Kelly Sumner, Date of Birth
TweetKelly Sumner
British businessman
Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1961
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Kelly Sumner
- Kelly Sumner (born 29 April 1961), is Chairman of sports technology company Quick Feet, a Director of blockchain video games company Planet Distribution Partners, the Director of personal data security company MEEM Memory, and Director of ArBa Developments, a software development and testing company based in Bangalore. Kelly has run two NASDAQ listed companies.
- He has 40 years experience in hardware and software, starting as a trainee electronics engineer at Commodore in 1979.
- He progressed up the corporate ladder becoming Managing Director of Commodore in the UK. From hardware he went into software, joining US based Nintendo and Sega publisher Gametek as European MD before becoming CEO.
- Kelly merged Gametek into the fledgling publisher Take Two shortly thereafter.
- As CEO he took the company to annual sales of $1 billion, investing in the creation of amongst others, Rockstar Games, launching products such as Grand Theft Auto and delivering a four-fold increase in the share price.After Take Two, Kelly became CEO of RedOctane fronting the commercial development of Guitar Hero, the video game that went on to become a $1 Billion franchise.
- He sold RedOctane to Activision in 2006 for $160m.
- Kelly has more recently been investing in early stage tech companies.
- During this period he has been chairman of Intentmedia, which was sold to Newbay Capital; and Mediatonic which was sold to Synova Capital.
- As noted earlier, Kelly is currently the Chairman of sports technology company Quick Feet, a Director of blockchain video games company Planet Distribution Partners, the Director of personal data security company MEEM Memory, and Director of ArBa Developments, a software development and testing company based in Bangalore.Kelly currently resides in Weybridge Surrey with his wife and two daughters after stints in Miami and NY.
- In 1992 Kelly won a Golden Joystick on Channel 4’s GamesMaster for completing a challenge playing The Humans on the now much-revered Amiga.
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