Sumo Group
Nina Cliff has a diverse range of experience in business development and consulting roles within the games and digital entertainment industry. Nina is currently working as the Director of Business Development at Sumo Group plc since January 2022. Prior to that, they held the position of Business Development Director at Firestoke from March 2021 to December 2021. Nina also served as the Head of Business Development at Tag Games from April 2014 to March 2021, where they worked on various high-quality projects for major mobile publishers. Before that, they founded their own consulting firm, Nina Cliff Consulting, where they operated as a Business Development Consultant from January 2010 to March 2015. In addition, Nina worked as a Consultant for Business Development at Tenshi Consulting from August 2012 to July 2014, and as the European Developer Relations at KISS Ltd. from June 2013 to June 2014. Nina also gained experience as the Events Development Manager at Benchmark Communications from July 2009 to July 2010, and as the Business Development Manager at Codeworks GameHorizon from June 2004 to January 2009.
Nina Cliff attended Teesside University from 1998 to 2001, where they earned a BA (2:1) degree in Marketing.
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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.