Simon Hade's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Space Ape Games is an Award Winning Mobile/Social Gaming startup founded in 2012. We’re a small, high-performing team with big aspirations to make the highest quality and most successful games on your smart phone and tablet. Join us at http://www.spaceapegames.com/careers/Founder & COO @ Space Ape is London's hottest gaming start up. Winner of 2014 Develop Award for Best New Studio, 2015 Best Independent Studio and 2015 Europas Best European Start Up. Backed with $11m investment from he people behind some of Europe's biggest successes like Spotify, Supercell, Playfish, Plarium, Playtika, Rovio and many more. Our first hit Samurai Siege launched October 2013 and has been played by over 14m people and made over $30m in revenue. Rival Kingdoms: Age of Ruin was played by over 3m people in it's first month, was featured as Apple Editor's Choice globally. Now around 100 people, focussed on making more awesome games. We're hiring, and growing fast so even if we have no advertised role that fits you please still get in touch. http://www.spaceapegames.com/careers Rival Kingdoms: Age of Ruin: www.rivalkingdoms.com Short video about Space Ape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdvGgiX5cs Techcrunch coverage of our $11m funding announcement: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/monkey-business/ Venturebeat coverage of Rival Kingdoms: http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/02/how-space-ape-aims-to-become-one-of-the-big-hairy-brutes-of-mobile-gaming-interview/ Space Ape Analytics Stack: http://www.slideshare.net/SimonHade1/the-samurai-siege-analytics-stack From July 2012 to Present (3 years 4 months) LondonSenior Director, Product Management @ Responsible for the Playfish platform. This was a collection of services used by Playfish and EA games studios for developing games on Facebook, including: - Back-end services for messaging, identity, CRM, testing and targeting content and 3rd party advertising. - The consumer facing service layer / software console around each game used for cross promotion and engagement of ~50m monthly users. - Supporting new game launches such as The Sims Social which went from 0 to 60m users in 2 months. - Productizing the platform for 3rd party publishing efforts. Charged with extending the platform technology pioneered at Playfish to the rest of EA on all gaming platforms, starting with iOS and Android. From January 2011 to May 2012 (1 year 5 months) London, United KingdomSenior Product Manager (among other things) @ Held various senior "intrepreneurial" product and commercial roles mainly concerning monetization, including regular interactions with the executive team. During this time we - Grew the user base from tens of millions to hundreds of millions. - Increased revenue 10x to nearly $1bn annually. - Grew headcount from a couple of hundred to nearly a thousand. - Were managed by the Skype founders, part of eBay, sold to VC's including Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and others ... before the eventual sale to Microsoft for $8.5bn in 2011. Highlights: 2010-2011: Product Manager for core consumer paid services that generated most of Skype's revenue. Launched new generation of subscription; 1,000+ products in 170 countries. 2009: As Head of Global Advertising Programs, oversaw product development and launch of new advertising revenue streams. - Launched innovative click to call advertising model - Co-inventor of worldwide patent (WO2010127992) related to click to call technology * Winner of 2009 Econsultancy award for Innovation in Lead Generation Online - Led development of in-client advertising product 2008: As Head of Global eCommerce, responsible for developing new business opportunities and diversifying Skype’s revenue. - Re-focussed disconnected and under-performing activities - Drove product innovation and strategy culminating in the creation of a new business unit dedicated to monetizing the Skype user base through advertising 2006-2007: Product Manager for Skype's global consumer paid services offering. - Launched SMS and Skype To Go features which scaled to a $20m/year business under my management. - Drove pricing and bundling strategy culminating in the launch of domestic and international calling plans in over 30 countries; scaled to a $100m+ business. From January 2006 to January 2011 (5 years 1 month) London, United KingdomConsultant @ Legal, strategy and business consultant to various companies mainly involved in online gaming and payments - managed international legal affairs for a private equity group including complex civil and regulatory proceedings in 7 jurisdictions - advised on operational restructure of an online gambling company with over $20m in monthly sales - advised investors on seed and early stage funding and preparing a company for pitching to the capital markets From October 2003 to February 2006 (2 years 5 months) Solicitor, Commercial, Litigation @ Commercial law, property, contract negotiation, licensing, dispute resolution and litigation with a focus on technology & internet companies From January 2000 to June 2003 (3 years 6 months) Brisbane Area, AustraliaTutor (part time) @ Preparing course materials, teaching and tutoring mainly Information Systems components of Bachelor of Information Technology and Engineering courses From July 1996 to November 1999 (3 years 5 months) Brisbane Area, AustraliaBSc, LLB(Hons), Information Technology, Law @ The University of Queensland From 1995 to 1999 Agile - Certified Scrum Product Owner Simon Hade is skilled in: Product Management, Product Development, Business Strategy, Large Scale Systems, International Business..., Change Management, Management, Start-ups, Online Gaming, Gaming Industry, Internet, Social Games, Social Networking, Telecommunications, Online Advertising, E-commerce, Fast Paced Environment, Rapid Growth, Facebook, Skype, Online Gambling, Monetization, CRM, P&L Responsibility, Regulatory Affairs, Commercial Litigation, Veterinary, Mobile Devices, Agile Methodologies, User Experience, PPC, Mobile Games, Lead Generation, Team Management, Web Analytics, Mobile Applications, Video Games, Mobile Marketing, Start-up