Meet the Team

DAVE RANYARD

CEO

Former Director of Sony’s London Studio, Dave founded DRi 4 years ago with an ambition to tear down the barriers between people and play. Dave is a 20+ year games industry veteran, with a past life as a signed musician, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.

RICHARD BATES

CTO

As the Technical Director of $1B franchise, SingStar, Richard built the genre-defining karaoke scoring technology from scratch.

An architect of complex online tech platforms, Richard is behind DRi’s sophisticated technology base.

GEMMA GALLAIS

CMO

An Integrated Marketing leader with 15+ years experience managing campaigns, teams,agencies and budgets for multinationals.

Gemma is DRi’s brand guardian, ensuring we are both true to our purpose and commercially sound.

Management Team

Product Team

MASAMI KOCHI

Head of Art

Masami is the creative visionary behind DRi’s unique art styles, and some of Sony and Konami’s most innovative games of the last 20 years.

KEVIN MASON

Head of Design

Kevin is a vastly experienced design director. He led the creative team behind SingStar, and has been integral to other original games including Sony’s fastest-selling VR title, VR Worlds.