BEN GRANADOS is a family first executive who has spent his entire 29 year career in the video game industry. He has successfully co-founded, operated and exited Petrol Advertising after 21 highly successful and profitable years. Petrol has been an industry staple and best in class agency for over two decades.

He led the operations, business development, accounting and strategy teams. He has a genuine love and deep passion for video games, the business and the future of the industry. He has helped strategically launch well over 1,000 games finding common ground between business, development, and marketing.

As the CEO of PUBLSH, he is dedicated to supporting investors, publishers, developers and marketing teams. He aims to help businesses achieve commercial success and help their products find market fit. He will guide and support mitigating risk and achieving more predictable outcomes for his partnerships by leveraging his industry leadership and vision.

SAM CLARKE is the Chief Strategy Officer at PUBLSH.

With over 20+ years of industry experience, he has played a pivotal role in collaborating with and contributing to the success of numerous billion-dollar companies, franchises, products, publishers, and development studios worldwide.

As a motivated and confident leader, Sam excels in balancing creative and strategic savvy. Sam remains at the forefront of new media, trends, and technologies that equate to a meaningful impact to business objectives. He excels in building trusting relationships with investment firms / venture capitalists, developers, publishers and partners around the world.

Sam has turned his passion for games into a flourishing career and specializes in the entertainment sectors of gaming, technology, hardware, blockchain, and web3. His vast product knowledge coupled with a hands on approach have been instrumental in supporting partners in fulfilling their ambitions, while ensuring the focus remains on operating a for profit business.

With 17+ years of executive leadership, Ryan has built and transformed multiple world-class game studios from the ground up. Rising from development roots to C-level positions, he combines exceptional talent identification with strategic studio design that consistently delivers critically acclaimed, commercially successful titles.

HEAD OF RUNESCAPE, CREATED EPIC GAME STORE, BROUGHT CROSSPLAY TO THE INDUSTRY GENRE EXPERTISE: FPS, OPENWORLD, UGC, ACTION RPG, MMO, MOBA, 4X STRATEGY

SUPER POWERS: "Ryan's unique expertise, rising from the development trenches to executive leadership - enables him to validate creative concepts, production plans, market fit, and business models with exceptional accuracy. His framework-driven approach consistently identifies winning opportunities while avoiding costly missteps."

STUDIO BUILDING | TALENT ACQUISITION | PRODUCTION LEADERSHIP | CREATIVE EXCELLENCE | CRITICAL ACCLAIM | COMMERCIAL SUCCESS | GAAS & LIVEOPS EXPERT | UGC | ONLINE PLATFORMS | PULSE ON THE INDUSTRY

Milosz Szczygielski is an industry leader with over 10+ years of experience in animation and post-production and video game development. As the Founder and Creative Director of Circa Entertainment—operating in Tallinn, Estonia, and Warsaw, Poland—he has built a studio renowned for its expertise in 3D animation, game cinematics, and motion capture technology.

Previously holding executive roles at CI Games, Techland, and multiple independent studios, Milosz has spearheaded creative direction, production management, and business development across the entire game production pipeline. His leadership has driven teams to deliver immersive entertainment experiences for global audiences.

A graduate of MIT Professional Education "No Code AI and Machine Learning" program, Milosz is integrating advanced AI and data analytics to help inform as well as provide insight across investment, development assessment and go to market support throughout the game development process. His latest innovation, **PHASE**, transforms esports analytics through AI, machine learning, and biometric insights, shaping the future of player experience and performance optimization.