Andrew Sheppard

Operator-turned-investor: Andrew combined two decades of hands-on studio leadership and product strategy with venture investing. After leading studios and publishing high‑revenue free-to-play franchises at Kabam and running GREE International, he joined Transcend as Managing Director (Feb 2021) where he sources and partners with founders building the next generation of interactive entertainment. transcend+2

Deep expertise in free-to-play and mobile games: Sheppard has led studio operations and product strategy for multiple high-grossing free-to-play titles and franchises, bringing experience in live-ops, monetization, and licensed-IP productions—skills he leverages when evaluating and mentoring portfolio teams. dicesummit+2

Board and governance experience for public and private studios: Sheppard serves as an independent director of GDEV (NASDAQ: GDEV) since August 2021 and chairs the Nomination & Compensation Committee while sitting on the Audit Committee — bringing public‑company governance, M&A and strategic oversight experience to studio leadership teams. gdev+1