Mike Tinney was running his own live action role-playing games and working as one of the editors for White Wolf's Mind's Eye Theatre when he became the line manager for Mind's Eye Theatre.
[1]: 223 Tinney was one of the contributors to the Creature Collection from White Wolf's Sword & Sorcery imprint.
[1]: 225 In 2002 Steve Wieck stepped down as President of White Wolf, and Tinney became the new President; under Tinney, White Wolf underwent big changes, starting with significant alternations and updates to the World of Darkness.
[2] On 11 November 2006, CCP Games and White Wolf jointly announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the Eve Online Fanfest 2006.
White Wolf Publishing became a wholly owned independent subsidiary of CCP with Tinney remaining as the president of CCP North America | White Wolf,[3][4] until he left in 2012 to join a games-health startup.