Gina Jackson

Head of Games, The Imaginarium

Gina Jackson

Head of Games, The Imaginarium

gina-jacksonGina Jackson has recently joined The Imaginarium, to setup a new games publishing division; The Imaginarium is the production company founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavandish developing films, TV shows, and games as well as world class performance capture. She started her career in the videogames industry in 1992, working in production on a wide variety of games for different developers and publishers, and then moved into business development roles at Nokia, Kuju and Eidos. Passionate about education and diversity, Gina took on roles including Chief Executive of Women in Games and she is also a Visiting Professor in the games industry and business at Norwich University of the Arts. Gina’s last role as Managing Director at the NextGen Skills Academy saw her transform the curriculum of games, animation and VFX in FE Colleges as well as the development of new higher level apprenticeship and a women’s mentoring programme.

 

 

 

Sessions with Gina Jackson

Let’s All Play Games

Dec 04 2018
16:15-17:15
Room C

Games for Good

Dec 04 2019
14:00 - 14.:45
Black Box

States of Play: Converging Creativity

Dec 04 2019
16:00 - 16:45
Black Box