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I (Andrew, CEO) grew up alongside the rise of technology and gaming. It has been an awesome journey, and I truly believe that being born in the early 90's was one of the best times ever. Being able to experience games as they've evolved over the last 30 years has been a great pleasure of mine.
However, over the last few years, myself and a lot of my friends have noticed such an influx of cheating, hacking, botting, and people trying to gain an unfair advantage in games. In multiplayer games, this ruins the experience for everyone.
There's been a perfect storm that's made gaming so much worse:
• Games have moved to free-to-play, removing all barrier to entry
• Social media has made cheats one search away, cheaper and more accessible than ever
• Competitive gaming breeds frustration, making cheats a tempting solution
• The streaming economy incentivizes "amazing content" by any means necessary
• Anti-cheat can’t win the fight by itself, especially if it doesn’t matter if cheaters are caught
This is why I set out on this journey to create a solution that would make gaming more fun for everyone today, but also, hopefully solve many of the issues with the online world.
How we behave online should matter. If somebody intentionally seeks to break the rules to have an unfair advantage over everyone else they should face a meaningful penalty. And anyone sexual towards children online should be removed forever.
PlaySafe ID fixes the issue of cheating, hacking, botting, and bad-actors. It makes gaming significantly more fair, fun, and safe for everyone - whilst retaining user's anonymity and protecting their data.
It's my hope that PlaySafe ID will always be the bastion for players that they deserve.
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 analytics. Ex-Director of Revenue at Nefta; Ad Network and player analytics.
Ben Dixon
CTO & Co-Founder
Data, DevOps, Systems Architecture. 9+ years working at Jagex, building systems and platforms to support games in an ever changing landscape. With a passion for player safety and anti-cheat, and being a gamer himself, he's distinctly aware of the issues the games industry faces and wants to build solutions that both gamers and developers love.
Will Pazos
Game & Customer Success
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.
Oz
Principal Architect
A passionate gamer and developer who loves building tools that make life easier for others. Enjoys story-based games and PvE/co-op multiplayer games. With 6+ years in the gaming industry and experience across diverse tech startups from ML/AI to healthcare, Oz focuses on creating software that's both powerful and intuitive, with a particular emphasis on user and developer experience.
Bryce Turner
Marketing Director
Was fortunate to have a Dad who 'got' technology. Started gaming on the Intellivision before upgrading to a Commodore 64. Currently playing through cyberpunk 2077.
20+ years in brand strategy and marketing.
Jonny Pout
Community Manager
Grew up in the 90's with playing pretty much every genre of game. A true addiction for competitive FPS and MMORPG's. Fond memories of playing split-screen fps titles and arguing with my friends about looking at each others side of the monitor. Truly was a different experience to what we have today.
8+ years in team management and community engagement.
Mihai Ciucu
Senior Developer
Previous tech start-up founder in the payments and identity space, with over 15 years of software engineering experience in areas ranging from high performance C++ development to building modern web platforms.
Andrei Grigorean
Senior Developer
Ex-Googler, Andrei has vast experience with algorithms and data structures. Silver medal winner at the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Andrei Carpen
Senior Designer
Designer, builder, question-asker. 10+ years shaping digital products for startups, scale-ups, and corporates — from slick mobile apps to gloriously messy dashboards that actually get used.
Behind-the-scenes fixer turning chaos into products people don’t curse at. Lived out of a backpack for years, designing from anywhere with decent Wi-Fi. When he’s not poking holes in product strategy or simplifying your 12-button UI down to 3, he’s probably sketching ideas he’ll never ship.
“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.