Jacki Vause

About me

Jacki Vause is a distinguished speaker, entrepreneur, investor, and mentor with over 30 years of experience in enterprise, technology, and gaming. As the Founder and CEO of Dimoso and Co-Founder of Global One Communications, she is a trailblazer in the world's tech PR landscape. Jacki co-hosts the popular podcast The Rest is PR, which has garnered a significant international audience and features in-depth discussions on various aspects of the PR industry.

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With an impressive portfolio that includes working with leading entertainment companies like BBC, Channel 4, and Disney, Jacki has managed major communications projects for clients such as GE, AT&T, and Panasonic. Her expertise in growing gaming giants from scratch like Rovio with Angry Birds has made her an invaluable resource for startups and scaleups alike.

Jacki's career began in IT publishing, and in 1996, she founded her first PR agency, Flapjack. The agency quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the top 150 PR businesses while catering to technology companies entering the internet era. After successfully breaking into the US market with communications firm Peppercomm, Jacki founded Dimoso in 2011, a creative and innovative all-service marketing and communications agency specialising in mobile games and technology. In 2022 she returned to her publishing roots to launch web 3 publication Metacrun.ch.

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Today, Jacki is a leading figure in the world of Web3 and the growing tech and games industry, guiding businesses into the metaverse, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. As a regular speaker at international conferences and events. Most recently, Jacki has keynoted at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto and Helsinki, Gamesforum London and Berlin, and iKnowledge Forum Cartagena. 

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Jacki has been a single mother throughout her career and knows from first hand the challenges that today’s women face. She has dedicated much of her free time to mentoring women within the industry and was instrumental in creating the popular https://womendontplay.com/ Women Lifting Women program.

She is actively mentoring a number of young women through this platform and also through the GameChangers network. Jacki lectures for the Schools of journalism for the University of North Carolina and the University of Texas and is a member of the Lords Taverners charity.