David Banner

David Banner MBE (born November 1972) is a Welsh video games and interactive film designer, producer, director and entrepreneur. Also known in the video games and interactive film industries as “Dai”. He is the co-founder and CEO of video game and interactive film developer and publisher Wales Interactive. Biography Banner was born on 1 November 1972 in Rhondda, Wales. He attended Treorchy Comprehensive School and Tonypandy Comprehensive School, then Mid Glamorgan Centre for Art, Design and Technology. He then received a Graphic Design degree at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he graduated in 1995 with a first-class honour. After graduating, Banner started his professional video game career in London as an artist and designer for video game developer and publisher Domark, which later became Eidos Interactive. In 2007 Banner became a visiting lecturer at University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales). With his participation at the University of South Wales, a separate course for a degree in game art was created.