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Speakers’ corner
Between them, they have hundreds of years’ experience in reshaping interactive entertainment – and have generated billions of dollars along the way. Here’s a guide to the key speakers at London Games Conference 2010
Heiko Hubertz Founder & MD, Bigpoint
Phil Harrison Co-founder & General Partner, London Venture Partners
Heiko Hubertz is the founder and managing director of Bigpoint, which has offices in Hamburg, Germany and San Francisco. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, Bigpoint has become the world’s largest portal for browser games and ranks among the top three gaming portals worldwide. Some 390 employees from 35 nations make up the Bigpoint team, offering a range of browser- based games that are enjoyed worldwide by well over 150 million registered players and growing. Hubertz’s goal is for browser games to compete against the quality previously only attainable through console or PC games.
Phil Harrison is co- founder of London Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in and supporting
entrepreneurs in the web, mobile, social and cloud game sectors. He served as a
member of the board at Atari from 2008 to 2010 and as president of Worldwide Studios at Sony Computer Entertainment where he was part of the senior leadership team that launched PlayStation from 1992 to 2008. Harrison was the head of product development at Mindscape from 1989 to 1992 and prior to that worked as a consultant game designer and graphic artist.
Shuji Utsumi CEO & Co-founder, Q Entertainment
Floris Jan Cuypers Business
Development Director, Spil Games
Coming from the Sony Corporate team, Shuji has long been at the cutting edge of games. He was one of the founding members of Sony Computer
Entertainment America, and later held positions at Sega America heading a product development team. He was a Sega Enterprises executive director, and a
managing director of Disney Interactive Asia Pacific. That was all before co-founding Q Entertainment. He has produced games such as Crash Bandicoot(SCEA), Sakura Wars(Sega), and Kingdom Hearts (Buena Vista Games). He is a Hitotsubashi University and a Wharton MBA graduate.
Floris Jan Cuypers heads up Spil Games’ global business development department, which includes new product incubation, mobile and micropayment products as well as corporate development and strategic partnerships. He started his career as a strategy consultant before taking on various marketing and
business development functions at YouTube for Google, and the Philips Electronics. Spil Games owns and operates a global family of
websites dedicated to online games.
Ben Cousins General Manager, Easy (EA)
Ben Keen Chief Analyst, Screen Digest
Ben Cousins is the General Manager of Easy, a new EA
business unit based in Stockholm. This group works 100 per cent on cutting-edge free online games, with Battlefield Heroes, Battleforgeand Lord of Ultimaalready live and several new titles in development. In his 11 year career in the games industry, Cousins has concentrated on digitally delivered titles, making key contributions to PlayStation Home, Battlefield 1943and many others.
Ben Keen has been instrumental in
building Screen Digest into the world’s premiere research company focusing on the media and
entertainment space. Screen Digest has become a primary source of market analysis and insight for many of the biggest communications corporations in the US, Europe and Asia- Pacific. Under Keen’s management Screen Digest has grown from 13 specialist analysts in 2003 to over 50 in 2010.
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