RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: MCV Special
A special edition of Ins and Out this month, as we chart the career courses of as many key MCV contributors as we could reliably track down. It’s the where-are- they-now you didn’t ask for, but are getting anyway
After working on CTW (Computer Trade Weekly) for 12 years, becoming editor at just 21, STUART DINSEY left in July 1998 to establish its rival MCV, which he edited until March 1999 before leaning more into his role as co-founder and MD of Intent Media. He left after Intent was sold to NewBay in 2012 and has been chairman of
Curve Games ever since. He has also had long stints heading up both Gamesaid and Ukie and is a longtime board director of League One club Stevenage FC.
LISA CARTER (nee Foster) was the deputy editor of CTW for four years before being tempted to jump ship and help establish MCV with Stuart Dinsey. Taking over as editor in April 1999, she was MCV’s managing editor and publisher for a combined 17 years, leaving to found Mimram Media in January 2015, of which she remains a director to this day (alongside her duties as Women in Games’ communications director).
Part of the so-called ‘Dream Team’ of CTW turncoats was ALEX MOREHAM (nee Jarvis), MCV’s first sales director. Alex was influential in numerous commercial deals, none more emblematic than the one that saw a giant MCV logo greet E3 attendees back in the glory days of both. These days Alex can be found bobbing around the seas that surround the Canary Islands, teaching folk how to sail yachts.
After five years as the finance director of Virgin Games and GT Interactive, HILARY COLE joined Stuart Dinsey to co-found MCV and become Intent Media’s finance director. She played a key role for many years aiding the company’s growth, plus acquisitions in markets such as toys, mobile, music and cycling, Hilary left swiftly after Intent was sold to Newbay, becoming
finance director of Curve. She is currently a partner in Janus FD, offering financial management support for companies in and outside the games business.
Making the move from CTW to MCV in August 1998 was veteran trade journalist DAVE ROBERTS, whom Stuart Dinsey says is the best writer he ever worked with. Credited as contributing editor in MCV’s early issues, Dave went on to take a lead role in MCV's business development efforts before joining Music Week, which Intent Media acquired in 2011. Currently he is the head of publishing
and partnerships at Music Business World – run by fellow ex-MCV writer Tim Ingham.
Passed up for the role of Edge editor,
OWAIN BENNALLACK joined the first iteration of the MCV team as the mag’s senior staff writer, impressing his bosses so much that despite an eagerness to go freelance, he was talked into becoming the first editor of Develop magazine in 1999, which he remained for the best part of a decade. After helping to establish the Develop conference, Owain
co-founded Steel Media, published
PockerGamer.biz and currently indulges his journalistic passion for investing.
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