Nicolas GAUME
Senior VP
Mobile Games
Lagardère

WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS - 22, november 2005
4th INTERNATIONAL VIDEO GAME FORUM
"The New Deal..."

After creating entertainment and utility software for the Apple II as a teenager, Nicolas Gaume founded in 1990, at the age of 19, Kalisto Entertainment, a video game development studio. Over its 12 years of life, Kalisto produced more than 50 titles for PC and consoles sold worldwide. The company employed a staff of over 300 people.
Kalisto released original computer and console games such as Pac-in-Time (1994 / published by Namco), Dark Earth (1996 / published by Microprose), Ultimate Race (1997 / published by Microprose) or Nightmare Creatures (v1 in 1998 / published by Sony & Activision ; v2 in 2000 / published by Konami) and games under licences such as the Vth Element (1998 / published by Sony & Activision), Lucky Luke 2 (2001 / published by Infogrames), Adibou (2001 / published by Vivendi Universal) or Sponge Bob (2002 / published by THQ).
Kalisto also worked with such companies as Orange and Alcatel supplying them with mobile games titles and with Ncsoft and Tiscali on massively multiplayer games projects.
After going public in 1999, the company was hit hard by the turmoil of the financial markets and it had to shut down mid 2002.
Besides his Kalisto venture, Nicolas Gaume founded in 1994, NGM Productions, a children book publishing company in China. NGM published popular French series such as "Père Castor" (Flammarion) or "Les Incollables" (Play Bac) between 1994 and 1999, when the company was sold.
He also co-founded, in 1995, one of the first French web agency , Wcube, sold to Swedish group, Framfab, and, in 2000, a wine promotion site, winealley.com.
He was also board member of the French media group Sud-Ouest, of the TV animation production company, Xilam & of the German data management software publisher, NXN, sold recently to Avid.
Between July 2002 and May 2005, Nicolas has worked as a consultant advising media group such as Lagardère, AOL or Orange and game companies such as Codemasters or Ubisoft, primarily on their development strategy, management and processes.
Nicolas is now Senior VP & General Manager of the mobile games group of Lagardère.

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