who's in charge?

Peter Sullivan

Managing Director & Chairman

Peter is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant with extensive knowledge of the mobile and video games industries. He spent his early career in traditional industries working for Tetley's and Lever Brothers. In 1994 he made his first move into video games and spent more than six years at Liverpool based video games developer and publisher Psygnosis - a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe - working as Publishing Accountant and subsequently as Group Business Analyst.

He was instrumental in the set-up, design and implementation of the forecasting model and territory management reporting system for Psygnosis' European and US operations and was heavily involved in pricing and commercial evaluation of new projects.

Peter then moved to London to take up the role of European Financial Planning Manager at First Telecom plc before being appointed as Finance Director at iFone in Manchester, which was subsequently acquired by Glu.

He moved back to Liverpool as Director of Business and Commercial Services at FWL Technologies, a company engaged in the development and implementation of bespoke software systems for the logistics industry. FWL Technologies was acquired in early 2007 and Peter returned to the mobile games industry as Commercial Director of Telcogames.

Tim Peel

Legal & Business Affairs Director

Tim is a qualified solicitor having trained at Liverpool-based Brabners Chaffe Street Solicitors after studying law at the University of Liverpool and Chester College of Law. Tim made the move from private practice into industry in 1998 when he joined Infogrames United Kingdom Limited (now Atari UK) as Company Solictor. He was headhunted in 2000 and joined PC OEM bundling company, Vector OEM Content Limited, as Company Solicitor.

Tim moved into the mobile games industry in 2002 when he became Head of Legal at iFone Limited, a mobile games developer and publisher. He remained there for four years when iFone was acquired by US mobile games publisher Glu Mobile Inc. Prior to working at Energetic, Tim was Head of Legal at Telcogames Limited.

Ivan Davies

Director

Ivan is a veteran of the video games industry with 20 years experience and 72 games produced and developed to date. He started work at Special FX as an 8-bit artist and then moved on to working as a Producer at Ocean Software in Manchester in 1992. In 2001, he became the Head of Production for Infogrames and in 2003 moved to be Studio Head for Warthog.

In November 2004, Ivan returned to working in his home town of Liverpool, becoming a Senior Producer in Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's External Development Department. It was whilst at Sony in 2007 that Ivan won a BAFTA for the 'Best Children's Video Game'.

Martin Kitney

Director

Martin has ten years experience in the video and mobile games industries working in various positions covering sales, PR, marketing and development. He has previously held positions at Rage Software plc, Jester Interactive Limited, ZOO Digital Publishing Limited and more recently, Telcogames Limited, where he was responsible for sourcing and assessing all mobile game content for distribution purposes as well as identifying titles with the potential for cross-platform exploitation.

Martin's highlights include launching the PC title 'Incoming' at Rage Software plc which sold over 8 million units and personally negotiating the video game rights for Lamborghini and David Beckham games. He was also responsible for selling the first third party mobile game (Airlock) to Orange back in 2001.