Robbie Douek
CEO of BLAST
Robbie is CEO of BLAST, the global competitive entertainment company.
BLAST is famous for pioneering the esports category through stunning high production quality, big creative ideas and game changing fan-first moments. Bringing together the biggest teams and brightest superstars to fight it out for glory and big-money-multi-million-dollar prize pools in the world’s biggest arenas from London and Singapore to Austin and Rio.
BLAST works with world-leading game publishers Epic Games, Valve, KRAFTON and Ubisoft to produce, market and deliver esports for popular titles Rocket League, Fortnite, Rainbow Six, PUBG and Counter-Strike 2.
Prior to BLAST, Robbie was Vice President Digital, EMEA, for The Walt Disney Company. He joined Disney in April 2015 as Managing Director, EMEA for Maker Studios (acquired by Disney).
Before joining Disney, Robbie worked at Google based in Paris and London, where he occupied three different positions – the last being Head of Branding & YouTube Solutions across SEEMEA. Robbie joined Google in July 2010 through Google’s acquisition of AdMob.
Panels Featuring: Robbie Douek
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