This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources. (January 2009)

This article may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout. (January 2009)

Tiga is the national trade association representing the business and commercial interests of video and computer game developers in the UK and Europe. Its counterpart representing software publishers in the UK is ELSPA.

Tiga was launched in 2001 by DTI Minister Patricia Hewitt MP, initially focussed on representing the 300 or so independent studios in the UK, but has since evolved to represent all developers - both Publisher owned studios and independents.^[1]

Tiga was a founding member of the European Game Developers Federation (EGDF) representing game developers at an European level. ^[2]

Richard Wilson is the current CEO, succeeding Fred Hasson who held the post since Tiga was founded until the end of 2007.^[3]

Tiga was instrumental in helping establish the first All-Party Parliamentary Group covering video games as part of their lobbying the UK government for film-style tax breaks.^[4]

[edit] Board Members

The Tiga Board is elected by Tiga members at the Tiga AGM each December. One half of the directors of Tiga must resign before each AGM, although they are free to seek re-election. 12 directors represent independent developers (of which 10 represent full members and 2 represent associate members). A further 4 directors represent publisher developer members.

• CEO: Richard Wilson
• Chairman: Ian Baverstock, Kuju Entertainment
• Vice-chairman: Jason Kingsley, Rebellion Developments
• Geoff Heath, NCsoft
• Gareth Edmondson, Reflections Interactive
• Darren Falcus, Atomic Planet Entertainment
• John Chasey, FinBlade
• Vincent Scheurer, Sarassin
• Dave Hawkins, Exient Entertainment
• Jeremy Cooke, Gameware
• Jim Bambra, Pivotal Games
• Jamie MacDonald, SCEE
• Philip Oliver, Blitz Gamers
• Gavin Cheshire, Codemasters
• Charles Cecil, Revolution Software

[edit] External links

• Official TIGA Website
• Official EGDF Website

[edit] References