Visionary Awards honor Microsoft’s Sarah Bond and Arkane’s Dinga Bakaba
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Two leaders who are making a difference in outstanding gameplay, diversity, and gaming as a business are the winners of this year’s Visionary Award and our Up and Comer Award at the GamesBeat Summit 2022 event.
This year, our committee of 10 industry judges honored Sarah Bond, corporate vice president at Microsoft and Dinga Bakaba, studio head at Arkane Lyon, a division of Bethesda, for our Visionary Award and Up and Comer Award, respectively.
Tammy McDonald, CEO of Axis Game Factory and a venture partner for Griffin Gaming Partners, hosted the awards, which began in 2018 as a way to honor industry leaders who showed a real vision for the future.
Our past winners for the Visionary award include Rand Miller, cofounder of Cyan and co-creator of Myst; Ted Price, founder of Insomniac Games; John Smedley, studio head at Amazon Game Studios San Diego; and Laura Miele, the top gaming executive at Electronic Arts.
Our past winners for the Up and Comer award were Eve Crevoshay of Take This and Natasha “ZombaeKills” Zinda. This award honors someone who is an up-and-comer when it comes to achievements in the game industry. It isn’t based on age or experience in the game industry. Rather, it recognizes that the biggest potential of the honoree lies ahead of them.
This year’s panel of judges included past winners such as Eve Crevoshay, Ted Price, and Natasha Zinda. Other judges included Tammy McDonald, Dean Takahashi, Shelley Andagan, Don Daglow, Cathy Simpson, and Ivan Fernandes Lobo.
And this year we have a prize that will immortalize the winners in digital form. Christina Heller, CEO of Metastage, has offered to
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