Brian Baglow - CTRL + ALT + COMPETE - Episode 5
Brian is a writer, designer, founder, CEO and NED. He started his career in the games industry as the writer for Grand Theft Auto before discovering a talent for communications and marketing. Brian joined Rockstar Games before moving into the nascent mobile games industry with the pioneering Scottish publisher Digital Bridges. In 2002 Brian founded Scotland’s first digital games agency, Indoctrimat, which worked with over 150 organisations around the world. Brian also lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, focusing on the transformative power of interactive media within the arts and creative industries. Brian founded the Scottish Games Network in 2004, the industry body for Scotland’s games industry. In 2022 Brian created Scottish Games Week, the first large-scale games event in the country. With the backing of the Scottish Government, Brian is now writing an Action Plan and building a new ecosystem-wide cluster to make Scotland one of the world’s top five hubs for games education, creation and application. He's a regular contributor to the media, tech ecosystem and government, whenever they need to know more about this 'games thing'.