Team

Paul Hanraets

CEO and Founder/Partner Gambitious

Paul Hanraets has been a creative entrepreneur since 2002 when he co-founded Red Road Media, a media agency specializing in video games. Successful projects undertaken by Red Road include: Benelux’s largest annual game event Gamexpo, the TV show GAME FACTS broadcasted by TMF/MTV and the freely distributed game magazine Games Guide. In 2008 Paul founded Cloud Castle Interactive and was involved in the development of smaller game projects, which further awakened his passion for the creative industry. As an immediate result, Paul founded EPIC TALES, a developer of interactive storybooks for IOS, and GAMBITIOUS an equity- based crowdfunding platform dedicated to the games industry.

Andy Payne

Founder/Partner Gambitious | CEO Mastertronic Group 

Andy Payne is an experienced computer and video games professional of 27 years. In 1988, Payne formed games production company, The Producers, and in 1997 he founded Just Flight, a flight simulation company.  Both companies still exist as part of The Mastertronic Group, of which Andy is CEO. Mastertronic is a multi-format video games publisher active in both packaged goods and digital. Andy started Get Games in 2009, which is an independent digital distribution platform, and also leads the NESTA initiated games developer consortium, AppyNation.  Andy is also chairman of UKIE, sits on the BAFTA video games committee, and was a founder and chairman of games industry charity GamesAid and has just recently been re-appointed as a trustee. Andy was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in December 2012 for services to the computer and video games industry.

Harry Miller

Founder/Partner Gambitous | Founder/Partner Devolver Digital

Harry Miller has more than two decades of experience in leading teams to build new companies and is currently a founder of Gambitious. Miller is also a founder and partner of Devolver Digital, a curator and promoter of exquisite games working on the fringe of modern video game culture. With a focus on business development and deal negotiations, Miller has built several successful companies from the ground up and enjoys forging strategic partnerships for quick and aggressive growth to enable new companies to compete on a global scale. Most recently, Harry served as President and Head of Development for Gamecock Media Group, and before that Gathering of Developers (GoDGames).  

Mike Wilson

Founder/Partner Gambitous | Founder/Partner Devolver Digital

Mike Wilson is an accomplished entrepreneur and a dogged champion/devotee of the independent artist movement.  For more than a decade, Wilson has dedicated his career to bridging the gap between the business and art communities in creative and lucrative ways for their mutual benefit. Co-founding and working as an executive at some of the most high profile companies in the video game industry, Wilson and his business partner Harry Miller, have unabashedly fought for artists’ rights in an industry growing at a faster pace than any in entertainment history. Mike was previously CEO and Head of Marketing for both Gamecock Media Group and Gathering of Developers (GoDGames).