Michael is the founder of IGS and has over 35 years experience in front-line video game development and publishing from within 2000AD, Marvel, Sega, Square Enix, Epic Games and various others.

He has worked extensively in business development and sales and has built multiple projects on original and licensed intellectual property from comic books, TV and film.

Titles include Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham, Aliens, Akira, Tomb Raider 2, Deus Ex, 300, Star Trek, Life Is Strange mobile and many more. More recently he was Senior Licensing Manager EMEA at Epic Games, enabling Indie developers with UE4/5 custom licenses and general BizDev services.

For IGS, he currently works on world domination. Like Q from Star Trek he pops in and out with good advice... or not.

 

Hugo is an entrepreneur with close to 30 years of experience in the videogame industry. He started his videogame career as a programmer on console titles and in 2002 founded Humagade. That company produced hundreds of mobile games based on high-profile licenses such as Madden, Mickey Mouse, Star Wars, Family Guy and The Olympics (Turino and Beijing). After selling his stake in what was then one of the 10 fastest growing company in Canada in 2010, he started to mentor videogame entrepreneurs and also provide investment and consultation services to a few select companies. Hugo has literally closed hundreds of development deals over his career.

 

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