RE: Codemasters22 Jun 2020 14:13
NED - Mike Hayes.... Mike brings more than 30 years video games industry experience to our team. He spent eight years at SEGA, latterly as CEO of SEGA Europe and America. For 5 years prior to SEGA, he was Sales and Marketing Director on the Board of Codemasters, the award winning British developer and publisher of high quality racing games.
NED - Derek Wise....Derek joined Bidstack as Non Executive Director in 2019. He is a highly experienced software technologist who was Chief Technology Officer of Grapeshot prior to Oracle’s acquisition in 2018. Derek is now VP of Contextual Intelligence with Oracle Data Cloud.
Advisors -
Andrew House... served as CMO, Co-CEO and group CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) Europe before leading as President and Group CEO of SIE Inc between 2013-2017.
Will Kassoy - He previously served as the CEO of AdColony, a video advertising platform reaching over one billion consumers globally. Before AdColony Will was the Senior Vice President of Global Brand Management at Activision Blizzard for 13 years.
Bryan Neider - He became a Bidstack advisor in October 2019 and brings more than 25 years of leadership experience from his time with Electronic Arts (EA).
Jonathan Epstein - Founder and CEO of GameSpot, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Media for IGN Entertainment and President of Omek Interactive. He also served as CEO of Double Fusion, an in-game advertising company.
Joel Livesy - Joel is the Director of Partnerships, EMEA, at major digital advertising business The Trade Desk. He joined our Advisory Board in 2019 to offer expert insight into the programmatic advertising landscape. He oversees The Trade Desk’s supply-side strategy and activation across EMEA, working with both local and global partners on strategic development.
Pete Beeney - Pete adds 17 years experience to our advisory group. He has worked across print, out-of-home, and e-commerce, most recently developing Spotify’s global partnership with advertising giant WPP.
Ian Hetherington - has over 30 years experience as an entrepreneur, founder and investor in the video game and digital sectors. In 1985 he co-founded the video game developer and publisher, Psygnosis. The business was acquired by Sony in 1993 which saw Ian appointed as the Joint Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Then there`s all the Department Leads, and the Tech Leads in Riga.
lootgaloot, maybe this shower of wannabe knownothings have had it wrong all along, and Bids don`t do anything that developers can`t do themselves.
Well I`ll be blowed, and there was me thinking Bidstack were developing a start up `net new` adtech company for native in-game programmatic advertising!