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Johnny Minkley Eurogamer TV
Kieran O’Neill Co-founder & CEO, Playfire
Johnny Minkley is an award-winning journalist who has been writing and speaking about video games for a decade, and playing them for over a quarter of a century. A veteran of consumer and business media, he has worked on numerous leading magazines and websites, and is a regular pundit across radio and TV and in the national press. Minkley is currently a games expert for BBC Radio 1, with regular appearances on The Jo Whiley Show, and editor of Eurogamer TV, producing and presenting video content for Europe’s leading independent gaming website, Eurogamer.
O’Neill’s Playfire automatically tracks game sessions and scores, recommends new games it thinks players would like and connects them with gamers all over the world. The firm is nacked by worldclass investors including the founders of Skype, Bebo and LoveFilm, David Gardner (EA/Atari) and Chris Deering (SCEE). Prior to Playfire, O’Neill founded one of the first video sharing websites which was acquired in 2007, and co-founded the largest independent PlayStation site,
PSU.com.
Jasper Smith Founder & CEO, PlayJam
Jasper Smith is a pioneer in interactive media and the chairman of General Entertainment and Technology Corp, a broad-based media group with assets in television, film and digital media including Static, PlayJam and Electra Entertainment. Throughout a career spanning 20 years, Smith has founded and developed a number of highly successful businesses that have been hugely influential on TV and digital media. In 1997, Smith established Static 2358 Holdings, owner of the world’s most successful interactive television company PlayJam, and Static Design – a multi award-winning TV design agency. A succession of recent deals with Apple, Sony, Samsung and online gaming platforms add to its well-
established network via millions of digital TV homes around the world and online.
David Reeves COO,
Capcom Europe
David Reeves joined Sony Computer
Entertainment in 1995 where his initial
assignment was to set up and manage SCEE (PlayStation) offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After overseeing the launch of PlayStation and firmly establishing the brand in Europe, Reeves moved back to the UK in 1999 to take up the position of senior vice president for sales and marketing. Over the past five years, as EVP pf marketing and sales, Reeves helped secure an 82 per cent market share for the PlayStation brand in PAL territories and had over 102 markets reporting to him. In January 2003 he was promoted to president and COO of SCEE and CEO in 2005. In December 2006 he was promoted to deputy president of SCEI in Tokyo. David retired from SCE in late 2009 and is now COO of Capcom EMEA, based in London.
Dave Perry Co-founder & CEO, Gaikai
David Perry was the founder and president of Shiny Entertainment for over 12 years and is one of the best- known games industry veterans. In 29 years, Perry has developed or programmed over 100 games across 29 video game platforms. All told, Perry’s games have totalled over a billion dollars in retail sales. Perry is the CEO and co-founder of
Gaikai.com, a company that’s developed a cutting-edge video game streaming technology that allows any Windows game or application to run in any browser with just one click.
Ed Vaizey Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries
Ed Vaizey was elected as the Member of Parliament for Wantage and Didcot in May 2005. In 2004 he became a political speech writer. Vaizey was Shadow Culture and Creative
Industries Minister 2006 to 2010.
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