The PlaySafe team
Andrew Wailes, CEO & founder
Love MMORPGs, ARPG, FPS, strategy, MOBAs, Battle-Royales, survival, and competitive. Particular love of extraction shooters.
10+ years in product, sales, marketing, ops, and business growth focusing on commercials.
Ex-VP at Metanomic; game economics and player behavioral analytics. Ex-Director of Revenue at Nefta; Ad Network and player behavioral analytics.
Ben Dixon, CTO & co-founder
9+ years Jagex leading data, dev ops and anti-cheat + player safety. Incredible tech leader with a specialism and passion for high-scale throughput and concurrency services that make gaming more fair, safe, and fun, for everyone.
Johnah Elbaz, Senior Developer
8+ years tech and project lead.
Ex facebook, dolby, volvo, Nuro AI, Misfits Gaming.
A part of 2 startup exits over $50m.
A man of few words who builds amazing things.
“The Stig”, anti-cheat lead
An expert in anti-cheat and infrastructure within AAA game studios and FAANG companies.
As a white-hat game hacker since 1999, this red and blue team player honed their skills in game series such as Quake, Half-Life, CS, TF, WoW, and more. Today, they are dedicated to democratizing large-scale, privacy-respecting solutions to modern technology challenges, such as multiplayer game deception. Their identity remains anonymous.
Iurii Semenov, Senior developer
10+ years in software development industry. Banking, healthcare, cyber security, gambling. Building, leading, coaching.
Used to be a whitewater kayaker but got a family and I’ve had enough of extreme for now.
Bryce Turner, Marketing Director
Was fortunate to have a Dad who 'got' technology. Started gaming on the Intellivision before upgrading to a Commodore 64.
20+ years in brand strategy and marketing. Leading teams in companies of 15 to 1500 people, delivering results for clients and businesses across numerous product categories.
Previously Head of Marketing Projects at Vendasta.
Jonny Pout, Community Manager
Grew up in the 90's with playing pretty much every genre of game. A true addiction for competetive FPS and MMORPG's. Fond memories of playing splitscreen fps titles and arguing with my friends about looking at eachothers side of the monitor. Truly was a different experience to what we have today.
8+ years in Team management and coaching, Recruitment, Community engagement and marketing.
Will Pazos, Advisor & friend
Previously Head of Data & Analytics at Misfits Gaming Group, co-owned by Miami Heat (NBA) & Cleveland Browns (NFL), top esports org globally. Managed all analysts within Sales, Marketing, Strategy, and Operations - main point of contact for Blizzard and Riot for reporting.
8+ years in business intelligence, product development, and go-to-market in the esports industry.