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Executive
Andrew Ayre, CEO, became
majority shareholder of Other Ocean Interactive in June 2007. Prior, he was a
co-founder, Co-President and former Executive Director of
Foundation 9 Entertainment where he helped grow the company
into the largest independent video game developer in
North America with 11 studios and 750 employees. Andrew
maintains a West Coast business presence for the PEI
studio in Emeryville, California. Throughout his career,
Andrew has played a key role in M&A, corporate
development, business development, key relationships and
strategy. Prior to Foundation 9, he co-founded and served
as President of Backbone
Entertainment.
In 1992, he co-founded Digital Eclipse, where he served as President
from January 1995 until it's merger with Backbone
Entertainment in 2003. Andrew grew up in Newfoundland and has a B.A. degree in
Government from Harvard
University.

Management
Deirdre ("Beep") Ayre,
Studio Head, has over 20 years experience
working in the entertainment industry. She has developed
concepts, written and produced programs, corporate videos
and countless commercials for the broadcast industry. She
has also worked with a number of small and medium sized
businesses taking an idea, evaluating, writing plans, and
establishing successful enterprises. She has extensive
experience in evaluating projects for funding and
investment purposes for both federal and provincial
governments and the private sector. During her time with
the company, Deirdre has been involved with and
responsible for all aspects of studio management. She has
overseen and been responsible for the successful
development of projects for Xbox 360
Live Arcade and
has recently begun development for licensed handheld
projects and other downloadable titles. She is certified
with several national communications organizations and
has a degree from Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute with a concentration in Production.
David Fanjoy, Senior Producer, holds
a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick and a Post Graduate Diploma in
Applied Information Technology. He has over 8 years of
Senior Project Management experience. His first project
with the company was the highly anticipated Castlevania:
Symphony of the Night for the Xbox 360
Live Arcade. He
came to the company from Spielo Gaming International, one of North Americas
leading Video Lottery Gaming Companies, as a Senior Game
Development Manager. While at Spielo, in addition to his
involvement with third party intellectual property, David
was responsible for over seeing the development and
successful delivery of over 40 of the industrys top
video lottery games.

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Other Ocean Interactive Ltd.
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