Spil Games: the moments that make people smile
Casual games: precious moments in people’s lives where we engage and absorb them in a different world… and we make them smileFast facts
Established in 2004
Privately owned
Based in Hilversum, Holland's 'media city'
Company repositions as a game publisher in 2014
Uses proven free-to-play games model
Growing revenue
Players in 150 countries
History
The management team
Our team has strength and depth in business, finance, IP rights and people management. They are also passionate and knowledgeable about games.
TIMM GEYER
CEO
Timm has a collaborative management style engaging everyone at Spil Games in the business of maximising the commercial potential of our products.
Timm established a management team with Jacqueline Wièrdak and Mathijs Seegers and together they have responsibility for the different areas within the business. The company’s portal and advertising teams report directly to Timm.
He already had two years as COO at Spil before taking over as CEO in May 2018. He reports directly to the Spil Games board.
He is highly experienced in gaming and the media having worked in senior positions for companies including ProSiebenSat.1, Splitscreen Studios, Bigpoint and AOL.
He holds a law degree from the University of Kiel and an executive MBA from the Hamburg Media School.
JACQUELINE WIÈRDAK
GENERAL COUNSEL AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
Jacqueline has long experience as an executive in the gaming industry having been at Spil Games for eight years.
She is a key part of the management team, overseeing legal, human resources, recruitment and corporate communications. She also acts as the company’s corporate secretary and general counsel.
She advises on IP rights, privacy, corporate governance and the complex laws that apply to games in the countries around the world. This experience is proving vital in her current role on the management team.
Before Spil Games, she was an attorney for more than ten years, as well as a senior policy adviser at the Dutch Data Protection Authority. She holds a law degree from the University of Leiden and has a postgraduate qualification in IT law from Grotius Academy.
JACQUELINE WIÈRDAK
GENERAL COUNSEL AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
Jacqueline has long experience as an executive in the gaming industry having been at Spil Games for eight years.
She is a key part of the management team, overseeing legal, human resources, recruitment and corporate communications. She also acts as the company’s corporate secretary and general counsel.
She advises on IP rights, privacy, corporate governance and the complex laws that apply to games in the countries around the world. This experience is proving vital in her current role on the management team.
Before Spil Games, she was an attorney for more than ten years, as well as a senior policy adviser at the Dutch Data Protection Authority. She holds a law degree from the University of Leiden and has a postgraduate qualification in IT law from Grotius Academy.
MATHIJS SEEGERS
CFO
As part of the management team, Mathijs leads Spil Games’ finance, business intelligence, marketing and technology departments. He is also responsible for support functions including corporate development, facilities and office IT.
His role is to ensure the smooth running of the planning and data functions that support Spil Games products.
Mathijs has an extensive background in financial control, business analysis and business control having worked previously at ABN Amro and Deutsche Bank.
He has a master in political science and an executive master in finance and control from the University of Amsterdam.
KARA OLTHOF
DIRECTOR OF PORTALS
Kara brings together skill in analysing game data with expertise in front-end web development to ensure her team gives players and advertisers on our portals the ultimate experience.
She has risen within Spil Games to head the portal team and so understands the complexity of creating interfaces which engage users while operating on multiple devices in a global market.
She started out as a front-end web developer working to exacting standards in HTML and CSS.
KARA OLTHOF
DIRECTOR OF PORTALS
Kara brings together skill in analysing game data with expertise in front-end web development to ensure her team gives players and advertisers on our portals the ultimate experience.
She has risen within Spil Games to head the portal team and so understands the complexity of creating interfaces which engage users while operating on multiple devices in a global market.
She started out as a front-end web developer working to exacting standards in HTML and CSS.
THIJS TERLOUW
DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY
Thijs combines over 10 years of hands-on technical experience as a backend developer and architect with an interest in business development. He helped build much of what is currently powering the Spil portals. With a small but dedicated and skilled team he runs an automated and scalable stack in the public cloud.
In his role as Director he ensures that daily operations run smoothly and that we prioritize the various technical projects to maximize business value. Besides managing, Thijs enjoys still doing code-reviews and rolling out changes to microservices or infrastructure.
Thijs has a master in computer science from Delft University of Technology and worked for five years at Tencent in China.
TOM HOENCAMP
HEAD OF MONETIZATION A.I.
Tom is an online advertising professional with nearly 10 years of experience. As Head of Monetization, he is responsible for all the advertising activities including affiliate marketing within Spil Games.
Together with his team, he manages billions of ad impressions every month. Goal is to enable our partners to find the best suitable target audience and to show relevant advertisements to our players.
Tom is always exploring new opportunities to facilitate the ad inventory better. SPIL Games is among one of the first European publishers to implement header bidding on a large scale.
He started his Spil Games journey 5 years ago as a Yield manager and grew to the position he holds now. Prior to SPIL Tom worked at several large news publishers, including De Persgroep and Wegener media.
Tom is holding a bachelor degree in Management, economics and law and studied Online Marketing and Business intelligence alongside his day to day job.
TOM HOENCAMP
HEAD OF MONETIZATION A.I.
Tom is an online advertising professional with nearly 10 years of experience. As Head of Monetization, he is responsible for all the advertising activities including affiliate marketing within Spil Games.
Together with his team, he manages billions of ad impressions every month. Goal is to enable our partners to find the best suitable target audience and to show relevant advertisements to our players.
Tom is always exploring new opportunities to facilitate the ad inventory better. SPIL Games is among one of the first European publishers to implement header bidding on a large scale.
He started his Spil Games journey 5 years ago as a Yield manager and grew to the position he holds now. Prior to SPIL Tom worked at several large news publishers, including De Persgroep and Wegener media.
Tom is holding a bachelor degree in Management, economics and law and studied Online Marketing and Business intelligence alongside his day to day job.