Industry Alert: Siobhan Reddy and Rob Murray announced as Games Program ors

Games industry experts Siobhan Reddy and Rob Murray will join Screen Australia's assessment committee as consultants in providing an industry perspective for the agency's first Games Enterprise Program which closes applications today. Other committee members on the Games Enterprise Program are Screen Australia's Investment Managers Mike Cowap and Justin Halliday. The committee will consider applications, allocating up to $1 million over three years to each applicant.

Screen Australia's Senior Manager, Interactive and Multi-platform, Tim Phillips, said, We're thrilled to have industry assessors of the calibre of Siobhan Reddy and Rob Murray working with us. They bring a wealth of experience from the games sector to the table.

Siobhan Reddy is Studio Director at Media Molecule, who created the hugely successful and innovative LittleBigPlanet game franchise. She was recently named Australian Woman of the Year in the UK and by the BBC as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK. Cultivating an early fascination with fanzines, technology, pop culture and entertainment led to her first job at Spike Wireless. Siobhan entered the games industry at 18 years of age as Production Assistant at Perfect Entertainment in the UK on DiscWorld Noir. By 1999, she had joined Criterion Games as Producer where she consistently shipped high-quality titles including, Burnout 3 and Burnout 4.

Rob Murray has broad experience in the Australian games industry as an entrepreneur, designer, producer and engineer. In 1999, Rob founded Firemint, the critically acclaimed game developer and publisher best known for iPhone hits Real Racing and Flight Control. Firemint's accolades include Design Awards from Apple, and the Federal Government's Australian Exporter of the Year (Art & Entertainment). Rob has been personally recognised by Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year awards as well as the Pearcey IT award for taking a risk and making a difference in the development of the Australian ICT industry. Rob sold Firemint to NASDAQ listed Electronic Arts in 2011 and continued there as an executive producer until early 2013. He has also served terms as a director of Film Victoria and the Game Developers' Association of Australia. Rob is currently pursuing investments in the broader technology industry.

Successful applications will be announced at Screen Australia's Jobs, Dollars, Hearts & Minds conference on 18 June 2013. The conference is a one-day policy event in Canberra on the key issues and opportunities facing screen businesses and Australian content.

For more information about the Games Enterprise Program visit the Screen Australia website.

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