Hospital Club 100 gaming and tech shortlist unveiled

The Hospital Club has unveiled its shortlist for the hClub100 gaming and technology category.

The hClub100 is a list of the one hundred most innovative and inspirational people within the creative industries. This is the sixth year the scheme has been running.

The games and technology category shortlist is comprised of 25 people, including Green Man Gaming’s Paul Sulyok, indie developer Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris and MakieLab’s Alice Taylor.

A panel of judges will pick their top nine entrants, while the tenth place will be decided by a public vote. If you are interested in taking part, click here.

As well as gaming and technology there are categories for advertising, marketing and PR, art and design, broadcast, creative entrepreneurs, fashion, film, music, publishing and writing, and theatre and performance.

Winners will be announced at the Hospital Club Studio on October 8th.

Below is the full shortlist for the gaming and technology category:

1. Alice Bentinck, Co-founder, Entrepreneur First
2. Alice Taylor, Founder, MakieLab
3. Benjamin Southworth, Partner, Lean Capital
4. Colin Macdonald, Games Commissioner, Channel 4
5. Dan Pearce, Game Developer, The Tall Trees
6. Ed Cooke, CEO, Memrise
7. Efe Cakarel, Founder, MUBI
8. Glen Mehn, Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures
9. James Layfield, CEO, Central Working
10. Jim Boulton, Curator, Digital Archaelology
11. Jon Reynolds & Ben Medlock, Founders, SwiftKey
12. Kathryn Parsons, CEO, Decoded
13. Ken Wong, Visual Designer, ustwo
14. Kieran O’Neill, CEO, Thread
15. Libby Powell, CEO, Radar
16. Louise Shannon, Curator, The V&A
17. Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris, Game Developer, The Tiniest Shark
18. Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder, DeepMind Technologies
19. Paul Sulyok, CEO, Green Man Gaming
20. Rex Crowle, Game Designer, Media Molecule
21. Roberta Lucca, CMO / CEO, Bossa Studios / Wonderluk
22. Samir Desai, CEO, Funding Circle
23. Siobhan Reddy, Studio Director, Molecule Video Games
24. Stef Lewandowski, Founder, Makeshift.io
25. Syd Lawrence & Tom Gibby, Co-Founders, We Make Awesome Sh