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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.