Nick Thomas
VP, Commecial Partnerships
Hatch Entertainment
Nick is a video game industry veteran with over 15 years of executive experience. He is the VP of Commercial Partnerships for Hatch Entertainment, a spin-off of Rovio and the creators of Hatch, a revolutionary mobile game streaming service built for 5G. Hatch has launched in Europe, Japan and Korea with major partners including Docomo and Samsung, and is launching in the United States this summer in partnership with Sprint and Samsung on their 5G handsets. Prior to leading commercial partnerships Nick operated as the VP of Content Publishing leading developer and publisher relationships. His career in gaming began in 2003 as the founder and CEO of Somatone Interactive, one of the most well recognised and respected creative service providers in games, credited on hundreds of titles. Subsequently Nick served as the Head of Gaming for Immersion Corporation, the leading IP holder of haptic technology, licensing haptic solutions to hardware OEMs, and haptic technology to content developers to integrate haptic effects into game experiences.
