Thanks to all of you who came along to our latest Second Chance Tuesday event to hear a lively debate on the Future of Online Gaming. Gaming guru Alice Taylor led the discussions with a panel of industry experts including Toby Rowland (CEO of King.com), Klaas Kersting (CEO of gameforge.de) and Michel Cassius (COO Imagini).
Companies on the guest list included: Accel Partners, BBC, Betfair, Buildersite.co.uk Close Ventures, Cominded, Creative Capital Fund, Crowdstorm, The Daily Telegraph, Deutsche Bank, Doughty Hanson, Endemol Gaming, FF&P Private Equity, Fleming Media, Gala Coral, Glasses Direct, Index Ventures, Ingenious Ventures, Joost, Last.fm Liberty Global Investors, Mofo Games, Monumental Games, Naked Ventures, News International, Oxford Capital Partners, Oxygen Games, Play.com, Reuters, Seraphim Capital, Shopping.com. The Spectator, The Universal Music Group, The Money Gaming Corporation, and Yo Yo Games.
Angel TV's clips of the panel discussion. Individual interviews with panel members, Klaas Kersting and Michel Cassius will be posted soon.
Newspepper's interviews with attendees on the night.
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Toby Rowland
Toby Rowland is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the skill games site King.com. Prior to co-founding King.com in 2003, Toby was a shareholder and VP Sales & Marketing for the online dating service uDate.com. King.com hosted more than 80m games played in January 2007, and was the #1 fastest growing media company in the UK 2003-2005 (Media Momentum 2007).
Klaas Kersting
Klaas Kersting is the CEO of Gameforge, one of the worlds largest independent developers and publishers of browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Games The company launched in 2003 and has amassed over 40 million registered players and more than 6 million active players in 30 countries. Gameforge currently has 15 themed games in their portfolio catering to a wide variety of tastes such as sci-fi, vampires, Roman gladiators, pirates and mafia.
Michel Cassius
Michel Cassius has 20 years experience in Media, Technology and Games. After 8 years at Apple, Michel joined Electronic Arts to first develop their Publishing business in Europe and then to start EA.com. During this period, he managed one of the first MMOs, Ultima On-line. Michel joined the Xbox Division of Microsoft in 2001 for the launch of Xbox in Europe. In 2006, Michel joined Fun Technologies (Liberty Media) as MD for Europe. Michel is a co-founder of YoYo Games, one of the first Web 2.0 user generated Games business. He is also a Board Member of Funcom, a leading public MMO developer in Norway. Michel is currently COO of Imagini a UK based Internet startup that is changing the way consumers discover people, products, places, based on their personality.
Alice Taylor
Alice Taylor is the Commissioning Editor of Education Channel 4 Television. Alice Taylor has over a decade of experience working in new media, from developing Channel 4’s first website in early 1996 to more recently, Vice President of Digital Media for BBC Worldwide in Hollywood. In September 2007 Alice took up the role of Commissioning Editor, Education at Channel 4, focusing on pan-platform content for audiences aged 14-19. Alice founded the gamecentric blog Wonderland (www.wonderlandblog.com) and regularly writes about gaming in the international press. Wonderland was recently nominated for Best Non-Commercial Website or Blog in the MCV Games Media Awards.
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