Alessio Cavatore

After studying biology at Turin's university, Alessio Cavatore has moved to the UK at age 25 to work as a translator for Games Workshop.

One year later he became a games developer, and has continued to do that job for the last fifteen years. For Games Workshop he has worked on several game systems and supplements, like Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

He is now the managing director of the company he co-founded River Horse Ltd, in order to publish games of his own making. The first one is Shuuro, the game of creative chess, soon followed by its four-player expansion Turanga. See:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38764
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/86877/turanga
http://www.riverhorse.eu

He also hires his games-design skills as a consultant for many gaming companies out there, like Mantic (for which he has written Kings of War) and Warlord Games.