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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Video Games space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Vince Farquharson
COO of Bossa Studios
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About Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Steve Bainbridge
Chief Operating Officer of Dovetail Games
Steve is the Chief Operating Officer for Dovetail Games having joined the company in July 2010. Steve’s long career in the industry began in 1994, when he joined Electronic Arts as Finance Manager. Over the next 12 years at Electronic Arts he would take in a wide variety of roles which culminated in his appointment to COO for Northern Europe and Managing Director for EA’s Emerging Marketing, which included setting up new offices in Russia whilst managing Middle East, Greece, Turkey and other Export countries. In 2006, Steve moved Europe’s No.1 interactive entertainment retailer, GAME PLC, where he supported the Gamestation acquisition and integration, was responsible for the acquisition of the groups Czech Business and rolled out a number of other profitable Business Development initiatives.
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About Dovetail Games: Dovetail Games creates digital hobbies enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of passionate enthusiasts across the globe.
Gemma Brown
Chief Operating Officer of Dovetail Games
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About Dovetail Games: Dovetail Games creates digital hobbies enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of passionate enthusiasts across the globe.
Tim Sawyer
Chief Operating Officer of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Michelle Chuang
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer of Supersolid
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About Dazzle Rocks, Supersolid: Supersolid is a mobile games studio based in London, UK.
Simon Hade
Founder & COO of Space Ape
Simon is Co-founder & COO of mobile game developer Space Ape Games in London ($11m VC funding over 3 rounds, $55.8m investment by Supercell in 2017). Angel investments include game developers Gumbug Games, and music content creator platform Voisey. Past jobs include early product roles at Skype and Playfish (acquired by EA).
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Joanne Lacey
Chief Operating Officer of AdInMo
20 years’+ experience in marketing, commercial and operational roles in the mobile industry. COO at InGamePlay start-up AdInMo, Advisor at MEF and Chair of Trustees at the charity Make 2nds Count.
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About AdInMo: Immersive in-game brand experiences. Programmatic in-game advertising and monetization platform
Alex Zoro
Founder and COO of PixelToys
Alex loves games. He’s been playing games for as long as he can remember, even back before disk drives when you had to load from tape or type the entire game in yourself first by hand. Alex has been developing games for well over a decade, beginning his career at Rare before co-founding FreeStyleGames in 2002. Alex left FreeStyle in order to found Pixel Toys and use his console development experience to bring high quality entertainment experiences to a wider audience.
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About PixelToys: Pixel Toys is a developer and publisher of digital games and entertainment.
Estelle Lloyd
COO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Paul Porter
COO of Sumo Digital
Paul Porter is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sumo Group plc.
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About Sumo Digital, Sumo Group plc: Sumo Digital Ltd is an independent game development studio.
Chris Lawrence
Co-Founder & COO of CGHero
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Chris Mehers
Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Edge Case Games
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About Edge Case Games: Edge Case Games Battles fractured Spaces team-based 5v5 battles hinge on teamwork strategise, work together to dominate the battlefield.
