Jason Kingsley (businessman)


Jonathon Jason Kingsley is the co-founder and CEO of video game developer Rebellion.

Background

Kingsley was born in Osgathorpe, Leicestershire. He attended Loughborough Grammar School and then Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College. He read zoology at St John's College, Oxford.
Kingsley established the company in 1992 with his brother Chris. Kingsley is also the chairman of The Independent Game Developers' Association. In 2012, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
In 2016, Kingsley launched a medieval history YouTube channel called Modern History TV, of which he is the creator, producer, writer, and presenter, along with his brother Chris Kingsley, and senior producer Brian Jenkins, under the banner of Rebellion Productions.