I would have thought the Warhammer capital of the world would be in Finland or maybe Norway, where it spontaneously arose from the aura generated by all the Black Metal.
Don't know about the rest of the article, yet this part is insane sounding
"reclusive chief executive, Kevin Rountree, of whom no public photographs exist, was named The Sunday Times “business person of the year".
The company has a £6,000,000,000 market cap, and the CEO was named business person of the year by The Sunday Times for FTSE 100 leadership. Operates a global gaming business with 1000's of employees, 570 stores, 7,000 independent retailers, dozens of official events, and probably 100's to 1000's of sponsored events. Subreddit with over 1 million members, and an estimated 2.4 million+ monthly visitors to community sites. Fans known to be kind of obsessive.
Nobody has ever photographed them. Ever.
No talks, no conferences, no presentations, no public appearances, no Q&A's, no recorded video conferences, no awards acceptances, ... nothing.
The CEO. Main executive management. Set company strategy. Managing operations. Serve as main link to the company. Drive company culture. Act as public face for the organization.
What the article was actually saying was "A check on LinkedIn and a quick Google search didn't turn up anything".
It's like the 1970s sensational stories about paparazzi camping out on hotel balconies with massive telephoto lenses to get a photo of the Kiss members without their makeup, because absolutely nobody had any idea who they might really be.
There's a possibility the Games Workshop wiki image is a generic stock business person place holder.
The Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan strongly asserts no image of him appears on the internet ... and yet images are returned if you search his name and profession ... they are all different.
I would have thought the Warhammer capital of the world would be in Finland or maybe Norway, where it spontaneously arose from the aura generated by all the Black Metal.
Don't know about the rest of the article, yet this part is insane sounding
The company has a £6,000,000,000 market cap, and the CEO was named business person of the year by The Sunday Times for FTSE 100 leadership. Operates a global gaming business with 1000's of employees, 570 stores, 7,000 independent retailers, dozens of official events, and probably 100's to 1000's of sponsored events. Subreddit with over 1 million members, and an estimated 2.4 million+ monthly visitors to community sites. Fans known to be kind of obsessive.Nobody has ever photographed them. Ever.
No talks, no conferences, no presentations, no public appearances, no Q&A's, no recorded video conferences, no awards acceptances, ... nothing.
The CEO. Main executive management. Set company strategy. Managing operations. Serve as main link to the company. Drive company culture. Act as public face for the organization.
Nothing. No pictures.
What the article was actually saying was "A check on LinkedIn and a quick Google search didn't turn up anything".
It's like the 1970s sensational stories about paparazzi camping out on hotel balconies with massive telephoto lenses to get a photo of the Kiss members without their makeup, because absolutely nobody had any idea who they might really be.
I hate to break this to you but the article wrong. There are pictures of him.
Yup. The very first Google hit, https://gamesworkshop.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_D._Rountree, has a photo of him. It's in the fscking wiki for Games Workshop, the company he runs. I have no idea how TFA couldn't find this.
The Financial Times also asserts in 2024 to have no public domain image of him either: https://www.ft.com/content/369279f5-6f44-4248-a0f1-5347864ea...
There's a possibility the Games Workshop wiki image is a generic stock business person place holder.
The Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan strongly asserts no image of him appears on the internet ... and yet images are returned if you search his name and profession ... they are all different.
See: https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm
And here's a direct link to a photo of him: https://sw6.elbenwald.de/media/17/2b/b2/1707608303/E1079359_...