About
Quizzino™ is a team of people who all are crazy about games, challenges and the adrenalin rush of being a winner.
We’ve got together to form a new company that aims to provide everyone who loves to win with a great new kind of compelling entertainment experience on the internet and mobile phones.
Quizzino™ is all about great games and puzzles that are quick and simple (but definitely not dumb) to play.
At the heart of the Quizzino™ experience is the principle that “it pays to play”, and when the new Quizzino™ website is launched later this year, we’ll be rewarding all our registered players with exciting free offers and great prizes in fun competitions.
We also want to know what our players think of every game we launch, so that we can make the new ones as good and enjoyable as possible.
The Founding Team
Pete Ward – Managing Director
Pete spent five years at Sky as Head of Channels for its gambling business, Sky Bet. Building and launching several live TV channels and their production units from scratch, he launched the UK’s first ever multiple platform live Casino and Poker channels.
Prior to Sky, Peter worked for a number of leading UK broadcasters and production companies as a TV Producer in the Entertainment sector including the BBC, Celador and Chrysalis producing comedy, quiz, sitcom and panel shows. He also spent 18 months as a media investment specialist at internet incubator Brainspark and has also set up and run several of his own TV production companies.
David Housham – Creative Director
Prior to Quizzino, David was an Executive Producer with Endemol in the UK working on a range of digital projects, including running an interactive TV and online gaming channel – Gala TV, an interactive bingo channel, live eight hours a day, and distributed via satellite TV and web streaming. Other Endemol digital projects including co ventures with international games publisher, Electronic Arts, the British video games production company Blitz Games and leading digital agency, R/GA.
Prior to Endemol David worked for many leading UK broadcasters and production companies, including the BBC, Tiger Aspect and Carlton Television/Action Time. David has been responsible for the international roll-out of many game show and entertainment formats, launching shows across Europe and in the Far East.
Ben Maher – Commercial Director
Ben has worked in digital media for over ten years commercialising platforms online. At download film site Jaman.com he was Commercial Director of International. He had previously been at Endemol heading up commercial activity on the Virtual Me project.
Ben has also worked at blue chip companies such as Yahoo!, AOL and was one of the launch team for MySpace and Fox Interactive Media in Europe and he consulted on digital strategy for Elite Models Worldwide, The Scouts and sits on Chelsea Football Club’s Web Advisory Group.
Darren Richardson - Chief Technology Officer
Darren has been in the technology field for the past 15 years working in the financial sector for blue chip companies such as Lloyds of London, Mann Investments and Cantor Fitzgerald working on broker systems and spread betting application for Cantor Index, Spreadfair and Ladbrokes.
After 7 years in the city Darren moved into the digital, advertising and gaming arenas, working for Magic Lantern productions as interactive director for their BBC eLearning projects, which consisted of three virtual gaming worlds to teach students maths and science through gaming.
Darren then moved To R/GA as Technical Director and was set the task of creating the technical team for the London office he was in charge of all the agencies’ technical output working for Clients such as Nokia, Nike and SCJ. He then served as the Technical Director of digital agency De-Construct which offers clients a complete 360 on all channels to market. Clients include Reebook, Adidas, Panasonic , Wodka, Vitra and the Barbican. Darren has also implemented an outsourcing strategy for the agency, which Isobar UK is now introducing.
If you’ve got any comments about Quizzino, then we’d love to have them: email them to us – helpme@quizzino.com