Kevin Rountree

The new CEO of Games Workshop. He took over for Tom Kirby starting in 2015[1].

His full is Kevin Derek Roundtree, remember him.

Under his direction GeeDubs has started a wide array of changes, both in business strategies, crunch and fluff, so far we got 12 Start Collecting sets for different armies for both games with, surprisingly, ACTUAL SAVINGs; for example, you buy a Crisis Suit Team, and for a little more cash you get a Fire Warrior team and a semi exclusive Ethereal on a hoverboard, or even better, you can pay for a Carnosaur and they will gift you a Saurus Knight box and 12 Saurus Warriors FOR FREE.

This is too good, almost too much to be true. Sadly the latter may be the case, as signs of the usual douchebaggery appeared, with attempts to stifle the lore-mending of Josh Reynolds and the axing of a certain undead not-Egypt faction and a certain Arthurian not-France faction.

However, they've also taken to social media, and appear to be developing an actual comprehensive FAQ for 40k, not to mention bringing points back to Fantasy. These are all signs that Rountree might actually care about their games as games and not just a means to sell models.

On an interesting note, the coming of Kevin Rountree bears similarities to the direction of both Warhammer settings; after apocalyptic events which outright destroyed the old universe or nearly consumed reality, we see the emergence of a great leader, who, after facing great loses, decides enough is enough, and formulates a game-changing plan to make its domain come back from the brink; of course, both imply new armies of super-armored guys, but we also got new factions or revampings of old classics into new and cool models (we just hope no more Taurox or Lords of Skulls, seriously, sometimes it's just no).

Only time will tell if Kevin does actually care about the community.

Update as of June 2016: HOLY SHIT HE BROUGHT BACK SPECIALIST GAMES AND ALLOWED MODS IN TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER, PRAISE BE UNTO OUR MESSIAH! HE ALSO GAVE US DEATHWATCH, GENESTEALER CULTS, AND PLASTIC HORUS HERESY! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! AND DID WE MENTION THAT HE BROUGHT FUCKING DAEMON PRIMARCHS INTO 40K?!

Yet more exploits from the lord of GW

• Regimental Standard
• Warhammer Community
• Custodes in PLASTIC
• plastic SoB (well, Celestine at least. It's a start)
• He also re-hired a certain someone, FFFFFF... no-one's perfect. But wait! Their writing has overall improved and the only sign is the return of Roboute Guilliman (whose sudden character development has turned Papa Smurf into quite a cool guy). That's right, it looks like things are on such an upswing, even the Spiritual Liege himself has improved, such is the power of the Lord of GeeDubs.
• AN ADEPTUS MECHANICUS ARMY HOLY SHIT.
• As of March 2017, Lord Kevin has managed to cause shares to nearly double in value, pushing Games Workshop stock to its highest level ever.
• He's making a new edition of Talisman. NOW we are back to being about GAMES, not just Warhammer.
• Primarchs (both loyalist and traitor) in 40k.
• AND wait, what, 8th? 8th is by most accounts pretty good. Sure, it's a little rough around the edges right now, but the majority of the changes seem to be for the better, and time will likely smooth out most of the bugs.
• Yet again more Start Collecting!, for Slaanesh Daemons, Beastclaw Raiders, AND FYRESLAYERS. The first one has an Exalted Chariot, which is just a regular Chariot and a Hellflayer combined; the second only has 2 plastic kits, but this will make it unnecessary to buy Stonehorns/Thundertusks ever again while pumping your Mournfangs to up max size in no time. The third one has A FUCKING MAGMADROTH. Yes, it is straight-up a dropped price, one of the few (or maybe the first) price reductions. and one of the biggest, because it includes 10 Berzerkers in the math, and GW stopped selling Magmadroths individually. Might sound a wee bit tragic? Yes, but in the end, they will sell more and we will buy more bloody awesome magma salamanders.