who we are
The Whitebox team has a diverse background with a strong level of expertise and knowledge in business. Together they work to develop their offering and enable not-for-profit organisations to continue benefiting from their services.
Nick Garnell – Chairman, focused on marketing, sales and content
After a degree in History Nick worked in retail as a graduate trainee for Harrods, an Area Manager for Whitbread and Operations Manager for Oddbins Wine Merchants.
As a Director of Virgin Retail from 1990 he was given the task of introducing video games into the Virgin Megastore chain and of opening a separate estate of Virgin Games specialist stores, the UKs first such chain.
Nick joined Sony Computer Entertainment Ltd, the organisation charged with launching the PlayStation, acting as Business Development Director and subsequently as MD of Psygnosis, the Sony-owned games publisher. During 1994 -1998 Psygnosis grew into a £120M turnover company.
From 1998 as President of Blue Planet Software Nick directed the commercial exploitation of the Tetris IP into all video game markets and the then-emerging mobile market. At this time the IP was also organised and packaged for its subsequent trade sale and purchase by Electronic Arts. Nick is now Chairman of Whitebox.
