Meet our speakers
Throughout the day you will have the chance to meet several Googlers working with mobile gaming in the region, successful local developers as well as some international developers who've already achieved success locally.
Chelsea Ono Horn
Managing Director, Pocket Gems Europe
Chelsea is a Director of Product at Pocket Gems spearheading the growth of Pocket Gems’ first international office in Barcelona. Most recently as the Product Lead for War Dragons in San Francisco, she managed a team of over 80 people and grew the product into a top grossing game. Chelsea has also worked on a number of casual games including Secret Passages, Runway Life, and Campus Life. Before Pocket Gems, Chelsea was a business intelligence analyst at Google and a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. She is a graduate of Harvard University and currently lives in Barcelona with her husband, dog, and cat.
Michael Escudero
Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships, FoxNext Games
Michael is Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships at FoxNext Games, the mobile, PC, and console games development and publishing division of Disney. His primary role is to act as the interface between internal game teams and external partners such as platforms, external development studios, and licensees among others. Prior to his current role he was in business development at 20th Century Fox, where he established partnerships with external game companies across the world to bring Fox TV shows and films to life through games.
David Mohr
General Manager, GAMEVIL COM2US Europe
Based in Berlin, Germany, David is currently managing marketing, community management and localization for GAMEVIL and COM2US in Europe, covering all of EMEA territories with a team of 40+ people. An industry veteran of 20 years, he has a solid background in gaming journalism and management. He reviewed games for Cybermedia and Heinrich Bauer Publishing, managed production and distribution for Nintendo and Playstation titles at ProSiebenSat.1 Media and spent several years in user acquisition as Director Advertiser Relations at GameGenetics.
Simon Haase
Content Creator & Influencer, ClayClaim
Meet Simon, known on YouTube for his channel ClayClaim. He's a German entrepreneur, filmmaker and game influencer that makes video game characters out of polymer clay and shows the process on his channel. As an influencer, Simon has worked for a variety of clients such as Audible, Kaspersky, Marvel, Netmarble, Plarium, Squarespace, and Wargaming. With over 1.8 million subscribers and 214 million views, he wants to inspire as many people as possible.
Tamzin Taylor
Head of Apps & Games, Western Europe, Google Play
Tamzin leads the Apps & Games Business Development team at Google Play in Western Europe. Her team helps apps and games businesses to find success on Android and Google Play. Prior to joining the Google Play team, Tamzin was the Head of Android Partnerships, Oceania. Pre-Google, Tamzin worked in the mobile industry for over 15 year leading internet & content services for Telcos, such as 3Mobile, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile in Australia and the UK.
Francesco Crovetto
Business Development Manager Western Europe, Google Play
Francesco is responsible for developing the ecosystem of Google Play Games in Western Europe. He is partnering with game developers to create the best user experiences, building player communities, and launching sustainable businesses on Google Play. Francesco has been working in the gaming industry for the past three years. He is specialized in using analytics to support developers growing their business in EMEA and Globally. Additionally he developed an expertise in optimization of Influencer Marketing for game developers. Before joining Google in 2016 he was working in Finance in London.
Ignacio Monereo
Business Development Manager Western Europe, Google Play
Ignacio works in business development for Android games in the European region. In his role, he provides strategic and tactical advice to mobile game developers across several areas such as product development, distribution and monetization of apps. Prior to joining the Android Apps and Games, he was a strategic partner manager in the Google AdSense and DoubleClick team, focusing on advertising monetization solutions for large publishers in both Spanish and Italian markets
Tobias Knoke
Head of Game Publishers EMEA, YouTube
Tobias leads partnerships with game publishers and eSports at YouTube in EMEA. He is responsible for growing their business through content strategies, creator partnerships and licensing. Tobias has been working in the gaming industry for the last two decades. Prior to YouTube, he was looking after Business Development for Google Play Games in Western Europe and advised gaming and tech companies on user acquisition at Google. Before joining Google in 2009 he was working on web game partnerships at AOL Germany and contributed as an editor to several online gaming portals.
In the second half of the day you will also meet more Googlers and external partnerns during 1:1 meetings to discuss your specific questions about expanding to the EMEA region.
Miikka Lindgren
VP of Business Development, Rovio
Jayvian Hong
Senior Commercial Associate, Miniclip
Ken Go
Founder, DECA Games
Alexis Boutonnet
Project Manager Team Lead, Altagram
Laura Strusch
Games Merchandising Manager, Google Play
Nicolas Lux
Product Marketing Manager, Google Play & Android, Germany
Dmitri Martinov
Head of Google Play Apps & Games, Russia & Central and Eastern Europe
Vitaly Tumanov
Product Marketing Manager, Google Play & Android, Russia
Darya Rubashna
Gaming Content Partnerships CEE, YouTube
Adi Haddad
Business Development Manager Middle East & Africa, Google Play
Laszlo De Maeyer
Gaming Growth Manager