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Development Team

• Chairman & CIO: Gobion Rowlands
• MD & CEO: Klaude Thomas
• Creative Director: Ian Roberts
• Technical Director: Matt Harvey
• Scientific Advisor: Hannah Rowlands
• Lead Developer: Sam Morris
• Developer: Robin Tregaskis
• Developer: Richard Falconer
• Lead Artist: Carla Rylance
• Office Manager: Amy O'Neil
• Office Manager & PA to the Chairman and MD: Natalya Dyer

• Non-Exec Director: Keith Malcouronne
• Business Development: Toby Stone
• Public Relations: Stuart Rowlands

• Professor Diana Liverman
• Dr Cameron Hepburn
• John Kroeger
• Suzanne Seggerman
• Dr Pamela Hartigan

• Artist: Jon Hodgson

Gobion Rowlands is the Chairman and co-founder of Red Redemption Ltd - the very successful Oxford based independent developers of socially positive computer games that brought climate change to the international gaming marketplace. Gobion’s environmental gaming industry expertise has led him to be appointed a “Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts” (FRSA) in 2008, a “Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society” (FRGS) and a "Fellow of the Royal Institution" (FRI) in 2010 and an ‘in demand’ speaker and writer on numerous subjects including serious computer games, social enterprise, climate change and communication. He also spent a year as an Affiliate Researcher of Sustainability and Communications for the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University and recently lectured at the Skoll School of Social Enterprise and the University of the Creative Arts.

Under Gobion’s guidance Red Redemption has won a number of awards and grants including a UK government Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) "Smart Innovation Award", a UK government Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) "Climate Challenge Award". He was also nominated for a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award in 2009.

Prior to Red Redemption his career has included senior production and project management roles for Lycos-Bertelsmann as Producer, Gameplay PLC as Senior Producer and Project Manager for Wireplay, and Arena Technik as Senior Producer operating the Wireplay Service. He has consulted on projects for the UK Government e-Envoy’s office, the British Council and the Soros Foundation and the former UK Department of Trade and Industry.

A graduate of the University of Westminster with a BSc in Psychology and currently working on his Masters in Science and Society at the Open University, Gobion is the son of Welsh born music producer, manager and publicist Jonathan Rowlands, and his Swedish model mother, Gunilla. Gobion’s early days were filled with trips back to his mother’s homeland where his grandfather filled his mind with stories of heroic Nordic sagas which fueled his early interests in mythology and creative role playing games.

New Zealand born Klaude Thomas took over as Managing Director and CEO of Red Redemption in 2008 following a series of highly accomplished career positions as a Game Designer, Lead Designer, Producer and Managing Director for some of the leading gaming studios in Europe. Prior to joining Red Redemption he was Managing Director (MD) of Eidos Studios (formerly SCi) Hungary - a 40 person studio which he established for Eidos for the purpose of delivering Battlestations to the marketplace. Battlestations, featuring the Battle of Midway, is an action-strategy game played on Xbox360 and PC’s which reached #1 in the United Kingdom game charts selling over 500,000 units.

While at SCi, Klaude worked as Producer on the licensed titles Futurama and Four-Four-Two. This followed working as a Producer with Creative Assembly, contributing design work to Mongol Invasion (a successor to Shogun: Total War) and Medieval: Total War. Earlier in his career he was Lead Designer on Formula One 2000 for Electronic Arts which also reached #1 in Europe and was listed #6 in the Top 10 racing games of all time for Sony’s PlayStation. His first job in the UK was with Sony Psygnosis, heading a design team across multiple products.

Games for which Klaude has been Lead Designer, Producer or MD have sold over 2 million units to-date, conservatively generating an estimated $40m-$50m in gross income. His overall production knowledge coupled with such a financially successful marketing track record make him the ideal catalyst to manage Red Redemption’s “Climate Challenge” series into the 2010 worldwide launch.

Klaude was born on the North Island of New Zealand and is descended from a long line of Welsh and English farmers and like many New Zealanders has some Maori blood in his ancestral tree. He studied history, anthropology and political Science at Auckland University for four years before leaving to pursue his interest in game design and is proud that his native country has committed to specific emissions reduction targets.

Ian Roberts is one of the UK’s up and coming Creative Directors and Lead Game Designers having successfully programmed both “Climate Challenge,” which debuted on the BBC’s web site BBC.com in 2005 and “Operation: Climate Control” which received its debut launch in July 2007 at Britain’s historic House of Commons. Ian is a native of Durham transplanted to Oxford with experience across a wide range of new media forms including award-winning video production and editing to 3D Graphics and website programming. These skills are combined with an in-depth background in media, film, literature and cultural research in the forms of academic study, writing, lectures and teaching. His “Guide to Media Editing” has been highly praised within the industry and is considered a classic resource. Ian is also credited with devising Red Redemption’s brand “Makes You Think.”

While acting as Lead Games Designer for Red Redemption, Inc, Ian has produced extensive web portals including the ClimateX.org for Oxford University, 3D art and web consultancy for “Dickens World” in Chatham, Kent and directed and edited academic multi-media presentation films for University College London. Ian has a BA in English from Oxford University and has acted as a games industry consultant for the UK Department of Trade and Industry.

Matt co-founded Red Redemption. In addition to his Technical Director role and successful completion of the Smart Innovation Award. he was Lead Developer on Steel Law Online, before taking on the technical architect role for the company. Matt has been working with Imperial College London and University College London on several HPC and visualisation resources and computational steering of numerical simulations projects (a Grid computing project). Matt was also a research associate on the combinatorial chemistry project "Discovery of new functional oxides using novel techniques".

Hannah Rowlands is a graduate of the Environmental Change and Management Masters Degree program at the University of Oxford. With a broad understanding of environmental and policy issues from local to global level, and an emphasis on communicating these issues to a wider audience, her experience combines commercial, academic and charitable work. Previous projects include climateprediction.net, the world’s largest climate modelling project, in which members of the public download and run a full 3-D climate model on their personal computers, and a study of how people’s attitudes towards climate change are affected by playing computer games such as Red Redemption’s Climate Challenge Game.

Sam Morris is the Lead Developer for Red Redemption. He joined the company as a student intern in 2002 to work on Steel Law Online, before going on to become Lead Developer on Climate Challenge, Operation: Climate Control, Spindle and all other Red Redemption projects. Sam is a graduate in Computer Science from Manchester University, and a long time volunteer on numerous open source projects. Sam became Lead Developer on the Spindle Social Networking platform.

Robin has been on the team since 2007 as a core team developer on our games. He joined us from Broner Metals Solutions Ltd where he was a Senior Software Developer for seven years on a range of international and global software products. Prior to that position, Robin worked for the computer games company Fube Industries as a Playtester and Software Developer. He originally trained as a Micro-Biologist.

Richard joined Red Redemption in 2009 as a developer, and is now doing shader design and front-end code for our latest project. Richard has worked for as a php developer for a successful startup company, as well as been involved in many freeelance web design projects. He is a graduate from Warwick University where he co-developed the "Large Polygon Collider" physics engine for his final year project. He has specific interests in security and UI design.

Carla joined Red Redemption in 2009 and as lead artist uses her 2-D and 3-D talents to create the artisitic vision of our games and manage supplemntary assets from external artists around the world. Carla has worked as an artist in the games industry since 2006, producing paper and digital concept art, game assets, user interfaces and level design for titles such as “Micro Machines” and “Emergency Mayhem”.

Amy joined us in 2008 as Personal Assistant to Gobion and Klaude and Office Manager. She began training in game design under Klaude Thomas and now divides her time between Manager/PA and design support on Climate Challenge: 2010. Originally from Nebraska, Amy emigrated to the UK in 2006 to study towards an MA in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University, graduating with merit in 2007. Her background also includes film and new media, language, and global strategic studies. Her role within Red Redemption allows her to work closely with Gobion and Klaude on a number of areas including marketing and company strategy. In 2009 she began her training and switch over to games design bringing her knowledge of international relations to the work on summits.

Natalya joined Red Redemption in 2009 as PA to the Managing Director & Chairman, and Office Manager. Awaiting full biography and team photo.

Keith joined the Board in June 2009 to provide finance and investor expertise, bringing 10 years’ experience with KPMG and 15 as managing partner of a smaller professional services group. He is a Chartered Accountant, professional company director and active Business Angel investor.

Keith serves on the Boards of several businesses covering information technology, medical devices, product design & manufacturing, management consultancy, marine rescue and professional accountancy. He also provides ongoing strategic and corporate finance advice to other companies involved in bio-technology, software development and sustainable bio-fuels.

Keith is passionate about using business skills to bring physical and social transformation to the world’s poor and serves as a Trustee of World Vision, chairing its Board Finance & Audit Committee. He is also a Director of Transformational Business Network Growth Services Limited, vice-chair of the Audit Committee of the Church of England Archbishops’ Council and serves on several other charity Trustee Boards.

Toby worked as a dot.com entrepreneur, which led to his becoming an independent policy advisor to the UK Government. He worked on government support strategies for new businesses for the DTI, Cabinet Office (Office of the e-Envoy), and with various local and regional agencies. He then went on to work as a consultant for the Soros Foundation's Business and Economic Development Program, carrying out projects across South East Europe. He worked with a number of Government and Non-governmental agencies in the region, including the British Council and Government of Serbia & Montenegro before setting up his own NGO, based primarily in Serbia. He set up and ran a property fund in the Baltics, and is now focussing on private equity and the strategic development of a number of companies in the UK and Eastern Europe.

For the past 30 years Stuart Rowlands has managed national and international public relations, publicity and marketing campaigns for such clients as the Nobel Peace Institute (Peace Prize, Concert & Symposium), the Quebec Tourist Board, the Government of Ghana, Anheuser Busch, Bridgestone, Chevrolet, Colgate Palmolive, Honda (both US and international), Island Records, Philip Morris, J&B Scotch; and ITT.

Based in Los Angeles he is a veteran of more than 500 events in 22 countries. In addition to public relations he also produced the “Motorsports Explained” TV series which aired on ESPN and sold in 17 countries and produced, directed and wrote the syndicated weekly series “Pacific Sportsworld”. He was formerly Vice President in charge of global Public Relations for IMG, the world’s largest sports management company.

As Director of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) Diana coordinates the work of more than 100 interdisciplinary contract researchers and doctoral students who work primarily in the areas of climate, energy and ecosystems with a strong applied and policy focus. ECI hosts or co-hosts national and international projects that include the UK Climate Impacts Programme, the Oxford node of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the UK Energy Research Centre, and the ICSU Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) international project office. ECI also hosts a node of the James Martin 21st Century School for Oxford University.

Diana is currently on secondment with the University of Arizona, and has taken on an exciting new role as a member of the committee on "Americas Climate Choices".

Dr Cameron Hepburn is an environmental economist specialising in climate policy and long-term decision-making. He holds first class degrees in Law and Chemical Engineering from Melbourne University, an MPhil in Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford and a DPhil in Economics from Nuffield College (as a Rhodes Scholar)In addition to his teaching and research fellowships at Oxford, he is actively involved in public policy as a member of the DEFRA Academic Panel and as a founder of Vivid Economics. He contributed two background research papers to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

John Kroeger was co-head of the UK Government team of Business Relations Managers to the Computer Games Industry for the then Department of Trade and Industry, until June this year. He was a senior executive for Reuters Ltd in variously Denmark, Sweden and the UK for nearly twenty tears, including a period of secondment to the DTI during which he produced an Action Plan for Growth for the Digital Content Sector which led to the creation of the Digital Content Forum. It was during the creation of this plan that Mr Kroeger was also able to convince the UK government of the importance of the UK games sector and to develop ways for the government to engage with that sector.

Suzanne Seggerman is President and Co-Founder of Games for Change. Before G4C, Suzanne was a Director at NYC-based think tank Web Lab, where she oversaw a variety of cross-media projects. At Web Lab, she co-curated the show "Provocations" for the 2002 Florida Film Festival, the first national exhibition featuring digital games about social-issues. Her background in online media includes community-oriented interactive environments and the design of non-traditional games, which earned her awards from New Voices New Visions and Communications Arts. Before her involvement with new media technologies, she worked as a documentary film producer for PBS, including on Ken Burns/Stephen Ives PBS series The West and as Co-producer of Race For Life, a humanitarian aid and documentary film about Eastern Europe. Suzanne received a BA from Kenyon College and a MS from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Pamela Hartigan is the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School. She is also a Volans Founding Partner and Non Executive Director. From 2001 to 2008 she was the Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a Swiss-based organization focused on advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship nationally, regionally and globally. The Foundation is the second organization started by Klaus Schwab, the first being the World Economic Forum. Dr. Hartigan is the first Managing Director of the Foundation and has been responsible for shaping the strategy and operations pursued by the Foundation to achieve its mission.

Dr. Hartigan is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, holds a Masters degree in International Economics, a Masters in Education and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Her new book, entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets that change the World and co-authored with John Elkington, will be released in February 2008 by Harvard Business Press. She is a frequent lecturer on social entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate schools of business in the USA, Europe and Asia, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia School of Business in New York City. She serves on the Board of five social enterprises and advises many more.

Throughout her career, Dr. Hartigan has held varied leadership positions in multilateral health organizations and educational institutions as well as in entrepreneurial non-profits. She has been responsible for conceptualizing and creating new organizations, departments or programs across a variety institutional arrangements and multi-stakeholder platforms. In the area of health, Pamela headed up the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization (1999-2001); was Programme Manager and Area Co-ordinator for Applied Field Research in the Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the World Bank, WHO, and UNDP (1997-1999). Between 1990 and 1997, she worked in WHO’s Regional Office for the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as Chief of the Gender, Health and Development and Manager for Special Initiative in the HIV/AIDS Programme.

Jon Hodgson is a freelance artist living in Scotland. He’s been a full time freelancer for almost ten years, working in pen and paper gaming, computer games, on-line games, and television.

He has a degree in fine art from Nottingham Trent University, but this hasn’t prevented him becoming a successful freelance artist working internationally in a wide range of fields from book jackets to story boarding, packaging art for toys to character concepts for video games. Jon worked with Red Redemption in 2007 providing character design and artwork for Operation: Climate Control.

Jon has worked on properties such as Casualty, Bob The Builder, Dungeons and Dragons, and Warhammer Historical. He is currently writing a book on creating fantasy art. You can see more of Jon’s work at the imaginatively entitled www.jonhodgson.com .