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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nacho

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

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

Miikka Lindgren

VP of Business Development, Rovio

Jayvian

Jayvian Hong

Senior Commercial Associate, Miniclip

Ken

Ken Go

Founder, DECA Games

Alexis

Alexis Boutonnet 

Project Manager Team Lead, Altagram

Laura

Laura Strusch

 Games Merchandising Manager, Google Play

Nic

Nicolas Lux

Product Marketing Manager, Google Play & Android, Germany

Dima

Dmitri Martinov

Head of Google Play Apps & Games, Russia & Central and Eastern Europe 

Vitaly

Vitaly Tumanov

Product Marketing Manager, Google Play & Android, Russia

Darya

Darya Rubashna

Gaming Content Partnerships CEE, YouTube

Adi

Adi Haddad

Business Development Manager Middle East & Africa, Google Play

Laszlo

Laszlo De Maeyer

Gaming Growth Manager