Esports Insider sat down and spoke with Mark Hatter, Director of Mark Hatter Associates and CEO of Akolyte, the former of which is a safeguarding firm and the latter an esports coaching platform.
During our chat, Hatter discussed his recently-published white paper and how his companies address the lack of safeguarding policies and child protection in many facets of esports.
Although Hatter doesn’t have a seasoned tenure in esports, he has more than 30 years of experience in child protection and safeguarding. When Tyler Bond, Akoylte’s co-founder, came to Hatter with the prospect of establishing an esports coaching platform, he was surprised to find such little acknowledgement and regulation of child protection and safeguarding in the professional side of esports.