Meet the Team
Meet the wonderful people that make up the team at Coatsink.
Meet the team!
Find out a bit more about the wonderful team at Coatsink below. If you’d like to join us then check out our career page now. We’re always on the look out for talented people to join us!
SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

Tom Beardsmore
VP of Business & Strategy at The Thunderful Group

Eddie Beardsmore
VP of Studios at The Thunderful Group

Sue Smith
Director of People & Culture at The Thunderful Group

Richard Snowdon
Head of Studio

Emma Blenkinsop
Administration Manager

Claire Hopkins
HR Manager

Naaila Clements
Head of Publishing

Jade Lockey
Senior Producer
PRODUCTION

Nick Taylor
Producer

Loryn Davison
Producer

Rachel Robertson
Junior Producer

Adam Dickinson
QA Manager

Fiona Nichols
QA Tester

Pedro Ribeiro Menk Nicoletti
QA Tester

Nate Conlon
Junior QA Tester

Chelsea Toms
Junior QA Tester

Matthew Kell
Junior QA Tester

Ross Mitchell
Junior QA Tester

David Archibald
Junior QA Tester

Ellie Matthews
QA Tester

Rebecca Wilson
Junior QA Tester

Cam Plummer
Junior QA Tester

Holly Grant
Junior QA Tester
PROGRAMMING

Simon Launder
Chief Engineer

Jimmy Whitemore
Chief Technical Officer

Tom Elliott
Head of Programming

Joe Robson
Senior Programmer

Matt Hubery
Senior Programmer

Ross Furmidge
Senior Programmer

Matt Lacey
Senior Programmer

Calum Haigh
Senior Programmer

Marty Green
Senior Programmer

Max Charnock
Senior Programmer

Ewan Gibson
Programmer

Jake Rowe
Senior Programmer

Preston Phillips
Senior Programmer

Owain Bolt
Programmer

Robert Jones
Senior Programmer

Ricardo Zaideman Charf
Programmer

Chris Kirkham
Programmer

Chris Walters
Senior Programmer

Josh Beech
Programmer

Berkem Cinar
Programmer

Daniel Cole
Programmer

Gary Thornton
Senior Network Programmer

Max De Sutter
Programmer

Rival Brear
Programmer

John Peart
Programmer

Joshua Stevenson
Programmer

Lee Hobbs
SQL Programmer
ART

Matt Daroczy
Chief Creative Officer

Bryn Morrison-Elliott
Head of Art

Gareth Davies
Senior Concept Artist

Amanda Cheng
Senior 3D Artist

Sam Ponsonby
3D Artist

Jacob Mould
Senior 3D Artist

Michael Ching
Senior 3D Artist

Akira Yashiki
Character Artist

Beth Freckleton
3D Artist

Paula Sanchis Oviedo
Senior 3D Artist

Clarisse Magand
Concept Artist

Peter Taschner
Technical Artist

Aaran Burnett
VFX Artist

Jose Gonzalez Rodriguez
Character Artist

Alberto Prieto de la Iglesia
Senior Technical Artist

Adam Birch
UI/UX Artist

Steinar Hølland
Junior VFX Artist

Rachel Brodie
Junior 3D Artist

Michael Kirby
Junior UI/UX Artist
DESIGN

Paul Crabb
Chief Design Officer & Co-Founder

Mark Wilson
Design Manager

Jon Davies
Head of Narrative

Kat Davis
Senior Designer

Fabiene MacMillan
Senior Designer

Jorden Hildrew
Senior Designer

Trent Davies
Senior Designer

Luke "Flint" Wintflint
Senior Designer

Adam James
Designer

Adam Carter-Groves
Designer

Kamil Bazydlo
Junior Designer

Sam Hall
Designer

Stephen "Archie" Archibald
Junior Designer
ANIMATION

Emma Hollingsworth
Head of Animation

Ben Ayling
Senior Animator

Lewis Hill
Animator

Richard Whitemore
Senior Animator

Ina Stokland
Junior Animator

Luke Coleman
Junior Animator
AUDIO

Simon James
Head of Audio

Niall Coates
Sound Designer
BUSINESS SUPPORT

Martin Evlogiev
IT Manager

Brandon Lee
IT Assistant
PUBLISHING

Jack Sanderson
PR & Events Manager

Ray Willmott
Senior Social Media & Community Manager

Helen Morris
Social Media & Community Manager

Kal Holmes
Creative Services Manager

Jan Swidan
Marketing Graphic Designer
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTORS

Vince Webb
Composer

Jack Hookham
Programmer

Giannis Chourdakis
Programmer

Rob Canciello
Designer

Nikolaj de Haan Mikkelsen
Sound Designer

Tyler Schatz
Concept Artist
We are transparent and honest
- We communicate clearly and openly, ensuring the right people have the right information, at the right time, so they can do a great job.
- We share our knowledge with colleagues and partnerships generously.
- We make decisions and act in the interests of the wider team.
- We are straightforward and do what we say we will do.
- We take responsibility for our actions.
- We address problems, issues and mistakes.
We are respectful, kind and inclusive.
- We support and encourage one another in our work, particularly when we are discouraged or lacking confidence.
- We are kind to one another and help each other to develop resilience.
- We acknowledge and respect that we are all different, with our own perspectives.
- We are self-aware and regularly reflect on how we affect others.
- We create opportunities to raise awareness of minority groups in our work.
We are passionate about what we do
- We are enthusiastic about our games.
- We contribute the best of our skills and knowledge every day.
- We aim to be the best at what we do.
- We have fun while we work.
We collaborate as one team
- We seek and consider advice from colleagues with specialist knowledge.
- We consider the needs of the wider team in our actions and decision making.
- We recognise and appreciate each other’s priorities.We protect each other’s wellbeing.
- We build two-way trust and camaraderie across disciplines, empowering everyone to express suggestions and concerns.
- We contribute to regular reflective/retrospective meetings and empower each other to deliver solutions to problems.
We strive to achieve the highest quality
- We set our own challenging but realistic aims.
- We manage partner expectations.
- We rigorously test everything we do.
- We encourage each other to address quality concerns.
- We are detail orientated when needed.
We are confident and ambitious
- We take the initiative.
- We face difficult situations head on.
We encourage and celebrate creativity
- We are open minded.
- We can take calculated risks.
- We are prepared to learn from our mistakes as part of our learning and creativity.
- We are curious and experimental.
- We nurture new ideas, building in time to our working lives to explore and create new concepts.
We are knowledgeable
- We take opportunities to increase our knowledge and hone our specialist skills.
- We take opportunities to understand the wider organisation.
- We know and understand our partners in detail.
- We are inquisitive & ask questions.
- We seek, reflect and learn from colleague feedback.
- We are willing to share knowledge and best practice.
- We understand our own limits and when to ask for help.
- We learn from our mistakes.
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