Claire Hungate is President and COO. In this role, Hungate oversees the organisation’s global business strategy and operations. She leads planning efforts behind TL’s expansion, acquisitions and new revenue streams, and provides oversight for the company’s ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Before joining Liquid, Hungate spent 20 years establishing and redeveloping entertainment and media businesses focused on content-driven audience engagement. Previous posts include CEO of Warner Bros. TV Production UK, CEO of Brave Bison PLC and COO of Shed Media PLC. She is an independent director of games publisher Avalanche Studios Group and Chair of production music library, The Nerve.

Shahar​ ​Sorek is the Chief Marketing Officer at Overwolf, the guild for in-game creators. Built for creators by creators, Overwolf is the all-in-one platform that enables creators to build, distribute, and monetize in-game apps and mods. With over 12 years of experience in the games and technology industry, Shahar has founded and managed leading startups including 7 Elements Studios, a game studio specializing in massive-multiplayer-online strategy games. Prior to joining Overwolf, he was CMO at Spacemesh, where he led branding efforts, go-to-market strategies, and product marketing execution. Shahar has also held advisory positions at GK8, Flytrex and Treebute.io, where he shaped the narrative and strategy of the venture with a focus on the go-to-market audience and the companies’ investors. In his past, Shahar worked as a creative producer and actor in Hollywood and Israel and is a former five-time Israeli national champion in Taekwondo.

Kelly is often described by many as the heart of Alliance and her passion for esports is unparalleled. After joining Alliance as a player manager in 2013, today she is the CSO of the company and has more than a decade of global industry experience. Being community, player and sponsor driven she truly has a heart for esports and the things that keep our industry working. She is a woman that never gives up until the goal has been reached.

Lisa Hau serves as COO/Executive Director of Bidstack, a technology platform that brings together the lucrative advertising and gaming industries. Since joining in 2020, the company has scaled rapidly across the UK, Latvia and the US. Her role spans commercial, people, fundraising and corporate development. She previously led investor relations at WPP a global agency holding group and was an equity analyst at US investment bank Jefferies, covering the media and technology sectors. Lisa graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney in 2006 and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Heather Dower is the Founder and CEO of the creative marketing agency, Hotdrop. Who specialize in engaging digital demographics across multiple mediums across gaming, esports and lifestyle. Heather became MCV’s 30 under 30 in 2021 following the huge success with the growth and clientele Hotdrop have garnered within their first years. Competitive at heart, Heather has always pushed herself to excel & grow within the industry leading her to set up Hotdrop in late 2019. Starting her journey in gaming as a streamer in early 2011, Heather quickly learned how to optimise a personal brand and developed expertise in the emerging market of esports & gaming influencers by becoming a successful brand influencer and esports broadcaster. She cemented her broadcasting skills by becoming the Producer and Host of the world’s first daily esports news show ‘The Daily Download’ broadcasting live in 55 countries. Joining ESL UK in 2018, Heather applied her industry experience in her role as the UK’s Marketing Director. She led the marketing and creative teams through various leading global properties, brand activations, charitable events as well as pioneering new IP product development.  

After working for EA as communications director for Spain and Portugal, Mario Fernandez became CEO of DUX Gaming in 2019. Since then, big names like Thibaut Courtois, DjMaRiiO or Borja Iglesias joined the board as investors and ambassadors. The club’s goal has always been to connect the real and virtual worlds through sports. DUX has become the first esports club in the world to buy a football club (DUX Internacional de Madrid) and the first in Europe to team up with the NBA to found a new franchise in the NBA 2K League.

Jon looks after amateur esports competitions in EMEA across Riot’s full portfolio of games.

Rory is a Communications Strategist for The Story Mob – the world’s leading communications agency for gaming culture. During his time at the Mob, Rory has worked with a number of leading brands and orgnaisations in the industry, including Riot Games League of Legends Esports in Europe, Dreamhack Sports Games, Roland-Garros eSeries and Fnatic. He has a keen interest in esports’ broadcast rights, partnerships, and health and performance. His expertise spans communications strategy and implementation, media relations and storytelling, issues management and messaging development. Before moving into the competitive gaming industry, Rory began his career working in the sports industry, which gives him a deep understanding of the intersection between esports and sports.

Neil Johnson is the newly created VP & Managing Director, Gaming and Esports for HPN Global. HPN Global is a global site selection and meetings management company. At HPN Global, Neil’s responsibilities include identifying and securing site selection and meetings management opportunities, overseeing marketing and promotional activations, managing partnerships and maintaining visibility and awareness for HPN Global in the gaming and esports industries. Most recently Neil led Events DC’s esports business development efforts and helped to establish Events DC as an emerging destination in this fast-growing sector of competitive video-gaming. Neil established a relationship with The Game Gym that produced several joint K-12 esports programs featuring TED style talks on key topics, educational panels and competition in various esports titles. Neil also secured The Esports Insider’s only domestic US educational esports conference (ESI Washington DC), co-founded a DC/MD/VA based collegiate esports conference (Mid-Atlantic Esports Conference) featuring 15 local colleges and universities and established a partnership with the USO’s Gaming Division for quarterly live events at reciprocating USO and Events DC properties in the area. Prior to Events DC, Neil represented MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas as an industry thought-leader in the meetings and conventions industry. At MGM Resorts Neil was responsible for managing and developing industry relationships with key players like: Activision Blizzard, Twitch, ESL, Dreamhack, NBA2K League, US Army Esports, the Drone Racing League, the Esports Business Summit, and the Esports Travel Summit. Prior to employment with MGM Resorts, Neil held several positions at the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the Tropicana Las Vegas – a DoubleTree by Hilton. A resident of Las Vegas, NV, Neil received a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Business Administration (emphasis in Sports Marketing) from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Neil is a recipient of the Connect 2018 GameChanger Award and serves on or has served as a board member on the XLive Esports Summit Customer Advisory Board, the Esports Business Summit Advisory Board, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show Insight Advisory Group and the PCMA Southwest and Pacific Chapter (where he served as President in 2017). Neil and his girlfriend Erin have a daughter named Layla.

Ólafur started his career in gaming at CCP Games in Iceland before moving to Riot Games in Dublin where he worked on various esports and competitive products. In 2018 Ólafur moved back to Iceland and started the Icelandic esports association in an effort to build the Icleandic esports ecosystem. Today over 3% of kids in Iceland train esports and more than 10% of the country tunes in to local esports content regularly. Late 2021 Ólafur started his own company, the Esports Coaching Academy, with the goal of exporting all the knowledge developed in Iceland over the past 4 years and assisting organizations and countries all over the world in developing their own esports ecosystems.

Experience, concept and show creator with 15+ years of experience with esports, gaming and conceptual work across content, digital and live experiences. Co-Creator of the global esports tournament IP, BLAST Pro Series now called BLAST Premier, and with concepts built across the biggest games in the world, such as; Fortnite, Counter-Strike, FIFA, Dota2 and Valorant.

Mark Broom has worked at Intel for 12 years in a range of roles and for the past 5 years he has been a UK Consumer Marketing Specialist. His main areas of focus are the Gaming & Esports audiences in the UK alongside other consumer segments. He is responsible for planning and executing direct marketing activities focused on increasing preference for Intel within these areas.

Augusto Martinez Reyes is 37 years old and was born in Argentina, where he studied. He graduated in Business Administration and Management at the University of Buenos Aires. His career spans 16 years, and he started his professional path in Teleperformance Argentina in 2005. Since then, he has had several roles within the group, in different countries, such as CEO of Teleperformance Spain and Teleperformance Chile, as well as several C-level positions, before he took his current position as CEO of Teleperformance Portugal, in March 2021. He is married and has a two-year-old son, as well as two dogs that he brought from Madrid.

Becky is the Senior Partnerships Manager at NSE (National Student Esports), the official body of university esports & the largest grassroots gaming community in the UK. She manages the activations and relationships of NSE’s partners such as Intel, Barclays, Monster Energy, PCSpecialist and Genshin Impact. Becky joined the NSE team in April 2020 originally as the Social Media and Community Manager and has previously worked in a variety of graphic design and marketing roles.

Head of ISFE Esports at the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE). Previously, Sergi co-founded and was Public and Corporate Affairs Vice President at LVP – Liga de Videojuegos Profesional and chair of the International Esports Chair at Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM).

Dr. Joey Gawrysiak is the Director of Esports and a Professor of Esports at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. A former competitive gamer in college, Dr. G started the esports competitive teams in 2018, which now consists of 8 varsity game titles and over 60 students competing in the Esports Arena at Shenandoah University. He wrote one of the first esports curricula in the world with academic programs and certifications across the field of esports at the undergraduate and graduate levels of study. In 2019, Gawrysiak co-founded EDGE consulting with two partners to consult professional and academic entities on a variety of esports implementation strategies. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) as well as the Board of Advisors for the North American Scholastic Esports Federation, while also being named the NACE Program Director of the year in 2021.

Ed Tomasi has over 20 years of esports and operational experience. A former senior executive at ESL Gaming, Ed is currently the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Subnation Media, a content and experience platform that celebrates the culture gaming and lifestyle of esports. Ed leads Subnation’s esports advisory services team, which develops and executes strategies for government-funded destination marketing organizations looking to build or grow their esports ecosystem, and advises educational institutions, facility owners and property developers on how to accommodate the demands of esports programs for the now and next. Most recently, Ed helped write a legislative bill for the State of North Carolina (NC Esports Grant Fund) which was signed into the State’s budget and is the first statewide program of its kind in the United States, committing over $30m USD towards esports and gaming initiatives. Ed also serves as a founding member and Co-Chair of the Greater Raleigh Esports Local Organizing Committee in his home state of North Carolina.

Dominic Sacco is the editor and founder of Esports News UK, an online publication set up in late 2015 covering the local League of Legends scene and, in early 2021, he began offering a full esports consultancy service. He previously worked as head of content at the British Esports Association and editor of B2B tech publication PC Retail.

Mo Isap is the Founder and CEO of IN4 Group, headquartered at MediaCityUK, Salford. He holds an MBA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management and the Royal Society of Arts.

IN4 Group is a skills, innovation and start-up services provider that specialises in supporting businesses with the training, communities, networks and advice they need to scale and enhance their innovation ecosystems. The Group has now established itself as one of the UK’s leading innovation and technology hub operators.

IN4 operate HOST, the Home of Skills & Technology, one of the North West’s most established innovation hubs, based at MediaCityUK, formerly known as The Landing. It offers five floors of innovation services, training and facilities, support for people and businesses alike, from start-ups and SMEs through to enterprise and the public sector.

Mo is Founder of Skills City, one of the largest technology bootcamp operations in the country. 

He scaled his first business, MPG, to one of the largest independent digital print companies in the UK and was listed in the Financial Times 100 fastest growing UK companies. Throughout his career, Mo has also started and scaled several successful university spinouts and social enterprises.

Latterly, Mo was Group Director at Hobs Plc where he led group strategy and their 3D operations. In the space of 4 years, Hobs established itself as one of the UK’s leading Prop-tech businesses, providing 3D printing, 3D laser scanning and Immersive solutions.

He is Founding Director, Trustee and Vice Chair of STAR Academies, a leading Multi Academy and Free Schools Trust, operating over 30 schools across the country. Ranked over the past two years as the best performing Multi Academy Trust in the country, all the Trust’s Free Schools are rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

Mo is also a Board Director of the Career & Enterprise Company, which was established in 2015 to help link schools and colleges to employers, to increase employer engagement for young people and provide high-quality activities where they are most needed.

Previously, Mo was Co-chair of the Greater Manchester LEP (Local Enterprises Partnership).

Spike is a games industry and esports professional with experience building production and business infrastructure across three continents and driving large, multi million dollar revenue pipelines. Spike is Venture Director for Hiro Capital a €100 million venture capital fund investing in the innovators of the future.