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Danny Hammett
President
danny.hammett@twlk.com
 Danny Hammett has had a long and successful career in the gaming/simulation software industry. Starting as a competitive motorcycle-racer and becoming a Top 20 AMA Outdoor National Competitor and Top Ten World Gran Prix Racer, he eventually became a Technical Consultant and navigated a career change that has projected him to a CEO level, where he became an important decision maker of the now largest gaming/simulation software publishing company in the world.
In a number of earlier executive management positions, Mr. Hammett has contributed his talents to the growth and profitability of Lasersoft Corporation, Caere Corporation, and Insight Marketing. Mr. Hammett eventually joined Activision after its acquisition of Head Games Publishing (he was Founder, President and CEO) in June 1998. He served as President of Activision Value and Executive Vice President of Activision until 2003. At that time Activision was the #3 worldwide electronic sports and outdoor leisure action games/simulation entertainment publisher and producer, generating over $800-million plus in revenues with $1.6-billion-dollar market cap.
At Activision Danny managed a $695-million-dollar global publishing operation with 3 operating divisions, and 25-person executive management team overseeing 6 worldwide offices. As a start up, Danny pioneered, developed, marketed, and presold Headgames products, and drove the company to $3.5 million in sales before its inception and business launch in its first year. Head Games was the 6th leading PC games company in unit sales in America with annual revenues of over $35 million prior to the acquisition of his company by Activision. After leaving Activision, Danny joined Vivendi Universal Games as Executive Vice President where he created the Value/Casual Games Division managing all console, PC, and online product management, acquisitions, budgeting, and legal affairs. He departed Vivendi in 2006 to found Divergent Entertainment, Inc; Danny earned his Bachelors Degree at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.
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