Chris Deering

Chairman, Codemasters; formerly President of Sony Computer Entertainment – Europe (London)

Chris Deering has led multicultural motion picture video and computer game publishing for nearly 3 decades, initially as Vice President – International for Atari game consoles and computers, and subsequently as Executive Vice President and COO for Columbia Pictures International Video, and from 1995 to 2005 as President of Sony Computer Entertainment - Europe (SCEE).

At SCEE he led the team that has sold over 80 million consoles and facilitated the sale of over 1 billion games. Most of SCEE's original management team, set up by Chris, remains at the core of PlayStation leadership, now including the management of Sony's worldwide game development studios.

Chris now serves as Chairman of the Board for Codemasters, the world’s leading independent video game developers; and as non-exec Chairman of Learning Without Frontiers Ltd.  Chris served as Chairman of Jalipo.com which was sold to ROK Entertainment, and is currently an advisor for Playspan, Text Appeal, Vlvox, Livstation.com, PushButtonMusic and Playfire.  Chris also serves as Chairman of the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival.