Debbie Bestwick is CEO of Team17.
Debbie Bestwick is CEO of Team17. She will hand over the reins at the end of 2023.
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Debbie Bestwick’s roller coaster journey at Worms publisher Team17

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Debbie Bestwick has been in the games business for 31 years, and she has known nothing else. Starting with her first job in a game store in the United Kingdom, she stayed put and grew up with gaming. As CEO of game publisher and developer Team17, she is one of the veterans of gaming.

That’s why it was interesting to hear her talk at the Gamelab event in Barcelona about the roller coaster journey she has been on at Team17, which rocketed to stardom as the publisher of the Worms franchise.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.