Now a freelance consultant in techmedia, games and animation. He was previously CEO / Executive director with UK animation / entertainment software company Short Fuze Limited which was developing Moviestorm (digital animation for amateurs (www.moviestorm.co.uk)). A start up funded by NESTA, IQ Capital, GEIF, Create Partners and Cambridge Angels, where he recruited the management team for the two original founders
He took the company from a bedroom idea in October 2006, built a team of 17 people, built the company and all the infrastructure, raised $6m over 2 1/2 years, completed and launched the commercial version of Moviestorm, built and launched a community website, built the online shop and started taking revenue from content sales. The company grew through the pioneer and into the early mass adopter stage of 25,000 registered users and significant downloads by December 2008 and 27,000 by January 2009.
Other info and profile
Running the Gauntlett Finalist 2004/5 Best Structured Deal Award 2007 East of England - Most Improved Company (GEIF) 2007 East of England Rising Star Finalist (CEN) 2008 English Tech Tour 2007 SIME Innovation Day 2008 Coverage on BBC Technology Page, FT, Sunday Telegraph, PC World, Mac Format and more Cambridge Tigers of Tomorrow featured company NMBX Featured Company ETRE featured company 2008 SIME 2008 Essential Mediatech Top 100 European companies
David Bailey previous owned and managed VC and PE funded computer games companies in the UK and India since 2000.
David is a Chartered Accountant (13 years with Deloitte, 1987 to 2000), ACA, MInstD, GIBiol, MA (Oxon.) MSc (Oxon.)
