Sumo Group
Andrew Baldwin has extensive work experience in finance, with their most recent role as Commercial Finance Director at Sumo Group starting in September 2022. Prior to that, they worked as Head of Finance at Sumo Digital Ltd from January 2020 to September 2022. Before joining Sumo Digital Ltd, they held the position of Senior Manager at PwC UK from January 2016 to January 2020. Earlier in their career, Andrew worked as an Associate Director in Transaction Advisory Services at Grant Thornton UK LLP from October 2007 to December 2015. Andrew also worked as a Chartered Accountant at Allotts Chartered Accountants from September 2004 to October 2007 and as a Pensions Administrator at HRG from November 2003 to September 2004.
Andrew Baldwin attended Longsands College from 1993 to 2000. Andrew then pursued a Bachelor's degree in Economics at the University of York from 2000 to 2003.
Sumo Group
We are Sumo Group, one of the UK’s largest providers of end-to-end creative development and co-development services to the video games and entertainment industries. Sumo Group floated on the AIM in December 2017 and was acquired by Tencent in January 2022 is made up of three operating businesses – Sumo Digital, Auroch Digital and Secret Mode – employing over 1400 talented people across 19 studios in the UK, Poland, Canada and India. Sumo Digital, established in 2003, is one of the UK’s largest independent developers of AAA video games, offering turnkey and co-development solutions to some of the world’s leading publishers, including Sony, Microsoft, SEGA and 2K. It is also home to the Sumo Digital Academy initiative, a talent development programme bringing skilled graduates into the games industry. Sumo Digital is made up of 16 game development studios across the UK, India and Poland. Secret Mode is a video games publisher, focused on delivering fresh and new gaming experiences to players and building expansive and fulfilling communities around those games. It publishes titles developed within Sumo Group and also by independent developers. Auroch Digital is a Bristol-based videogame developer and publisher with a focus on original IP creation. All three companies have deep relationships with some of the world’s largest video game publishers, developers, platform manufacturers, and entertainment brands, including Microsoft, Sony, SEGA, Apple, Warner Bros., and Marvel.