Richard Iwaniuk, James Batchelor and Richard Iggo Join Digital Bandidos

The young US publisher Digital Bandidos has strengthened its management team with a trio of experienced executives. Richard Iwaniuk will head up finance, Richard Iggo will lead marketing and James Batchelor will be responsible for communications.

Six months after Steve Escalante and Lance James announced the founding of Digital Bandidos, they are welcoming a number of prominent new additions to key positions. Richard Iwaniuk, for example, is now CFO and responsible for the finances. Iwaniuk has been in the industry for over 20 years and has worked for BioWare, Electronic Arts and Intel, among others.

Richard Iggo, who also has over 20 years of industry experience, including at Telltale Games, will join Digital Bandido as Head of Marketing. James Batchelor, who has almost 20 years of industry experience in leading positions at MCV, Develop and Gamesindustry.biz, will take on the role of Communications Manager.

"Adding these excellent professionals to the Bandidos team levels up the company in a big way," said Steve Escalante, CEO of Digital Bandidos. "We are not building a run-of-the-mill indie publisher. We are laser focused on creating a new, modern publisher that embraces all the challenges and needs of the industry and bringing that to the forefront of our offering. Creating a core brain trust to embrace these new tactics and strategies is essential and we couldn’t be happier with our progress."

Digital Bandidos describes itself as a full-service publisher that aims to support productions with a budget of up to 3 million US dollars for PC and console. In terms of content, the focus is on RPG, strategy and action games, but the company is also open to other genres.