About Us
Ian Livingstone, OBE
non-executive chairman, chairman of remuneration committee, chairman of audit committee
Ian has been in the interactive games industry for over 25 years. In 1975, with Steve Jackson, he co-founded Games Workshop and launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe. In 1982 he co-authored the first of the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy Game books. His former positions include Executive Chairman of Eidos plc. He has helped Eidos secure many of its major franchises, including Tomb Raider. He is presently Product Acquisition Director at Eidos.
Dominic Wheatley
chief executive officer, remuneration committee member, audit committee member
Dominic founded SocialGO in September 2004. Before starting SocialGO, Dominic had considerable executive management experience in the video games industry. He co-founded Domark in 1984, a video games company that he later reversed into Eidos. In 1992 Dominic established Domark's US subsidiary in California. The company changed its name and Dominic served as CEO of Eidos Interactive until 1997. He then became an investor in various companies, some of which he joined as a Director and helped float on the London Stock Exchange (Statpro plc, Kuju plc, and Telecom Plus plc). He also has commercial interests in France. Dominic remains the largest shareholder.
Brett Morris
finance director, remuneration committee member, audit committee member
Brett is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 15 years of experience in Financial and Operational Management. Having spent the first 10 years of his career in banking specialising in mergers and acquisitions and debt financing Brett obtained an MBA from the London Business School after which he moved into Private Equity, where he used his experience to assist companies in growing and developing their businesses. During this time he also focused on company performance monitoring and management where he gained experience in strategic development, business planning and execution as well as general management.
Alex Halliday
joint managing director, remuneration committee member
Alex Halliday has been building and running online businesses for the past 10 years. Most recently a founder of Complete Creative, a design agency which provided web strategy and technical services to larger agencies and their brands such as Vodafone, Diageo and Carlsberg. Previous projects include a fansite hosting and revenue share platform which maintained official and unofficial communities for over 100 artists as well as a government funded academic news and resource aggregation service in Dubai. Alex is the architect of the SocialGO and co-manages the team in Shoreditch, London.
Steve Hardman
joint managing director, remuneration committee member
Steve Hardman has been a technology entrepreneur for over 20 years having established a number of business in automotive & motorsport sectors. He co-founded MSD Ltd to provide advanced engineering & marketing services to the likes of Hyundai, Peugeot, Honda, Lada & General Motors. More recently he established Get On With It Ltd with Alex Halliday to develop the social networking software that forms the basis of SocialGO. He is also an alumnus of London Business School & Columbia Business School NY (2005).
Vikrant Bhargava
non-executive director, remuneration committee member
Mr. Bhargava, aged 37, was a co-founder and the Group Marketing Director of PartyGaming Plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. He spearheaded PartyPoker's growth from a start-up site in 2001 to the world's largest poker room with revenues of circa US$ 1 billion in 2006. Mr. Bhargava stepped down from his role at PartyGaming in 2006 and has since been involved with a number of projects as well as seeking interesting opportunities mainly in the media, e-commerce and real estate sectors.He is also focused on building LetzDream, a non-profit, self-sustaining platform to help organizations engaged in social projects scale up by providing access to human and financial capital. Mr. Bhargava is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1994) and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (1996).