Nationality British Name Jon Woods | Role Game designer | |
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Born 22 July 1946 (age 78) ( 1946-07-22 ) Liverpool, England Occupation Entrepreneur
Former Video game producer Residence Altrincham, United Kingdom | ||
Organizations founded Ocean Software | ||
Jon Vincent Woods is a former UK based video game producer. In 1984, he co-founded Manchester based software development company Ocean Software with David Ward.
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After over a decade of success in the gaming industry, he sold Ocean Software to French company Infogrames in April 1996 for US$100 million.
In 2004, Woods was inducted into the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) Hall of Fame for his service to the gaming industry. Woods was an interviewee in the 2014 documentary From Bedrooms to Billions.
Everton Football Club
Woods has been a non-executive director at Everton Football Club since March 2000.
He is known to shy away from media attention at Everton and never comments publicly on current affairs at the club. He is the third largest shareholder in the club and one of only four directors.
At 2004 EGM, Woods said: "Well my colleagues have had a lot to say, as has been evident in the last few months. But this is hardly a forum where there is anything to contribute, necessarily. I’ve quite a lot to say in normal Board affairs, or the company’s affairs – so there isn’t really much more to add other than I did put my hand in my pocket to rescue this club in earlier days, though that’s all now long forgotten along with my colleagues (Bill Kenwright and Paul Gregg) here. There isn’t anything more to say."
Totalamber
In June 2013 Woods was appointed chairman of Cheshire-based Totalamber, which provides software consultancy services related to enterprise resource planning applications.