Jonathan Quinn
Aardman
Jonathan is currently the Technical Director of Aardman's recently founded internal games studio, building PC, console, and mobile titles, as well as guiding various internal R&D projects. He has shipped titles across many gaming platforms in several companies, in senior, lead, head of department, and TD roles—managing large engineering teams. He helped found a robotics gaming start-up that raised over $12m, scaled from 4 to 70 people, and sold robots in Apple stores around the world. Jonathan's educational background includes a BSc, PhD, post-docs, and an Associate Lecturer role at Cardiff University. He has received a leadership award from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a scholarship for the Oxford High Performance Leadership Programme. He is an industry speaker and mentor, a contributor to national STEM projects, and an advisor to the Royal Academy of Engineering on education in UK engineering.
