Members of the board and managing team of EFGAMP
Piotr Gnyp (Board Member)
Piotr Gnyp is Senior PR at GOG, where he works on game preservation, new business and public communication. He has been active in the games industry for nearly three decades, from early work in tabletop RPG publishing to running one of Poland’s most influential gaming websites and later working with multiple publishers in PR, marketing, business development and strategic communication. His background across media, publishing and preservation connects industry practice with cultural-heritage challenges. – something like this?
Willem Hilhorst (Board Member)
Willem Hilhorst is the Media Manager for Games and Online at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. He’s responsible for the preservation and archival of Dutch games and interactive media in playable form. With a background in games studies, as well as a master in journalism, he has been writing about games for over a decade. He serves as an advisory board member of Breda Games City and is well connected across the games industry. As a speaker he advocates for the impact and longevity of games as carriers of culture.
Natalia Kovalainen (Board Member)
Natalia Kovalainen is the Chief Archivist at Embracer Games Archive, where she leads efforts to preserve physically released games for the commercial market and celebrate the history of video games. With her background in archival work and her passion for games, her work bridges hands-on physical preservation, technology, and history. This ensures that present and future generations can access and understand the evolution of this art form. She is dedicated to maintaining the integrity of physical media and advancing best practices in game preservation on a global scale. Because we must work together to preserve games heritage.
Andreas Lange (COO)
Andreas Lange is founding director of the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin and in that role co-founder of EFGAMP in 2012. He has curated and led many exhibitions and projects on gaming culture and co- initiated ‘Art of Coding’, a campaign under which umbrella the demoscene became enlisted as first digital culture as UNESCO national cultural heritage in meanwhile seven countries (FI, GER, POL, CH, NL, SWE, FR). Andreas Lange is registered as EU expert, member of the Europeana Network Association (ENA) and currently management committee member of the COST project Grassroots of Digital Europe (GRADE).