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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" [
by 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