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 Managing Director operating in the Gaming space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Dominic Grounsell
Managing Director – UK & Eire Sports Brands of Entain
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About Entain: Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.
Simon Windsor
Founder, Joint Managing Director of Dimension
Simon has been at the forefront of immersive technologies since 2011, launching several successful companies in AR and VR, and bringing state-of-the-art immersive production facilities to the UK. He is joint-head at immersive media company, Hammerhead, and at Dimension, a pioneering volumetric video capture studio and first Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture studio partner, focused on creating next generation virtual humans. Simon is also a director at TimeSlice Films, one of the UK’s leading multi-cam and capture solutions specialists, and prior to this he was part of the management team that launched AR technology platform, String. An award winning AR and VR producer, Simon has inspired and lead projects for companies including Disney, Nike, Sky, Audi, HSBC, Magic Leap and many more, and produced original VR titles including ABE and Syren.
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About Dimension: Revolutionary volumetric production studios for the creation of next generation digital humans, XR content and virtual production.
Sam Cooke
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Esports Insider
Sam Cooke heads up Esports Insider, an esports business news platform and events company based in London. Esports Insider is a part of SBC Global and runs B2B events including the ESI Forum Series, the ESI Super Forum and the Betting on Esports Conference
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About Esports Insider: Esports Insider is a platform which covers all news that is of interest to the industry.
Sean Murray
Managing Director of Hello Games
Hello! I’m the Managing Director here at Hello Games. I’m from Ireland originally but moved about a bit – including a few years in Australia growing up (apparently leaving me with a confused accent). My gateway computer was an Amstrad CPC, but I was really an Amiga boy from pretty early on. I wrote my first game when I was about six years old (it was a text adventure and it was unsurprisingly terrible). I tend to fall for arcadey, pure games that I can play with friends – classics are definitely Micro Machines, Mario Kart, Super Monkey Ball and Excitebike (I have a theory that I’m the greatest Mario Kart Battle player who has ever lived – unproven). My degree was straight Computer Science which generally frowned on anything games related. Becoming a game developer from there was definitely my dream job. I’ve worked bunch of places – before this I was a Tech Director at Kuju and worked lots of games including Burnout 3 and Black at Criterion as a Technical Lead.
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About Hello Games: Hello Games is a British video game development and publishing company based in Guildford, England.
Shum Singh
Managing Director & Founder of Agnitio Capital
Shum Singh is the founder and managing director of Agnitio Capital Limited
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About Agnitio Capital: Agnitio Capital is a fully authorised and regulated investment bank focused on digital media and games.
Jason Perkins
Managing Director of Curve Digital
Jason Perkins currently works as the Managing Director for Curve Digital. He previously worked at blue52 limited as the Director.
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About Curve Digital: Indie developer & publisher of fine video games.
Brandon Wu
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Markd
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About Markd: Markd is a gaming industry that focuses on providing competitive games.
Ben Mills
Managing Director of Desk Dragons Interactive Limited
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About : Desk Dragons Interactive builds globally recognized gaming IPs and brands for next generation platforms.
Ben Mills
Managing Director of Desk Dragons Interactive Limited
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About : Desk Dragons Interactive builds globally recognized gaming IPs and brands for next generation platforms.
