Danne W.

About

Strategic investor at NetEase Games, partnering with game studios and venture funds through equity deals, LP commitments, and other partnerships. I work across commercial, product, and financial domains, with a focus on investment due diligence and post-deal governance. A gamer at heart, I enjoy reading widely about the industry. Some newsletters I recommend are Naavik (@naavik_co), SuperJoost (@joosterizer), GameMakers (@jokim1), Game World Observer (@GWObserver), InvestGame (@InvestGameNet). Before gaming, I worked in the digital advertising and insurance industry. I also have technical know-how working with databases (SQL, Presto, Hive, BigQuery), dashboarding (Tableau, Looker Studio) and programming (Python, R).

Experience

• Game Investments at NetEase Games
  May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  Strategic investments, FoF, VC/PE

• Vertical Strategy Lead, Gaming at Meta
  Oct 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  Helping 2.5 billion gamers across the world discover and play great games.

• Senior Analytics Manager at Essence
  Oct 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  Part of GroupM and WPP, Essence manages over $4B of digital media spend and is Google's global digital agency for over a decade.

• Consultant at CXA Group
  Jan 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

  Series B insurtech platform serving more than 400,000 users in 600 companies.

• Consultant at Willis Towers Watson
  Aug 2013 - Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  Third largest insurance broker in the world operating in more than 140 countries.