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I hate to break this to you but the article wrong. There are pictures of him.

pseudohadamard 9mo ago
Yup. The very first Google hit, https://gamesworkshop.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_D._Rountree https://gamesworkshop.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_D._Rountree, has a photo of him. It's in the fscking wiki for Games Workshop, the company he runs. I have no idea how TFA couldn't find this.
- defrost 9mo ago
  The Financial Times also asserts in 2024 to have no public domain image of him either: https://www.ft.com/content/369279f5-6f44-4248-a0f1-5347864eacf7 https://www.ft.com/content/369279f5-6f44-4248-a0f1-5347864ea... There's a possibility the Games Workshop wiki image is a generic stock business person place holder. The Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan strongly asserts no image of him appears on the internet ... and yet images are returned if you search his name and profession ... they are all different. See: https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm
pseudohadamard 9mo ago
And here's a direct link to a photo of him: https://sw6.elbenwald.de/media/17/2b/b2/1707608303/E1079359_1.jpg https://sw6.elbenwald.de/media/17/2b/b2/1707608303/E1079359_...
araes 9mo ago
This was a large enough issue, there's a Sept 20th, 2025 Daily Mail, This is Money article titled "REVEALED: Boss behind Games Workshop's £5bn Warhammer boom" [1] Quoting: "this is the first picture of Kevin Rountree, the publicity-shy boss of the company behind Warhammer miniatures" "surfaced last week at the firm's Nottingham HQ where he was up for re-election at its annual meeting" "He isn't interested in publicity and is not on social media" [1] https://archive.is/r6t8C#selection-953.76-953.176 https://archive.is/r6t8C#selection-953.76-953.176 Anyways, the original point was, that it's crazy sounding that one of the largest companies would have a CEO that nobody's seen (apparently agreed upon by the Dispatch, and the Daily Mail, and the Financial Times [2]). The image on the Warhammer wiki is possibly the same (looks kind of different than the Daily Mail pic) Quoting Financial Times: "its chief executive, Kevin Rountree — formerly of the firm now known as PwC, and farmer-and-British-posho apparel provender Barbour — has virtually no profile (the Sunday Times, which recently listed Rountree as one of its businesspeople of the year, had to use a photo of an Ultramarines Space Marine instead). “He’s a real person — he’s not some kind of character out of Warhammer 40k,” Ashworth-Lord told us." To the point of openly requesting a picture: "Obviously, if someone does have a photo of big Kev or wants to let us know if he’s a slandered South Shields sand dancer or similar, we’re contactable in the usual ways." Credit to @defrost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563037 for the FT link. [2] https://archive.is/2h16k#selection-37545.5-37587.1 https://archive.is/2h16k#selection-37545.5-37587.1

Yup. The very first Google hit, https://gamesworkshop.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_D._Rountree https://gamesworkshop.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_D._Rountree, has a photo of him. It's in the fscking wiki for Games Workshop, the company he runs. I have no idea how TFA couldn't find this.

defrost 9mo ago
The Financial Times also asserts in 2024 to have no public domain image of him either: https://www.ft.com/content/369279f5-6f44-4248-a0f1-5347864eacf7 https://www.ft.com/content/369279f5-6f44-4248-a0f1-5347864ea... There's a possibility the Games Workshop wiki image is a generic stock business person place holder. The Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan strongly asserts no image of him appears on the internet ... and yet images are returned if you search his name and profession ... they are all different. See: https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm

pseudohadamard 9mo ago

And here's a direct link to a photo of him: https://sw6.elbenwald.de/media/17/2b/b2/1707608303/E1079359_1.jpg https://sw6.elbenwald.de/media/17/2b/b2/1707608303/E1079359_...

araes 9mo ago

This was a large enough issue, there's a Sept 20th, 2025 Daily Mail, This is Money article titled "REVEALED: Boss behind Games Workshop's £5bn Warhammer boom" [1] Quoting: "this is the first picture of Kevin Rountree, the publicity-shy boss of the company behind Warhammer miniatures" "surfaced last week at the firm's Nottingham HQ where he was up for re-election at its annual meeting" "He isn't interested in publicity and is not on social media" [1] https://archive.is/r6t8C#selection-953.76-953.176 https://archive.is/r6t8C#selection-953.76-953.176 Anyways, the original point was, that it's crazy sounding that one of the largest companies would have a CEO that nobody's seen (apparently agreed upon by the Dispatch, and the Daily Mail, and the Financial Times [2]). The image on the Warhammer wiki is possibly the same (looks kind of different than the Daily Mail pic) Quoting Financial Times: "its chief executive, Kevin Rountree — formerly of the firm now known as PwC, and farmer-and-British-posho apparel provender Barbour — has virtually no profile (the Sunday Times, which recently listed Rountree as one of its businesspeople of the year, had to use a photo of an Ultramarines Space Marine instead). “He’s a real person — he’s not some kind of character out of Warhammer 40k,” Ashworth-Lord told us." To the point of openly requesting a picture: "Obviously, if someone does have a photo of big Kev or wants to let us know if he’s a slandered South Shields sand dancer or similar, we’re contactable in the usual ways." Credit to @defrost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563037 for the FT link. [2] https://archive.is/2h16k#selection-37545.5-37587.1 https://archive.is/2h16k#selection-37545.5-37587.1