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Maria, Executive Producer & Co-Founder at Team from Earth With over 10 years in game art outsourcing, Maria specializes in production setup, studio operations, and client partnerships She has led teams on titles like Dead Space (2023), Apex Lege......

Chris Wood is the co-founder and CEO of Tanglewood Games, a leading Unreal Engine external development studio based in his home town of Hartlepool, UK Since 2017, Chris has grown Tanglewood Games into a world-class engineering provider, working on ma......

With a decade of expertise in both people and project management, including the last seven years at EA, Steve has extensive experience in fostering collaboration, building influence, and driving results with both direct and indirect reports He unders......

Started his career working as an artist in an Outsourcing studio in Mexico where he got the chance to work on several indie and AAA titles across different platforms and engines Then moved to Europe where he has worked as an Producer/Outsource Manage......

Tina Merry is a seasoned game industry leader with over 20 years of experience shipping titles across platforms and managing global, distributed teams—including more than a decade at Electronic Arts As CEO of Simply Sweet Games, she is dedicated to......

With over six years in the gaming industry, Abigail began her journey as part of the XDS team This experience ignited her passion for fostering relationships between developers and service providers In 2022, she joined the External Development Intell......

Jacqueline Clarke builds games by first building the teams behind them For more than a decade in external development she has led cross-continental groups – spanning AAA to indie projects - ensuring artists, engineers, and producers stay aligned on......

Curtis Cherrington is a veteran of the video game industry with deep expertise in external development, having led strategic partnerships at EA, THQ, Disney, Midway, and now Virtuos He specializes in scaling global production pipelines and building e......

Leah Hoyer is the founder and CEO of Level Headed Games, where she and the distributed team are creating an innovative cooperative online video game Prior to her new venture, Ms Hoyer was GM and Vice President of Creative for Wizards of the Coast’s......

Yann Le Tensorer is Vice President of Technology at Room 8 Group, bringing 30 years of experience in developing games, engines, studios, and companies He was Lead Programmer of the first two original Rayman games at Ubisoft, co-founded and served a......

Sloane has spent her entire 'adult' life working in video games With a passion for creature design and a dual degree in communications and fine art, she started in business development for external dev studios straight out of college After moving fro......

Creative entrepreneur and strategic leader with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams I founded VOLTA and spent nearly two decades growing it into a global reference in game art, leading to its acquisition by Keywords Studios T......