Geoffrey MacDougall Partner & Producer Veil Entertainment

Geoffrey MacDougall builds from his professional experience in organizational design and development to serve as a rainmaker for a variety of public, private, and voluntary sector initiatives. A Partner & Producer with Veil Entertainment, he is currently engaged as the Producer & Lead Designer for Rise & Ruin, an online game venture for which he secured $700 thousand in private and public sector financing. Through his company Outset Consulting, Geoffrey has also served as the Vice-President of Corporate Affairs for Iron Realms Entertainment; the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for the Information Technology Association of Canada; and Chief of Staff of the United Nations World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs.

Skilled in business development and stakeholder relations, Geoffrey has raised and / or managed ~$2.5 million in public sector funding for ICT- and new media-related projects since 2002. Geoffrey is one of the few games industry professionals with direct expertise in the sale of virtual goods and services within online worlds, having, among other projects, localized Sulake’s Habbo Hotel to the Canadian market and assisted Corus Entertainment in the development of revenue strategies to accompany their online games. Geoffrey has also led the design and user requirements documentation processes for numerous web, new media, and game development projects and continues his decade-long research into the socio-political and economic facets of online worlds.

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