About our team

Tom Fisher, CEO

Tom Fisher is a Serious Games and Simulation-Based Training Facilitator with over 30 years of experience in scenario and games development. He has designed and developed thousands of games and simulated exercises over the years, including the Crime Analysis Simulation Exercise System (CASES) for the World Bank’s Financial Market Integrity and Stolen Asset Recovery group, Aftershock: A Humanitarian Crisis Game and Aftershock Expansion #1: The Gender Dimensions of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, and MaGCK the Matrix Game Construction Kit. Tom also has extensive experience in game facilitation with both small and large (100+ participants) groups. For more information about Tom’s experience in the field of serious games and simulation-based learning, refer to his catalog of games and published works. 

Mirna Chadaide. CFO

A graduate of HEC, Mirna is an accomplished CPA with 15+ years of experience in financial and managerial accounting. She brings not only her accounting acumen to Imaginetic, but provides essential analytic advice to the table for games development and troubleshooting.

Lucie Anav, Senior Advisor Strategy and Operations

Lucie is an international cooperation and development professional with 10+ years of experience both at HQ and field levels in conflict and fragile state environments. She holds a double Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Political Science from the Jean Moulin University of Lyon III, as well as a Master’s Degree in International Security and Public Policy (Jean Moulin University of Lyon III + Hebrew University of Jerusalem). She also holds degree in Comparative Law, focusing on Japan’s legal system. She joined INTERPOL in 2013 to support the International Partnerships and Development Directorate, and later the Regional Police Services where she developed and coordinated police events and training. Since 2015, she has been providing project management, business development and strategic planning services for the United Nations, including in South Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan, towards the achievement of the SDGs.

Julis Koch, Senior Advisor and Research Lead

Julis Koch is  a PhD Researcher in the anthropology and sociology department at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is passionate about learning, and particularly interested in exploring the parameters of creative game design, humanitarian pedagogy and innovation. Her current research project about the socio-cultural, organizational and political dimensions of the ‘before’ of emergencies raises critical questions about the role of serious play in transforming organizations. Apart from a previous stint in the technology start-up sector, where she held both commercial and operational roles, she made important academic pit stops at SOAS in London, UK and University College Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Scott DeJong, Senior Advisor and Developer

Scott DeJong (He/Him) is a PhD candidate and researcher in Concordia’s Communication studies department. He holds a B. Ed., a BA in cultural studies, and an MA in media studies from Nipissing University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Concordia University respectively. He studies disinformation, educational game design, and serious play. 

Scott’s dissertation research blends research creation practice with traditional research methods to study the disconnect between disinformation sharing practices and current media literacy endeavours. His recent work has led to the publication of an educational board game (Lizards and Lies) discussing conspiracy theory in social media. Scott’s game design began with escape rooms, where he designed serious games about digital media echo chamebrs, filter bubbles, and social issues like older adult mistreatment. Scott’s design philosophy focuses on play centred design, where communicative networked design builds from interactive play spaces. He has studied themes of wargaming, cybergaming, analog, and narrative game design which all bleeds into his current work.

James Brown, Senior Advisor Civil-Military Coordination

James is an extremely experienced humanitarian and disaster response manager who has planned disaster relief operations and led teams in extremely challenging environments all over the world. He has a vast amount of practical experience of conducting disaster assessments, managing operations, ensuring team safety, and facilitating multiagency field coordination during natural  disasters, conflict, and post-conflict situations. He is one of 8 UK sponsored United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordiantion (UNDAC) team members.  He completed the induction course in 2003 and has participated in 15 missions as Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader, or Civil Military Coordination Officer and Security Focal Point. His last mission he was a Coordination Hub Team Leader in the Turkey Earthquake in 2023.

James is an expert in facilitating the coordination between humanitarian organisations and the  military (CMCoord). He is an  extremely knowable and very professional person who has worked for Donors, NGOs, the United Nations, NATO, and the private sector which gives him a unique understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in running effective disaster response and humanitarian operations. He has a very large professional network in the disaster response/humanitarian community  which he works hard to maintain by participating in many exercises and conferences around the  world. 

Patrick Dresch, Senior Advisor Disaster Response

Patrick Dresch is a virtual and games-based learning researcher with the Simex Series in the UK. He has a particular interest in exploring subjects such as accessibility, empathy and agency in the learning environment, particularly through his work in developing table-top exercises for student on the University of Portsmouth MSc programme in crisis in disaster management. Patrick also enjoys looking at innovative ways to train, and promotes games-based learning solutions through articles, lectures for students and learning professionals at HM Coastguard, and developing exercises with the Simex Series, Serve On and the British Red Cross. In his spare time he is also undergoing USAR training with Serve On, and developing accessible games for fundraising, and to raise awareness among the wider public of what urban search and rescue operations involve.

Louis Jeffries, Senior Advisor Military Foresight and Analysis

Louis Jeffries is an Analyst within the QinetiQ Wargaming and OA Team. A keen and analytical thinker, with a passion for problem solving and making sense of complexity, Louis has considerable experience of designing, facilitating and analysing both analytical and training-focussed wargames. With a broad knowledge of how wargaming and serious gaming can be utilised and applied in different environments and contexts, he is able to quickly design and engage with the key analytical questions and requirements which underpin an exercise, and has assisted in the development and delivery of wargaming and analytical training to promote best practise within the industry. Louis has also sought to understand and engage with numerous domain-specific and defence-adjacent areas, evidenced through experience of delivering Cybersecurity training as part of the NCSC’s Cyberfirst Programme, and exploring issues and risks surrounding ‘futures’ technologies through wargames whilst formerly employed at DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory).

As a recipient of a scholarship to join RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), Louis has engaged with military personnel, defence stakeholders and the wider industry to obtain a broad view of problems from multiple perspectives, and at different levels, challenging assumptions throughout. Able to utilise appropriate process modelling and visualisations, Louis is passionate about making information accessible to a broad audience, and outside of work is a keen hobby gamer with broad interests across historical, sci-fi and fantasy systems and games. A recipient of a Master’s Degree in History, where he studied the Prussian General Staff and its use and implementation of wargaming and new technologies during the 19^th Century, Louis is motivated to understand and contextualise decision-making and critical factors, and utilise wargames and serious gaming to build knowledge, efficiency and resilience at many different levels and across sectors

Elçin Ada Sayin, Senior Advisor

Ada is the coordinator of the Women in Command Project, funded by US Embassy Ankara, NATO Public Diplomacy Division and supported by NATO Chief Scientist’s Office with KizBasina (Just-a-Girl) NGO where she was the project manager for the Hybrid Threat Rising game. The Hybrid Threat Rising game became Turkey’s first game dealing with hybrid threats, the first game to be developed for training women leaders, the first game to be designed and led by a woman and the first game to be presented in an international wargaming conference. The game also obtained the International Serious Play Awards’ Golden Medal and became a finalist at the MS&T Awards of 2022.

Ada acted as a Design Team Lead for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Crisis Working Group to design a TableTop Exercise working with world’s leading social media tech companies and worked directly with representatives from Meta, YouTube, Tech Against Terrorism, FBI and many more.

Currently, Ada leads the Leader Women Community formed of women between the ages 18-30 who want to pursue a career in defence, bringing them together with industry experts, organising workshops and orientation activities. Lastly, she became the co-lead of Fight Club International’s Türkiye Chapter (Fight Club Türkiye) and a member researcher to the NATO STO’s SAS-172 Research Task Group on Multi-Domain Operations Wargame.

L. Berke Çaplı, Senior Advisor

Nicolas Touillier, Senior Advisor Security and Risk

Shavonne Sherman Senior Advisor NGO Operations

Claire Travers, Senior Advisor Humanitarian Logistics

Corinne Preisler, Senior Advisor Healthcare 

Brian Train, Senior Advisor Military Simulations