Stuart Dinsey

Stepped up to CEO after long spell as chairman and investor, leading Curve through change of ownership from private-equity backed Catalis to publicly-quoted Nazara Technologies - a $28.9m deal completed in summer 2025. Curve is a leading global indie games publisher across all leading platfiorms - PC, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 1 and Switch 2, mobile and VR. Stuart has been involved with the indie publisher since 2013. Hits include the 55m+ unit-selling Human Fall Flat, the chart-topping Nintendo blockbuster Wobbly Life, The Ascent, Bomber Crew and For The King. Curve Games is based in London and also owns the Ironoak Games studio (For The King franchise) in Vancouver.

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Supporting management with business development, recruitment and planning. Advised on acquisition by Enthusiast Gaming in 2019. Brands include Pocket Gamer Connects and PocketGamer.biz.

Senior contributor to the industry, consumer and Government-facing trade body for UK-based interactive entertainment businesses. Appointed to role of Chair in September 2019, with responsibility to ensure that the board is effective in its task of setting and implementing UKIE direction and strategy. Overseeing board meetings and fiduciary controls.

Founder and MD, with focus on entertainment and tech - including video games, music, TV, licensing, toys, mobile, home computing and cycling. Stuart launched Computer Trade Weekly (CTW) rival MCV: The Market for Computer & Video Games in September 1998, backed by German media group Computec AG. Stuart acquired and relaunched Develop (for programmers, artists and musicians) in November 1999. This was followed by the acquisition and relaunch of ToyNews in January 2001. In March 2002, an MBO was concluded for £1.1m. At the same time, Intent acquired the assets of rival games weekly CTW. Intent launched computing trade title PC Retail in August 2003 (and acquired the assets of Trinity Mirror title CTO), then Mobile Entertainment in 2005, BikeBiz and MI Pro (both acquisitions) in spring 2006, Audio Pro International in September 2007 and Licensing.Biz in September 2009. Other acquisitions included the assets of Prestige Media (Mobile Music Now, Stream) and Skep Media (Video Home Entertainment, RRP, Games 3.0 and InStock Magazine) in 2008. Growth continued as digital and events headed towards 50% of total revenue. Among many new events, The London Games Conference was opened by UK Minister for Culture, Ed Vaizey in 2009. By 2010, Intent employed 50 staff in its Hertford HQ. It completed the £2.4m acquisition of Music Week, TVB Europe, Installation and Pro Sound News Europe from UBM in August 2011. Music Week was successfully relaunched and UBM staff were transferred to a new office in Islington, taking Intent Media’s count to 100 and annual revenues to £10m. Intent then launched MCV Pacific, MCV India and MCV Nordic, as well as a string of new events. Success attracted the interest of New York-based NewBay Media, owned by private equity firm The Wicks Group. Newbay completed its acquisition of Intent Media in December 2012. This was followed in spring 2013 by Intent relaunching Audio Media, TV Technology Europe and TV Technology Asia for Newbay.