Fandom's team of staff members help to support and grow all of our communities. We work on a variety of projects and you can turn to us with questions or concerns. Contact us using Special:Contact and let us know how we can help you with your community, and meet the members of the team below!
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Donovan
Donovan has been an avid gamer most of his life. At 15, he founded several websites to support players in Ultima Online, Everquest, and eventually DaoC and WoW. He spent 10 years at Curse, founding many properties within Curse, including Gamepedia. His favorite fandoms are Stargate, LOTR, and a handful of games he plays. He's passionate about our customers and creating incredible experiences for fans.
Gaming The Gaming team works with users on game communities, from cards to consoles.
Ben
Ben joined Curse in 2012 after founding the DayZ wiki. He co-founded Gamepedia and began expanding it into what it is today. In his spare time he loves playing games, watching Detroit sports, and animals. He used to play top level competitive CS 1.6 with team shockwave and raided WoW with Gummi Bears and Exodus achieving multiple top 10 world boss kills.
Benjamin
Benjamin got his start with games before he could even read, and even learned to read with the help of Reader Rabbit games. While he also loves books, karaoke, cooking, cartoons and fine spirits, gaming has remained his #1 passion and hobby. Benjamin joined Fandom along with all of Curse, where he was Gamepedia's first Community Manager and then spent more than five years helping build communities there.
Eva
Eva Settlers of Catan is her all-time favorite!). She thinks The Lord of the Rings is the best story ever told and gets grumpy when she doesn't get her daily work-out in.
Carrol
Role
Wiki Leader (Gamepedia)
Carrol trained as a professional librarian. Between courses, she discovered a love of computer games, starting with "The Witcher". It was while trying to find information on The Witcher that she discovered a neglected wiki and the rest is history.
Joe
Role
Wiki Leader (Fandom)
Before joining Fandom in 2007, Joe built and managed video game fansites and forums as a hobby while working in the retail industry. He also owned and operated a video game/tabletop game store in 2005-2006.
James
James came out of light speed into the Fandom Universe during the summer of 2018. Outside of being a life-long Star Wars, Marvel, and playstation fan-boy; James is an avid fan of Hip-Hop/Rap, true crime, and cooking. Some of his favorite Fandoms include the aforementioned Star Wars and Marvel Universes, Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders, and any sort of narrative based video game-- think God of War and The Last of Us.
Jada
Role
Director of Partnerships
Jada joined Fandom in 2018, working closely with the community and content. She's an avid gamer who usually roots for villains. Her main fandoms are Zelda, FF, DMC, D&D and most things Marvel/DC. She always maxes STR & LCK and lives life on hard mode while searching for the next difficulty level and pizza to replenish her HP.
TV / Movies From the small screen to the silver screen, the TV/Movies team works directly with users who are focused on their favorite TV shows and films.
Brandon
Brandon's been a Fandom user since 2006 and a member of Fandom Staff since 2010. Outside of staff work, Brandon also contributes to Wookieepedia. He's a pretty big Star Wars fan.
Lucho
Role
Director of TV & Movies
Lucho
Lucho is really excited to explore more the Fandom gaming communities since he used to work as part of the Community Support team for a video game publisher.
He likes to explore new restaurants to satisfy his palate and enjoys organizing things!
Elsa
Elsa (Hypsoline ) is Community Manager for the French Community.
She's an avid series consumer and particularly enjoys anything related to Science Fiction, having been raised with X-Files and Star Wars.
She also likes going to concerts during her free time.
Chen
Chen
When he is not at work, he loves art and likes creating stuff with wires and clay. He is also a coffee and tea lover, and likes home baking.
Bert
Bert Marvel and Star Trek universes and getting lost in the minutiae of various old TV series.
Mike
Mike Wookieepedia , and has been editing wikis since 2007. His main passion is (obviously) Star Wars, but he loves pop culture in all forms including films, television shows, books, and comics. Also, he has no problem talking about himself in the third person.
When not editing wikis, he can be found reading, playing computer games, or adding to his already extensive collection of LEGO sets. Tea plays a significant role in his life, and the day is not complete without at least several cups.
Brian
Role
Director of Partnerships
Brian works with studios, networks, and other content companies to connect them with our communities. He has been on the fan-media scene since dial-up, and loves space sagas and superheroes.
Anime The Anime team works directly with anime and manga communities, putting a new emphasis on and level of support for anime and manga properties.
Kristopher
Kristopher is a huge nerd. He enjoys everything from Dr. Who to obscure absurdist novels, and has a particularly large spot in his heart for anime and the Japanese railway network.
Zoe
Zoe started her career within game publishing and media relations in 2016, over the course of three years Zoe has worked with over 20 titles from development to launch. Now she is the Fandom Anime Community Manager! Her favorite anime is Fruits Basket and Mob Psycho 100 . On the weekends, you can find Zoe at the beach swimming with all the local mermaids!
Jenny
Jenny joined the Fandom team in 2019 but has been watching and loving anime for most of her life. Her academic background is in Japanese linguistics and culture - her favorite Japanese era is Heian, and her favorite Japanese dialect is Nanbu-ben. She also enjoys cosplay, playing video games, & overall, being a Hufflepuff.
Editor Experience The Editor Experience team is focused on elevating the tools and satisfaction for contributors.
Tim
Tim Quievryn
Will
Role
Global Community Lead
Will joined Fandom in 2019 as a Community Manager on the Gaming team, having started with Gamepedia in 2017 after a brief stint with Imzy. He is known as The Banhammer in Reddit's vibrant gaming community, plays golf, and lifts big weights for fun.
Mark
Role
Customization Specialist
Mark
Operations The Operations team covers customer support, marketing, and making sure that the day to day operations of the Fandom teams run smoothly.
George
Role
Technical Support Lead
Kirkburn not a recovering WoW-addict - indeed, he has not stopped playing since launch day in 2005, and it was joining WoWWiki a year later that got him into wikis. (He does play other games too.)
He trained as a Civil Engineer, but is not going to make any jokes about 'building bridges with the community' here.
Yura
Yura began as simple user on the Russian Lostpedia in March of 2008. In 2010, he joined the International Volunteers Team as Helper and since 2017 he has been working as a staff. His favorite fandoms are Avatar: The Last Airbender, Lost, The Chronicles of Narnia, Game of Thrones, Grimm, The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Mass Effect and other popular fantasy and sci-fi tv-series and universes.
