The Warhammer Capital of the World
dispatch-media.com
dispatch-media.com
"reclusive chief executive, Kevin Rountree, of whom no public photographs exist, was named The Sunday Times “business person of the year".
Nobody has ever photographed them. Ever.
No talks, no conferences, no presentations, no public appearances, no Q&A's, no recorded video conferences, no awards acceptances, ... nothing.
The CEO. Main executive management. Set company strategy. Managing operations. Serve as main link to the company. Drive company culture. Act as public face for the organization.
Nothing. No pictures.
There's a possibility the Games Workshop wiki image is a generic stock business person place holder.
The Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan strongly asserts no image of him appears on the internet ... and yet images are returned if you search his name and profession ... they are all different.
Quoting:
"this is the first picture of Kevin Rountree, the publicity-shy boss of the company behind Warhammer miniatures"
"surfaced last week at the firm's Nottingham HQ where he was up for re-election at its annual meeting"
"He isn't interested in publicity and is not on social media"
Anyways, the original point was, that it's crazy sounding that one of the largest companies would have a CEO that nobody's seen (apparently agreed upon by the Dispatch, and the Daily Mail, and the Financial Times [2]). The image on the Warhammer wiki is possibly the same (looks kind of different than the Daily Mail pic)
Quoting Financial Times:
"its chief executive, Kevin Rountree — formerly of the firm now known as PwC, and farmer-and-British-posho apparel provender Barbour — has virtually no profile (the Sunday Times, which recently listed Rountree as one of its businesspeople of the year, had to use a photo of an Ultramarines Space Marine instead). “He’s a real person — he’s not some kind of character out of Warhammer 40k,” Ashworth-Lord told us."
"Obviously, if someone does have a photo of big Kev or wants to let us know if he’s a slandered South Shields sand dancer or similar, we’re contactable in the usual ways."
It's like the 1970s sensational stories about paparazzi camping out on hotel balconies with massive telephoto lenses to get a photo of the Kiss members without their makeup, because absolutely nobody had any idea who they might really be.