Nick has worked in senior positions across the tech and games industry for more than 25 years and founded The Games Angels, a collective of industry veterans investing in and supporting early stage gaming companies, which has invested in 26 companies so far, and has Angel invested in Outright Games, Lightheart Entertainment, Ready Player Me,Formation Games, Cult, Flick, Included Games, Landmark, TruePlayers, Audiomob, Playmint & Magicave amongst others, as well as being named as UK Angel of the Year 2024.
Nick is currently Chair at Outright Games, a publisher of licensed games for children recently sold to a Private Equity company, Nick is also Chair at Coherence, a technology company supporting connected games; a Board Member at Adinmo, and in-game advertising and data platform and a Strategic Advisor at Payload Studios, developers of Terratech.
Nick helped grow and scale Improbable, a tech start-up that raised more than $600m, with backers including Andreessen & Horowitz, SoftBank and Netease, and helped take Sensible Object, a voice-control focused company to a trade sale to Niantic. Before that, he worked for 5 years at Crytek in Germany, managing their games development such as 'Crysis 3', 'Ryse', and 'Warface'. He also spent 9 years at Electronic Arts, working on games such as 'Battlefield', 'Black & White 2', 'Crysis', 'Timesplitters 3', and 'Freedom Fighters'.
He is on the board at UKIE (one of the UK Games industry bodies, is an Angel Ambassador for Creative UK and is a founder trustee with OKRE in their work linking research and entertainment. Nick is also on the Games London advisory board and was formerly a Trustee at BAFTA.
