Tim Christian

A qualified accountant and Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Tim was a Senior Vice President at CIC Video (Paramount and Universal’s video distribution joint-venture) before joining the computer games industry in 1991.

Over the following 9 years he was Managing Director at Accolade Europe, Microprose Europe and then, following its acquisition of Microprose in 1998, Hasbro Interactive, leading all those companies to significant increases in sales growth and profitability.

In 2000, Tim left Hasbro Interactive to found TC Associates Ltd, concentrating on strategic consulting opportunities in the computer games industry.

In 2002, he co-founded Media Forensics Ltd, which grew to become the computer games industry’s leading independent royalty audit business, working with many of the industry’s biggest names. He left Media Forensics Ltd in March 2009.

Also in 2002, he co-founded Data Genetics International Ltd, which became the UK’s leading independent computer forensics investigations business. DGI was acquired by Stroz Friedberg Inc in December 2008 and Tim became Chief Operating Officer of Stroz Friedberg Ltd, concentrating principally on the post-acquisition integration of the two businesses.

The integration complete, Tim leaves Stroz Friedberg Ltd in 2009 to concentrate on establishing another computer games royalty audit business and to continue his non-executive work in varied industries.