Simon Cornwell

Simon has 30 years experience in TMT and Media, as well as 12 years as a technology VC Partner. Simon is currently Founder & CEO at The Ink Factory, a leading digital film production company founded in 2010 in London and Los Angeles. The Ink Factory is best known for global television hit ‘The Night Manager’ and for 2019 feature film ‘Fighting With My Family’, starring Florence Pugh and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. The Ink Factory also co-founded LA-based games studio Giant Squid with one of the industry’s top talents, Matt Nava. Giant Squid is the creator of Abzu and the forthcoming The Pathless, which debuts at the core of Apple Arcade, as well as on the Epic store and PS4. Simon came to The Ink Factory from top European VC firm Amadeus Capital Partners, where he was a Senior Partner and sat on the Investment Committee. Simon oversaw a number of investments in technology, communications and media, and exits included two IPOs and successful sales to Samsung and Marvell. Prior to that he was the founder and CEO of Two Way TV, a pioneering company in the field of interactive TV. Simon’s very first outing in the media world was as captain of his college’s University Challenge team. They lost ignominiously in the first round, cutting short a stellar TV career.