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Gaming Visionaries - Benny Sum

By Jenessa McAllister

Benny Sum
Founder and Chief Design Officer
Global Gaming Group (G3)

Benny Sum is a man with an interesting past and an impressive outlook on the future. He’s currently the head of Global Gaming Group (G3), a game content design and technology integration company, and it wasn’t by luck that he made his journey through the gaming industry.

Growing up in Ghana, West Africa, Sum came from a humble, artistic family. In fact, his passion for art and design is what propelled him into the industry designing games. “He just has a natural ability to draw,” said Ki Chan, G3 chief technology officer, and Sum’s lifelong friend. “We grew up together, and I used to pick on him to draw stuff. We would make him draw things for our girlfriends! He brings things to life.” Chan is six years older than Sum, and both said they’ve always been more like brothers than friends.

A combination of his passion for art and his desire to learn about computers is the reason Sum came to college in the U.S. “I was probably one of the last people that graduated high school without learning computers,” Sum said. “I felt an urge to use a computer after that.”

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