Lee Kirton

Lee Kirton was featured as one of the 30 under 30 rising stars of the games industry in 2006. He has also been behind some of the most unique campaigns across thousands of hit franchises whilst supporting many worldwide developers, studios and movie IP.

Throughout Lee's career in the entertainment industry he has managed some of the biggest licenses, studio relations, new IP and major franchises as well as produced products and built concepts from the ground up.

Lee has built trailers, created story boarding, music and assets, building passionate strategies and presentation. He has also proudly worked with some of the most creative talents in movie and video game development presenting and even representing key movie directors, producers and talents within the development of game studio projects from Paramount, Warner Bros and Fox.

He has supported and championed incredible projects from studios, Epic, Reflections, Quantic Dreams, Namco, Slightly Mad, Ninja Theory, Frontier, Starbreeze, CD Projekt, 3D Realms, ID, Shiny, Sega, The Farm 51, Tarsier to name a few. He was a key player in the launch of ‘Driver’, ‘Duke Nukem’, Dark Souls, ‘Abe’s series’, ‘Unreal series’, Enter the Matrix/Path of Neo, Project CARS, Enslaved, Ni no Kuni, The Witcher series etc.

Lee is a firm believer that working hard, being creative and a passionate person is key to the entertainment business. Marketing and developing projects have helped him gain a broad overview of the publishing/distribution/development business whilst having a major interest in development.

Lee produced the first ever 'Driving Theory exam' title in the UK (Creating assets and acting as Producer) for the Nintendo DS (sales of over 70,000 UK). Finding a gap in the market allowed success.

Today, Lee continues to build strategic marketing, PR, event and social campaigns for the UK market exploring new product opportunities for third party publishers, innovation and development for Bandai Namco Entertainment.