Dare Academy Mentors

Throughout Dare Academy our teams will receive guidance from professionals working in the games industry. Let’s go and meet them shall we?

2023 Mentors!

Grant Clarke

Grant Clarke

Technical Lead @ Unity

Stuart Brown

Stuart Brown

Senior Software Engineer @ Unity

Malath Abbas

Malath Abbas

Founding Member @ Biome Collective

Rachel Simpson

Composer and Sound Designer

Antony Capper

Antony Capper

Build Engineer @ Rebellion

Senior Accessibility Designer @ Rebellion

Cari Watterton

Senior Accessibility Designer @ Rebellion

Senior Designer (Narrative & Dialogue) @ Rebellion

Alastair Brown

Senior Designer (Narrative & Dialogue) @ Rebellion

Stephanie Bazeley

Stephanie Bazeley

Senior Programmer @ Team Junkfish

Stuart Martin

Stuart Martin

CEO @ Hyper Luminal Games

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Rob Madden

Creative Director @ Hyper Luminal Games

Searra Leishman

Searra Leishman

UX/UI Design Manager @ Hyper Luminal Games

Katy Wood

Hyper Luminal Games

Katy Wood

Senior 3D Artist @ Hyper Luminal Games

Alastair Smith - Director, Corporate @ Lindsays

Alastair Smith

Director, Corporate @ Lindsays

Sean is a Solicitor in our Employment team based in Edinburgh. Sean read History and Politics at the University of Glasgow, before completing his LLB and the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Edinburgh.  Sean advises employers and individuals on a wide range of employment matters. For employers, this includes advice in relation to disciplinary and grievance matters, capability and conduct dismissals, redundancies and defending employment tribunal claims.  For individuals, Sean advises on settlement agreements, post termination restrictions and unfair dismissal.

Sean McEntee

Solicitor, Employment @ Lindsays

Carla is a Trainee Solicitor with Lindsays and is a member of our Employment team in our Glasgow office; she completed her Accelerated LLB in 2020 and Postgraduate Diploma in 2021, both at the University of Glasgow.

Carla Codona

Trainee Solicitor, Employment @ Lindsays

Stephen Bain

Stephen Bain

Partner and Head of Games & Digital @ Henderson Loggie

Grant Snedden Bio

Grant Snedden

Manager @ Henderson Loggie

Dundee born and educated, Andy Miller is Animation Director at newly formed Fuse Games based in Guildford. He shipped many titles at his time in EA including Battlefields 1, V & 2042; Battlefronts I & II and most recently NFS Unbound. Before EA he worked on many pre-rendered game cinematics, game trailers and commercials as part of Axis Animation. He is currently obsessed with fusing everything to everything in Zelda.

Andy Miller

Animation Director @ Fuse Games

While game design and playing games are my passion, I love playing board games, tabletop war games especially games workshops Necromunda and playing football to keep active. I also tell terrible pun jokes 😊

Erich Cooper

Senior Game Designer @ Sumo Digital

If not indulging in dissecting each and every individual panel in a comic, I’m often hunting weird and obscure oversea releases – such as Touhou Hisoutensoku (bullet-hell x fighting games are a surprisingly fun mix!) – so if you have any secret gems throw them my way!

Nathan Chandler-Gibson

Senior Game Designer @ Sumo Digital

Steve McGreal Bio Picture

Steve McGreal

Software Development Consultant @ Unity

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QAA Award

University of the Year for Teaching Quality

Athena SWAN

Race Equality Charter Mark

V&A Dundee

DORA

Healthy Working Lives Award

Living Wage Employer

Employer Recognition Scheme

Advance HE Membership