Amy is a games industry professional, Twitch streamer, marketer, and kiwi currently living in Sydney, Australia. 

Amy has a creative and brand marketing background with experience across agency, freelance, and in-house teams. In late 2014, she co-founded Leaping Tiger, a technology start-up in the games industry. She has worked across many industries, in a variety of marketing roles, finding her way into esports broadcasting, and is currently APAC Marketing Director for Twitch. Amy is an experienced and highly skilled marketer, fuelled by passion for video games and growing the creator economy.

An eighties baby and a nineties kid at heart, she is most in her element in the gaming, creativity, and technology spaces. She has experience as a video game reviewer, has sat on countless games industry panels, and has a wealth of experience speaking about community, marketing, gaming and esports. Amy is also a mentor in the tech and games industry.

If you’d like to speak to Amy, she is a self-confessed social media addict; you can usually find her spending too much time on Twitter/X or Linkedin – she would love to chat!

Streaming & Presenting

With experience presenting and hosting everything from live game play to structured broadcast, Amy is skilled in formally presenting to camera for online and linear broadcast.

Hosting & Speaking

Experiences across startup, tech and games industry panels, including this one at PAX West in 2016. Amy is available to speak at or host conferences, meet-ups, and panel discussions. 

Awards and Achievements

2020 – Founded Pixel Explorers Club, a community and monthly club for curious indie game lovers
2019 – Raised US$600 in a 12hr charity livestream for WWF Australia
2018 – Finalist in MCV Pacific's Women in Games Awards (Trailblazer - Business and Esports Achievement)
2018 – Included in MCV Pacific's 50 Women in Games list
2018 – Raised US$1500 in a 12hr charity livestream for CheckPoint Org
2018 – Honourable mention in MCV Pacific's 30 Under 30
2017 – Raised NZ$1200 in a 12hr Leaping Tiger charity stream for Starship Children's Hospital
2017 – Included in MCV Pacific's 30 Under Thirty
2016 – Voted one of MCV Pacific's 100 Most Influential Women in Games
2010 – Bachelor of Design (hons) in Visual Communication, Massey University
2010 – Awarded Massey Scholar
2010 – Best Design Gold Award 
2010 – Earned membership to the International Society of Typographic Designers 
2009 – Massey Summer Research Scholarship assistant to Anne Noble
 

Employment History

2020-Present – Marketing Director at Twitch
2019 – Chapter Lead for the first New Zealand cohort of The Working Lunch games industry mentoring program
2018-2020 – LetsPlay.Live Project Lead / Marketing / Community Manager
2014-2017 – Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Leaping-Tiger.com
June 2017-Dec 2017 – Social Media and Engagement Manager at Timely
2010-2016 – Freelance Graphic Designer
Sept 2012-Feb 2014 – Senior Marketing Designer at Mitsubishi Electric NZ
Feb 2011-Sept 2012 – Graphic Designer at Cluster Creative in Wellington
2006-2011 – Jewellery Designer and Retail Assistant at Village Beads