Andy Brammall, Unity’s regional gross sales director and senior program supervisor for over 11 years, has handed away.
The Brammall household shared the information that Andy handed away abruptly on June 6 by way of his LinkedIn web page. They remarked on the significance of his 40-year-plus profession to him, and the way it was a robust a part of his id.
“Andy’s 40+ 12 months profession was extraordinarily essential to him and a robust a part of his id,” the household wrote. “He very a lot appreciated the entire many, and sometimes shut, friendships {and professional} relationships he was in a position to make over these years. He actually liked and valued his work and neighborhood, whether or not within the biomechanics or video games industries.”
The announcement submit has seen an outpouring of messages from colleagues {and professional} those that Brammall met through the years.
“Andy was a beautiful human who made such a distinction to the Trade,” Ukie board member and Video games Management director Melissa Phillips wrote. “He was a fierce supporter of BAFTA Younger Recreation Designers competitors and gave up his time to assist with various workshops, juries and occasions. Sending my condolences to the household.”
In keeping with his LinkedIn profile, Brammall joined Unity in April of 2010 as regional gross sales director, the place he was answerable for direct gross sales of Unity to recreation devs in EMEA till June 2017. He then returned to the corporate in February 2021 as senior program supervisor of the video games division, offering consulting and contract improvement providers to recreation studios utilizing Unity till January 2024.
After a restructuring program in Unity that resulted in widespread layoffs, Brammall was moved right into a senior consumer associate function within the specialist gross sales group, the place he labored with SpeedTree, SyncSketch, and Unity Cloud merchandise. As he mentioned within the description of his 11 months on the function, regardless of “vital development in gross sales,” the funding for the group was withdrawn in November 2024, and the group was made redundant.
4 months in the past, Brammall wrote a prolonged submit about this expertise, saying that it was “fairly well timed,” matching a three-week vacation to Japan, his first go to to the nation, the place he was in a position to go to his daughter who was working there in the meanwhile. Shortly after returning to the UK, Brammall turned a grandfather.
“I used to be not ready for the way charming and exquisite a rustic it’s and so wealthy in historical past,” he wrote on the time. “The chance to relive many scenes from Zelda was a fantastic pleasure and it’s an expertise that may dwell with me ceaselessly.
“I feel that if I had nonetheless been actively working I’d not have been in a position to react in such a robust strategy to these experiences and so leaving Unity gave me the time, house and cash to take action.”
Within the video games trade, Brammall was additionally the director of Enterprise Video games Consulting for over three years, senior supervisor of developer relations in EMEA at Magic Leap for 4 months, European gross sales supervisor at Havok, and extra.
“Andy’s pleasant and personable demeanor makes him a standout colleague,” mentioned Franco Spina, senior supervisor in recreation design and income consultancy at Unity, in a LinkedIn suggestion. “His approachability and real heat not solely make working collectively fulfilling but additionally foster an surroundings of open communication and collaboration. It is uncommon to search out somebody who combines such a nice persona with excessive skilled requirements, and Andy does this effortlessly.”
