Co-Founder & COO
Space Ape Games

Simon Hade is COO & Co-founder of Space Ape Games, creators of the hit strategy games Transformers: Earth Wars, Rival Kingdoms and Samurai Siege. Space Ape is a 100 person, 3 year old mobile games studio based in Central London and has raised over $11m from some of the world’s pre-eminent games investors. The studio won the Develop Award for Best Independent Studio and TIGA Best Games Start Up 2015. Prior to founding Space Ape, Simon was a product lead at Playfish / Electronic Arts and Skype where he looked after monetisation products during its early years. Simon has previously spoken at GDC, Gaming Insiders, Pocket Gamer Connects.

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