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Simkiss was responsible for building up one of the biggest games networks in the world – Xbox Live Gold – as business manager for two years, before jumping ship to Sony last October to become senior manager for PlayStation Plus. Alongside three colleagues, she also helped form the Women of …

Romanos began working in games in 2008, after graduating from university. Setting up development studio Remode with fellow graduate Martin Darby, Romanos was CEO for six years, building a studio of 20 people and creating games for a range of clients. In 2014, Romanos and Darby decided to close Remode, …

After a stint at Codeworks and becoming founder and conference director for GameHorizon, in 2011 Cunliffe became MD of events firm Secret Sauce. Known for her development of innovative and detailed events, as well as skilled management of exhibitions, product launches and dinners, Cunliffe is known for leading the way …

Fearnley cut her teeth in the games industry promoting the computer games trade show ECTS and the consumer electronics exhibition Live in the late 1990s through to the early 2000s. From there, she dipped out of the games sector for three years, heading up a team at events firm Centaur …

Starting out making Quake conversations as part of her university studies, Marsh broke into the industry with a role at Sony’s Camden Studio working as a junior game designer on PS1 games. Marsh is proud of working on big titles like Tomb Raider Anniversary and Alien: Isolation, but says she …

Lavers Mallet joined the games industry after graduating business school at MIT Sloan. With previous work in enterprise software for the financial industry and strategy consulting, she had always had a side interest in theater production and working with creative teams generally. Driven by this interest, Lavers Mallet then joined …

Cross’ games career started in 2004, when she joined Blitz Games in Leamington to establish and lead their ‘People Strategy’. More than 10 years later she is still passionate about the industry and developing people. From the outset of her career, Cross was hooked by what attracts and retains most …

Charu Desodt is a senior producer at Microsoft’s Lift London Studio and was recognised as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2014. Her career to date has been characterised by games that innovate and challenge industry norms. She independently created the prototype that evolved into the hit PS2 and PS3 series …

After an education in politics, multimedia and communication, supplemented by a late-blooming interest in games that began with the first PlayStation, Marchal joined Quantic Dream as junior game designer on Fahrenheit in 2003. Marchal is very proud of all the games she has worked on since at Quantic Dream, including …