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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Video Games space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Arthur Madrid
CEO and co-Founder of Pixowl
Arthur Madrid is the 30 years-old founder and CEO of Wixi.com. Wixi is a web-based social media network where users interact by privately sharing media content — including photos, audio and video. His web career began in 2000 as founder of 1-Click Media 1-click.com (acquired by Ipercast in 2007) , a peer-to-peer video delivery software for television networks. Arthur expanded the product’s reach to serve many top European Video On-Demand Web sites. The 1-Click plug-in is used by more than one million people globally to speed downloads and significantly decrease bandwidth cost. Arthur can be found online at http://twitter.com/arthurmadrid and http://facebook.com/arthurmadrid. He currently lives in Buenos Aires where he runs the main Wixi office.
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About Pixowl, The Sandbox: Pixowl is working to build a big entertainment family brand on mobile.
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Ken Martin
CEO & Co-Founder of GreenPark Sports
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About GreenPark Sports: GreenPark Sports is a social sports gaming developer designed to create a virtual sports environment for sports and eSports fans.
Richard Bernardino
Founder & CEO, Software Architect of Orchidware Studios
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About Orchidware Studios, Project Blue Butterfly, Project Shrub, Project Umami: Fun, exciting, fascinating video games for players of all ages to enjoy.
Victor Lazarte
Co-founder and CEO of Wildlife Studios
Victor Lazarte holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from USP and École Centrale de Paris and a degree in Owner/President Management from Harvard Business School. He began his career at JP Morgan London but decided to return to Brazil in 2010 to start Wildlife with his brother Arthur. Victor has an active role in business strategy and organization building. He currently lives in the U.S.
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About Wildlife Studios: Wildlife Studios is a gaming company that develops and publishes mobile games.
Walter Driver
Co-Founder, Chairman & Co-CEO of Scopely
Walter Driver is the co-founder, Chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer of Scopely, one of the fastest-growing mobile-first video game companies. Scopely creates and publishes a highly-diverse portfolio of top-grossing, immersive game experiences, including: the award-winning ”MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command” and”Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others, which are played by hundreds of millions of players worldwide. Fueled by a world-class team, Scopely leverages its proprietary technology platform Playgami to bring directed-by-consumer, interactive experiences to audiences around the globe. Under Walter’s leadership, the company has achieved billions of dollars in lifetime revenue and attracted more than $1 billion in financing from leading venture capital firms, tech luminaries and cultural icons.
Walter has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential Young Executives” by The Business Journal, “Visionary of the Year” by C-Suite Quarterly, “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young, a “Young Global Shaper” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs and a “Dealmaker of the Year” by Variety. Under Walter’s leadership, Scopely has also received many recognitions, including: “Best-led Company” in 2021 by Inc. magazine, “Private Company of the Year” in 2021 by Los Angeles Business Journal, a four time “Best Places to Work” winner by Built In LA, and a two time “World’s Most Innovative Companies” winner by Fast Company. Scopely has also been recognized on top charts such as Deloitte’s “Technology Fast 500,” being named the second fastest-growing technology company in North America and in the Top 10 mobile app charts for consumer spend.
Walter is an investor and advisor to many private technology companies as well as a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Technology & Innovation Council. Prior to Scopely, Walter founded and served as CEO of O Negative Media where he developed online social games. Before O Negative, he co-founded Ignition Interactive, one of the first developers of third-party applications for Facebook.
Walter holds a B.A. in English Literature from Brown University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Javier Ferreira
Co-CEO & Board Member of Scopely
Javier Ferreira is the co-CEO of Scopely, one of the fastest-growing mobile games companies in the West. A longtime digital media and technology executive with 15+ years of experience in gaming, Javier joined Scopely in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer to expand its business operations, strategy, slate and partnerships. In 2016, he became President, overseeing all aspects of day-to-day operations and joined the Scopely Board. In 2019, he became co-CEO with co-founder Walter Driver. Since Javier joined the business in 2014, Scopely has scaled 35x with a highly-diverse, top-grossing games slate, including the award-winning MARVEL Strike Force, Scrabble® GO, Star Trek™ Fleet Command and YAHTZEE® With Buddies, among many others. Javier’s leadership has helped Scopely achieve accolades such as recognition in Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and Entrepreneur’s “30 Startups to Watch” as well as ranking #2 on Deloitte’s “Technology Fast 500” and #9 on Inc. magazine’s “Inc. 5000” as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America. In 2019, Javier was also recognized by Variety as a “Dealmaker of the Year.” Prior to Scopely, Javier served as Senior Vice President of Games Publishing at Disney Interactive, where he oversaw a large slate of mobile, console and online digital properties—helping establish the brand as a world-class publisher with over 500 million downloads and $1 billion in revenue during his tenure. Earlier in his career, Javier served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Europe at JAMDAT Mobile, which was acquired by Electronic Arts during his tenure for $680 million. Javier helped build the JAMDAT business into a top mobile games publisher in Europe. Following the company’s exit, Javier served as Vice President of Publishing at EA where he drove the brand’s global strategy and technology investments across the EMEA region, as well as expanded international distribution and closed a wide range of strategic partnerships with major IP holders. Javier began his career in gaming at Telefónica Mobile as Head of Product, Games. Javier holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Warwick and a M.S. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Clark Stacey
CEO of WildWorks
Clark Stacey is the Co-Founder & CEO of WildWorks, attended University of Utah.
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About WildWorks: Leading developer of online free-to-play games for players of all ages.
Anthony Borquez
Founder & CEO of Grab Games
Anthony is experienced in building and scaling creative tech businesses. His first company he co-founded, Spacient Technologies, was an early mobile GPS software platform that was acquired by Trimble Navigation. Anthony’s prior game company, Blue Label Games, built some of the first mobile gaming technology and content. In 2006, Blue Label Games was acquired by Japanese gaming leader Konami. The acquisition helped enable Konami’s mobile gaming division to become a top worldwide mobile game publisher. Anthony is also a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Gaming.
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About Faceroll Games, Flightly, Grab Games, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
John Krajewski
Founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games
John Krajewski is founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games, a studio focused on evolving the classroom by connecting entertainment and educational games. He is currently the designer of the US Department of Education funded ecology game ‘Eco’ and the forthcoming National Science Foundation funded ‘Exo’. His background is the console games industry, having worked at EA and Midway prior to founding Strange Loop. After founding Strange Loop Games in 2009, he has led development on 6 titles including a suite of games for Amplify Education, and the Steam and Playstation Indie hit ‘Vessel’.
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About Strange Loop Games: Strange Loop Games is an video game developer.
Gabe Newell
President & Owner & CEO of Valve Software
Gabe Newell is the President & Owner & CEO of Valve Corporation. Gabe held a number of positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions during his 13 years at Microsoft. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company’s multimedia division, and leading efforts on the Information Highway PC. Then he started Valve. His most significant contribution to Half-Life, the company’s debut title, was his statement: “C’mon, people, you can’t show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.”
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About Steam, Valve Software: Valve is an American entertainment software and tech company developing video games and other related technologies.
Vlad Korolev
CEO & Co-Founder of Gunzilla Games
Vlad Korolev is the CEO and Co-Founder at Gunzilla Games.
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About Gunzilla Games, PLINK: Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games.
Andrew Wilson
Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts
As CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson has aligned the company around three core strategic pillars: putting players first, driving a digital transformation and operating as one team. During Andrew’s tenure as CEO, EA has launched groundbreaking new games and services, reached record player engagement levels across its global franchises, and transformed into one of the world’s leading digital entertainment companies. Andrew has held several positions during his over 15 years at EA, providing leadership on product and brand development for both packaged goods and digital services. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2013, Andrew served as executive vice president of EA SPORTS and Origin where he oversaw all aspects of the EA SPORTS business and development, as well as EA’s digital PC service. Andrew has also led EA’s Online Organization overseeing the direct-to-consumer business, Asia Online Publishing as well as the EA studio in Seoul, Korea. In addition, he previously served as vice president and executive producer of all EA SPORTS FIFA games, growing the property into one of the largest videogame franchises of all time.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Jesse Zhang
CEO and Founder of Lowkey
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About Camelot.ai, Lowkey, Lowkey: The home for watching and creating short gaming videos
Hao Li
CEO & Co-Founder of Pinscreen
Hao Li is Founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc., and Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Director of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm. For his contributions in non-rigid shape registration, human digitization, and real-time facial performance capture, Hao received the TR35 Award in 2013, recognizing him as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35, from the MIT Technology Review. He was named Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in 2015, and was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant the same year. He won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2018. He is best known for his work on dynamic geometry processing, facial animation, and data-driven techniques for making 3D human digitization and facial animation accessible to the masses. During his PhD, Hao co-created the first real-time and markerless system for performance-driven facial animation based on depth sensors. The team later commercialized a variant of this technology as the facial animation software Faceshift (acquired by Apple Inc. in 2015 and incorporated into the iPhone X in 2017). He was brought on as visiting professor at Weta Digital to build the high-fidelity facial performance capture pipeline for reenacting the deceased actor Paul Walker in the movie Furious 7 (2015). His recent research focuses on combining techniques in Deep Learning and Computer Graphics to facilitate the creation of 3D avatars and to enable true immersive face-to-face communication and telepresence in Virtual Reality.
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About Pinscreen, University of California Berkeley: Revolutionizing digital communication and online human interactions with user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars.
Josh Williams
Co-Creator + CEO of Gowalla
A visual designer by trade, Josh Williams is co-founder and CEO of [Gowalla](/organization/gowalla-exploration), an augmented reality gaming company. Gowalla gets it’s name from it’s nostalgic and innovative Austin-based influence [Gowalla Inc.](/organization/gowalla), where Williams lead the pioneering and adoption of location-based technologies for everyday social sharing experiences.
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About Gowalla: Gowalla is an augmented reality social game.
Albert Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Genopets
10+ years in growth marketing as owner of multiple e-commerce businesses. 10+ years in software development with 4 years focused in blockchain engineering. Winner of EOS Global Hackathon in 2018.
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About Cocoon Worldwide, Genopets, masklab: Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
Christian Ferri
CEO of Geer™
Former PwC technology executive and expert in DLT and digital currencies, focusing on the intersection of gaming, brands and blockchain. Speaker at 60+ events and conferences across the world, including the World Economic Forum, the S&P 500 Global Platts and the Blockchain Economic Forum. DLT expert guest on CNBC, Al Jazeera, RT, Forbes, BBC, Millionaire and Coin Telegraph. Cross-vertical advisor to several companies including Atari, Lottery.com and Swarm Fund. Venice born. Palo Alto based.
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About Geer™, NFTPRO™: Premier NFTs platform for blue-chip brands
Jeffrey Tong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zelos Gaming
Jeffrey Tong serves as the CEO and founder of Zelos Gaming.
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About Zelos Gaming: Zelos is a cross-game rewards program that enables gamers to earn points by completing in-game tasks and redeem virtual prizes.
Strauss Zelnick
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Take-Two Interactive Software
Strauss Zelnick, a partner in ZelnickMedia since 2001, became Chairman of Take-Two in March 2007 and Chief Executive Officer in January 2011. Mr. Zelnick is currently Chairman of ITN Networks and serves on the boards of directors of Naylor LLC, Alloy, Inc. and Starwood Property Trust, Inc. In August 2013, Mr. Zelnick was elected Vice Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. In 2014, Mr. Zelnick was elected Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. Prior to forming ZelnickMedia, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment, a $4.7 billion music and entertainment company. Mr. Zelnick’s appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment followed his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company’s North American business unit from 1994 through 1998. Before joining BMG Entertainment, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Dynamics, a leading producer and distributor of interactive game software. Prior to that, he spent four years as President and Chief Operating Officer of 20th Century Fox, where he managed all aspects of the worldwide motion picture and distribution business. Previously, he spent three years at Vestron Inc. as a senior executive, and rose to become President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Zelnick also served as Vice President, International Television for Columbia Pictures. Mr. Zelnick holds an MBA and a JD from Harvard University and a BA from Wesleyan University. He is an associate member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America and is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University.
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About Take-Two Interactive Software, ZMC: Take-Two Interactive Software is an American publisher, developer, and distributor of video games.
Stanley Adrianus
CEO & Founder of Gamenauts
Stanley is currently the founder & CEO of Gamenauts, a games developer/publisher in San Francisco Bay Area. The company has remained profitable and 100% self-funded since its founding in 2005. Gamenauts maintains a portfolio of several Top 10 titles in the App Store and over 16 million mobile downloads. Prior to Gamenauts, Stanley was Lead Designer at Yahoo! Games, where he was responsible for the UI/UX when the site grew to be #1 games portal on the web.
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About Gamenauts, Plato: Gaemnauts is a game developer and publisher of applications for mobile devices.
Ann Hand
CEO of Super League Gaming
Ann Hand is one of a handful of women who have risen to the top ranks of the energy industry. Hailing from Indiana, Ann has spent a significant amount of her career overseas and holds a BA in Economics from DePauw University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. In her career at BP, she most recently served as SVP of Global Brand, Marketing and Innovation, where she played a key role in making things “a little better” by developing new and compelling ways for consumers to engage with the BP brand, overseeing $300 million annually in marketing initiatives worldwide. Prior to that, Ann held the position of chief executive of the multi-billion dollar Global Liquefied Petroleum Gas business unit where she had full P&L accountability across 15 countries, oversaw 3,000 employees and increased operating profit by 250-percent. As CEO of Project Frog, she is leveraging the company’s game-changing innovation to grow markets, develop new products and increase brand awareness for its industry-leading smart buildings. Ann is on a mission to revolutionize how buildings are built and redefine standards for how they perform…she intends to make the construction industry a lot better.
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About Super League Gaming: Super League Gaming hosts recreational video game league events in movie theaters.
Jesse Reich
CEO And Founder of Splinterlands
Jesse Reich is the CEO And Founder at Splinterlands.
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About Splinterlands: Splinterlands is a decentralized, digital collectible trading card game built on blockchain technology.
Shail Mehta
Co-Founder, CEO of Last Gameboard
Shail has a passion for gaming. She has a financial background working for hedge funds and venture capital funds, she has consulted for the Nuclear Regulatory Committee, City University of New York, City & County of Denver ‘s $254M RTA project and Triunity Engineering. She has managed teams and executed projects throughout her career. Shail is the driving force for the vision and future for TLG.
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About Last Gameboard: Last Gameboard is creating a digital tabletop gaming platform that merges physical and digital play experiences.
Angela Antony
Founder and CEO of Scoutible
Angela Antony is the Founder and CEO of Scoutible, the world’s first game-based hiring platform, which uses machine learning to track soft skills through gameplay and uncover the best candidates for a job. Angela spent nine years at Harvard, focusing her psychology, business, and law degrees on labor market issues across society. After Harvard, she worked at the White House under Obama as part of the National Economic Council, during which time she was writing a book about her Harvard research titled Invisible Handcuffs, which ultimately became the primary research underlying Scoutible. Scoutible was recently named one of Inc Magazine’s 8 Most Innovative Startups of the Year and Angela was named to Inc’s Female Founders 100 list.
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Nicholas Zaldastani
CEO, Chairman of Crocpond
Nicholas is a Mentor Capitalist leveraging his venture capital and serial entrepreneurial experiences. Known for his startup success rate, Nicholas Zaldastani(shvili) focuses on entrepreneurship and organizations that positively impact the world. Mr. Zaldastani’s investments and executive leadership contributed to the growth of corporations such as: Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL, the #1 database company worldwide), SABA (NASDAQ: SABA, the leader of Human Capital Management), Open Horizon (a pioneer in Enterprise Application Integration), World Energy Solutions (NASDAQ: XWES, the market leader of energy procurement systems), Salary.com (NASDAQ: SLRY, the pioneer of compensation management ASP solutions), Allegro Multimedia (the pioneer in using musical instruments as input devices to computer games), CrocPond (the pioneer of educating and inspiring key universal principles through entertainment), NEXUS (pioneers in single token payment systems), and BrainTap Technologies (the Spotify for mindfulness focusing on meditation and peak performance). In addition to Mr. Zaldastani’s operational leadership, his eleven years as a venture capitalist brought solid returns to his investors. His professional affiliations have included: World Energy Board of Directors; Allegro Multimedia Board of Directors; The Ivan and Sam Cancer Foundation, Co-chairman of the American Academy in Tbilisi, Georgia; Director of the Georgian Association in the United States of America; Chairman, the Crocodiles not Waterlilies Board of Managers; and Chairman, NEXUS payment; and board member of Dr. Oz’s non-profit HealthCorps. In the development of the Country of Georgia, Mr. Zaldastani has supported Georgia’s economic recovery plans and educational expansion. He was part of the U.S. delegation attending the inauguration of President Saakashvili and on the U.S. Presidential visit of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bush, Mr. Zaldastani welcomed Former First Lady Laura Bush to the American Academy in Tbilisi. Mr. Zaldastani received his M. B. A. from Harvard University School of Business, a French Diploma from the University of Paris, and Bachelors of Science degree from Duke University. He was a team member receiving the CLIO International Award for Advertising. Mr. Zaldastani lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Crocpond: CrocPond is a series of theme-based apps based on the award-winning CrocPond animal characters.
Wayne Mackey
Founder/CEO of Statespace
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About Statespace: Statespace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential.
David S. Bennahum
CEO / CTO of Ready
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About Alpha Partners, Ready: Ready democratizes gaming with The Ready Games- DIY game tournaments- and Ready Maker, a platform for gaming and robotics.
Michael Williams
President & CEO / Co-Founder of Oomba
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About Glytch, Oomba: Oomba is a specialized digital media company bringing elegant organization to sports and games.
Frederic Descamps
CEO & Co-Founder of Manticore Games
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About Manticore Games: Manticore Games develops Core, a platform to build, share, and play online games.
Nick Earl
CEO of Glu Mobile
Nick Earl is the President of Worldwide Studios at Kabam, a leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Nick oversees the strategy and development of Kabam’s games across the company’s global studios, including hit franchises such as Marvel Contest of Champions, Fast & Furious and Kingdoms of Camelot. A 20-year industry veteran, Nick previously served as senior vice president and general manager at EA Mobile, where he oversaw such free-to-play hits as The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims Free Play and Real Racing 3. Prior to EA Mobile, Nick was senior vice president of EA Games launching franchise games such as Knockout Kings, James Bond, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings and Dead Space. He also served as the Vice President of Product Development at Eidos and as Executive Producer and General Manager at The 3DO Company. Nick graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Glu Mobile: Glu Mobile is a technology platform developing entertainment-focused freemium games for smartphones and tablet devices.
Jong-Wook Shin
Founder, President and CEO of iiRcade
Results-driven, customer and consumer-focused executive with vision, dedication and drive to succeed. Visionary leader with strong entrepreneurship and innovation experiences as a founding CEO of an award-winning startup and vice president of innovations at LG Electronics. Winner of 2018 CES Innovation Award and Startup of the Year finalist recognitions at CES, IFA, Smart Kitchen Summit, Startup Conference. Recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious ‘Outstanding Top 45 Asian American in Business’ award in 2010 and Sony Mobile Presidential Award in 2011. 22+ years of experiences in the consumer electronics and mobile industry, leading organizations and creating innovative products with amazing experiences at Motorola, Sony Mobile, Intel, LG and HOPii. 16+ years of experiences in product management, product planning, product strategy, portfolio management, business strategies and business management. 18+ years of team management experiences and 8+ years of executive leadership experiences. 12+ years of strong experiences in disruptive innovations and entrepreneurship with startup experiences, new experience products and disruptive innovations creation accomplishments. Comprehensive knowledge and experiences in managing products from concept to launch and beyond. Strong business and technical skills. A dynamic self-starter with proven ability to resolve complex challenges in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Extensive experiences in customer and vendor management, and managing projects in both matrix organizations and startup environment. Excellent leadership skills from various executive leadership experiences. Kellogg MBA. Excellent people skills and highly persuasive negotiator. Strong communication and presentation skills. Great team player who is very dependable, very hard working and always makes a difference. Committed to professional excellence and success.
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About iiRcade: Bringing Arcade Gaming to the 21st Century
Alexander Casassovici
Co-Founder & CEO of Azarus
Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with a strong experience in the mobile and consumer electronics industry. Based in Paris, France, he holds both a telecommunication engineer degree and an MBA. He created notably : * WaveStorm : wireless security solutions and wireless connected devices (including Meccano/Erector’s Spykee spy robot) * Kamayo : rich media mobile agency sold to Streamezzo group * VR-Wear : virtual reality headsets for the gaming industry Highly business oriented he also acts as a consultant for VCs during due-diligence phases and as a business angel.
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About actvt, Azarus, Diveboard, Mobitrends, Showdown.cc: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Alex Casassovici
Co-Founder and CEO of Azarus
Alex is the founding partner of Bitflare Technologies, a blockchain-focused consulting firm specializing in blockchain architecture & token design. His previous venture, Showdown.cc, revolutioned the way game telemetry is used to build in-game communities. He’s an international speaker to world class events such as GDC.
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About Azarus, Diveboard: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Brian Grigsby
CEO of Good Shepherd Entertainment
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About Corsa Ventures, Good Shepherd Entertainment: Good Shepherd Entertainment (formerly Gambitious Digital Entertainment) is a Dutch video game publisher based in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Carter Russ
Founder & CEO of Champions Round
I am an entrepreneur with a passion for creating exceptional products and building fantastic working cultures. I am the founder and CEO at Champions Round. I’m interested by sports tech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, physics, investing, art and music, and pretty much anything nerdy or cool under the sun.
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About Champions Round: Fantasy & sports betting operator offering hyper casual skill based contests.
Robin Raszka
CEO of Alter
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About Alter: Avatar infrastructure for the open metaverse and web3.
Joe Martin
Founder and CEO of Snatch
Forensic scientist turned entrepreneur and tech company founder. Joe has used his background in to behavioral psychology to take the unlikely step into brand and mobile marketing to huge effect. His first venture ‘Snatch’ – a mobile marketing platform packaged as augmented reality treasure hunt hit the #1 spot on the UK app stores in 2017 and fast became the #1 customer acquisition platform for the majority of over 200 brand partners thanks to the productization of his deeper level understanding of consumer behaviour that resulted in average offer redemptions of 34% (industry average 2%-5%) across a 9 month test period that accumulated over 1 million active users and resulted in Joe being invited to speak at some of the worlds most prestigious tech and marketing events from SXSW, CES, Founders Forum and Cannes Lion. He now returns with his second venture ‘Tickle’ to once again challenge the stat quo and to once again prove that advertising can and should entertain and reward.
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About Snatch, Tickle Global: Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.
Joshua Barrow
Founder & CEO of Game Taco
Founder and CEO of Game Taco, Inc
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About Game Taco: Game Taco is an online skill-based video game tournament destination for cash entry fees and cash prizes.
Seth Sivak
Co-Founder & CEO of Proletariat
Seth Sivak is Founder & CEO of Proletariat.
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Niko Vuori
Founder & CEO of Drivetime
Founder & CEO Drivetime, co-founder & COO of Rocket Games, product at ToyTalk & BranchOut, GM Zynga Poker, founder & CEO Informifi.
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About Drivetime: Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive.
James Zhang
CEO of CAH Holdings Group
James is the Founder and CEO of Concept Art House, a leading creative service provider to top performing mobile games. In a 7 year span, he has successfully guided the company to secure funding from North America, Europe and China. James lead the company to an acquisition and IPO in UK stock exchange in April, 2012, resulting in exponential positive returns for seed investors. In July, 2013, James lead the CAH shareholders to successfully buy back all company stock. In March, 2014, James successfully secured series A financing from one of China’s leading mobile game companies to form Spellgun. Spellgun is the comprehensive publishing solution for bringing top mobile games from North America to China market. James is a regular contributor to international industry events and publications, such as ImagineFX, Fantasy Magazine, Inside Social Games, Chinajoy, Casual connect, and Game Developer Conference. He is advisor to the Bay Area Council and also Supertales Inc. a Marin based mobile app company. In a career spanning 15 years, he held positions as concept artist, art director, and studio executive.
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About CAH Holdings Group, Concept Art House, Spellgun: CAH Holdings Group is a provider of game art development services for the video gaming industry in the United States.
Paul O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of MediaTech Ventures
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About Cleantech Open, DivInc, GroupCharger, MediaTech Ventures, MediaTech Ventures, SEO’Brien, Texas Venture Growth Fund: Venture development group, employing a proprietary framework connecting capital and advancing opportunities in modern media.
Lyle Hall
President & CEO of Heavy Iron Studios
A 24-year industry veteran, Lyle Hall oversees Heavy Iron Studios, Inc. Before joining Heavy Iron in early 2002, Lyle created and produced original and licensed properties while working at DreamWorks SKG, Crystal Dynamics and Virgin Games. Highlights include the first 32-bit character action game, GEX; Westwood Studio’s original RTS, Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty; RoboCop vs. The Terminator, Cool Spot and Global Gladiators, SEGA’s1992 Game of the Year. During his time at Heavy Iron, Lyle has also served as Executive Producer on Disney*Pixar titles, The Incredibles, its video game sequel Rise of the Underminer, Ratatouille, WALL-E and UP and as well Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob’s Truth or Square, directing production and development of these franchises across multiple studios and directly managing the relationships with these illustrious media companies. In mid-2009, Lyle single handedly took Heavy Iron independent and since then has shepherded the release of UFC Personal Trainer on the Xbox360, PS3 and Wii, Harley Pasternak’s Hollywood Workout for the Xbox360/Kinect and Wii and was most recently Executive Producer on Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, Disney’s Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two on the Wii U and Disney Infinity for the Wii U and Wii and Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes on PC and iOS.
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About Heavy Iron Studios: Heavy Iron Studios is an independent video game design company that makes products for Disney.
Will Deane
Founder & CEO of Rainmaker Games
Will Deane is the Founder & CEO at Rainmaker Games.
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About Rainmaker Games: Rainmaker Games is now offering a new and interesting way to invest in a portfolio of GameFi NFTs that can be used to earn blockchain games.
Alex Peake
CEO of Primer Labs
Alex Peake is the founder and CEO of Primer Labs, a startup that creates endless learning games to make all knowledge playable. Alex founded the alternative fashion company Tactical Corsets in 2009. Alex was the editor of Agile Journal, a web & mobile applications developer at Sling, and lead animation editor at Atomic Cartoons.
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About Primer Labs: Code Hero: A game that teaches coding
Craig Lund
Co Founder & CEO of Mightier
Craig Lund is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Mightier.
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About Mightier: Mightier is a gaming platform and family program scientifically-proven to help kids regulate their emotions.
Brian Wilneff
CEO, Founder of GamerzArena
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About Alpha Metaverse Technologies Inc, GamerzArena: GamerzArena provides everyone with the platform to compete in eSports for cash prizes or sponsored product at any time.
Sarah Hill
CEO & Chief Storyteller of Healium dba StoryUp Studios
Sarah Hill is the CEO of Healium and an interactive media tech professional with 25 years building successful platforms. Healium is the world’s first biometrically powered VR/AR channel controlled by the user’s brain and heart rate via their wearables. Hill is a former interactive TV news journalist for the NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri. A national Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America, National Sigma Delta Chi, and 12 time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller, she spent decades reporting about the world’s negativity and trauma in 5 continents.
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About Healium dba StoryUp Studios: Healium is an augmented and virtual reality channel powered by consumer wearables for the self-management of anxiety and sleep
David Bialek
Co-Founder & CEO of ReKTGlobal
With over 25 years in the sports marketing & media world, Dave made the jump to esports with his co-founding of ReKTGlobal. Dave has spearheaded the creation of multiple advertising platforms in the place-based, streaming media and sports advertising space. He is credited with building two groundbreaking initiatives in collegiate sports. First, he led a sales team to create the iconic Allstate Field Goal Net program in NCAA Football. Second, he invented a “profile” position on NCAA and NBA basket stanchions, with which State Farm has become synonymous. The stanchion sign is widely considered to be the most impactful signage position in all of sports. For this latest pursuit, Dave became a recipient of the prestigious Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award. His work in the traditional sports marketplace can be seen far and wide, and he’s bringing the very same creative approach to the esports ecosystem.
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About ReKTGlobal: ReKTGlobal is a business authority in e-sports and competitive gaming.
Neil Young
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of N3TWORK
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Vince Zampella
CEO of Respawn Entertainment
Vince Zampella is Co-Founder at Nuclear Division.
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About Nuclear Division, Respawn Entertainment: Respawn Entertainment is an independent video game development studio located in the San Fernando Valley.
Aron Beierschmitt
Co-Founder, CEO of Laguna Games
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About Laguna Games: Laguna Games is a research and game development studio that specializes in making blockchain tech.
John Fazio
Founder & CEO of Nerd Street Gamers
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About Jarvus Innovations, Jarvus Innovations, Nerd Street Gamers: Nerd Street Gamers is a national network of eSports facilities and events dedicated to power competitive opportunities for gamers.
Justin Bailey
Founder & CEO of Fig
Mr. Bailey has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fig since he started the company in November of 2014. Mr. Bailey has been active in the video game industry from an early age, programming his first graphic adventure game in assembly at age 8. His first job was selling games at a software store called Babbage’s, which eventually became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the video game retailer now called GameStop Corporation. Mr. Bailey’s work in video games includes experience publishing a variety of free-to-play, premium and mobile games, such as Broken Age (FKA Double Find Adventures), Massive Chalice, Middle Manager of Justice, and Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter. Since 2008, Mr. Bailey has secured over $100 million in game financing from publishers, investors and crowdfunding, resulting in returns totaling over $250 million. Mr. Bailey previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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About Fig: Fig is a crowdfunding platform for video games.
Ken Bretschneider
CEO & Founder of Evermore Park
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About Evermore Park, THE VOID: Evermore is an Experience Park: a place to explore, wonder, and discover
Giovanno Yosen Utomo
Co-Founder and CEO of Fulldive
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About Fulldive: Fulldive Browser – browse, chat on any page and earn coins for your data, available on iOS and Android | Fulldive VR – #1 VR app on Android.
Brian Fargo
CEO & Owner of inXile Entertainment
Brian Fargo has been in the games business since its infancy having founded Interplay Entertainment in 1983. Interplay became a top 5 PC games publisher in the mid 90’s having produced some of the biggest franchises of all time including Bard’s Tale, Wasteland, and Fallout. Interplay also helped to launch the careers of some of the biggest developers such as Blizzard, Bioware, and Treyarch. While at Interplay, Fargo brought Universal/MCA in as an equity partner and later took Interplay public in 1998. In addition, Fargo has served on the board of the IDSA, given key speeches at the industry’s leading shows and most recently was the keynote at GDC China. Fargo formed inXile entertainment in 2002 and has just recently raised just under 3 million dollars with crowd sourced funding via Kickstarter for the newest project Wasteland® 2.
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About inXile Entertainment, inXile Entertainment: inXile Entertainment is a video game development studio that offers Bard’s Tale, Wasteland, and Torment.
Andrew Paradise
CEO & Founder of Skillz
Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Double Picture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Julie Uhrman
Founder & CEO of OUYA
Julie Uhrman is a video game entrepreneur. She is founder and CEO of OUYA—an innovative gaming console that enables any developer to publish a console game by bringing the mobile app model to the TV. OUYA is a powerful, beautifully designed, open and inexpensive alternative to traditional game consoles. Julie started in the game business ten years ago. Before launching OUYA, she held several executive roles with video game companies such as GameFly, IGN (where she led digital distribution and business development) and Vivendi Universal. Julie loves to play games: she plays platformers, 3rd person shooters and she loves playing games on a TV. But the last few years, she’s played more on mobile phones, because that’s where the action’s been. She wants to go back to playing on a TV. By combining a classic console format with the ease of access of open mobile SDKs, Julie seeks to make OUYA the open pathway for all developers—AAA and indie alike—to bring their craft to the world.
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About Angel City, Highway1, OUYA: OUYA develops and delivers open video game consoles for televisions.
Alexander Macris
President & CEO of The Escapist
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About The Escapist: The Escapist is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.
Michael Levine
CEO of HappyGiant
Mike Levine is the President and Founder of Pileated Pictures and HappyGiant, and veteran of LucasArts, currently living in Western Massachusetts. He is currently making the AR game, “HoloGrid: MonsterBattle”, with Phil Tippett, Academy Award winning Visual Effects Artist, and creator of the famed “HoloChess” scene and many more from Star Wars and other classic films – for mobile first and next-gen platforms.
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About HappyGiant, Planet Mojo: HappyGiant is a leader in Augmented Reality gaming and entertainment industries
Arthur Goikhman
Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealVR, Inc
Arthur Goikhman co-founded Surre.al in 2011. He previously co-founded Cellufun, an early leader in the mobile gaming space, which he took from a vision to a company with a run rate of $10 million annual revenue and the top tier of the Inc. 500 Startups list by growing it 2400 percent within three years. Prior to Cellufun, Goikhman co-founded Spiderphone Conferencing and S&G, a boutique Wall Street consultancy whose clients included Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank One, and Prudential. Goikhman has been a frequent speaker at mobile industry conferences and was honored to accept the Best Mobile Game 2008 Award for Cellufun’s Call of the Pharaoh at the World Mobile Congress.
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About SurrealVR, Inc: Surreal Games is an immersive game world where players engage in real-time interactive adventures of their choosing.
Andy Wing
CEO of Fuel Industries
In addition to serving as Chairman of runtriz, Andy oversees a venture fund with holdings in the marketing, technology, e-commerce and advisory services space. In this capacity, he also serves as acting CEO of Fuel Industries. Formerly, Andy was a partner at global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. For three years, Andy oversaw their entertainment practice as President & CEO of Cantor Entertainment, which included The Hollywood Stock Exchange. Andy also served as President and CEO of VNU’s Nielsen Entertainment. During this eight year tenure, he was a member of the VNU Media Measurement Executive Board and prior to being acquired by VNU, Andy served as Managing Director, Global Entertainment for ACNielsen. Before joining Nielsen, Andy spent twelve years at American Express in key general management, marketing, finance and business development roles. Andy earned his MBA in Marketing and Finance from Hofstra University in New York.
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About Fuel Industries: Fuel Industries is a digital youth engagement agency.
Johnny Monsarrat
Founder, CEO of Monsarrat
In 1994, Johnny Monsarrat invented the MMO at founder and CEO of Turbine, which won two videogame “Oscars”, created a market now earning $20 billion a year, and was bought by Warner Brothers for $160 million. Now as CEO of Monsarrat, Inc., Johnny Monsarrat and a team of former Turbine staff are inventing the next big thing after Pokemon Go. Johnny Monsarrat is an Ivy League award-winning public speaker educated at Harvard, Brown University, MIT, and MIT Sloan.
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About Monsarrat: The next big thing in mobile AR walking games
Chet Faliszek
Co-Founder and CEO of Stray Bombay
Chet Faliszek is an American videogame writer and one of the main writers for the Valve Corporation, formerly along with Erik Wolpaw and Marc Laidlaw before their departure. He has worked together with his co-writers in order to create the storylines for the Half-Life and Portal series, along with having personally written the story for Left 4 Dead. Faliszek was also the creator of the Old Man Murray website with Wolpaw, which was shut down in 2002.
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About Stray Bombay: Stray Bombay is a studio made up of Industry veterans and making cooperative games.
Will Dean
Co-Founder & CEO of Electric Gamebox
Will Dean is a Co-Founder of Immersive Games Lab and the Founder of Tough Mudder Inc. Dean came up with the idea for a series of a military obstacle course challenges while completing his MBA at the Harvard Business School. Since launching in 2010, Tough Mudder has attracted more than three million participants worldwide and generates annual global revenues in excess of $100m. In 2017, Dean was made MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his charitable contributions to sport. He chairs the advisory group for the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Bristol University (his undergraduate alma mater). He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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About Electric Gamebox, Tough Mudder: Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room
JT Nguyen
CEO of Gameflip
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About AdvanceClub, Gameflip: Gameflip is creating the commerce engine for the gaming Metaverse
Matthew Gunnin
CEO/Founder of Esports One
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About Esports One, Esportspedia: Esports One is the first real-time fantasy platform that makes watching esports competitive.
James Blaha
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision.
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About Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Michael Rumbolz
President/Chief Executive Officer of Everi Holdings
Michael D. Rumbolz was named Interim President and Chief Executive Officer in February 2016 and in May 2016 was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer. From August 2008 to August 2010, he served as a consultant to the Company advising upon various strategic, product development and customer relations matters. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cash Systems, Inc., a provider of cash access services to the gaming industry, from January 2005 until August 2008 when the Company acquired Cash Systems, Inc. Mike also has provided various consulting services and held various public and private sector employment positions in the gaming industry, including serving as Member and Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board from January 1985 to December 1988. He is a Director of Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment, LLC. He is also the former Vice Chairman of the Board of Casino Data Systems, was the President and CEO of Anchor Gaming, was the Director of Development for Circus Circus Enterprises (later Mandalay Bay Group) and was the President of Casino Windsor at the time of its opening in Windsor, Ontario. In addition, Mike is the former Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Nevada.
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About Everi Holdings: They focus on redefining the possibilities of cash access products and related services throughout the gaming industry.
Austin Woolridge
Co-Founder / CEO of Players’ Lounge
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About Players’ Lounge: Players’ Lounge is an online platform where gamers can compete for cash.
Ross Krasner
Cofounder and CEO of Ryu Games
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About Ryu Games: Changing the way people make and play mobile games
Alexandr Agapitov
CEO & Founder of Xsolla
Agapitov is a Partner of the Xsolla Capital fund – a $50 million venture capital fund focused on royalty based deals exclusively within the video game market. Xsolla Capital is the premier partner within the $100 billion video game industry, the largest segment of the global entertainment industry. Xsolla Capital provides independent video game developers with capital and access to innovative tools and markets to launch games. Xsolla Capital was born out of Xsolla, Inc, the foremost global publishing and distribution platform in the video game industry. Xsolla Capital & Xsolla Inc. are headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California with offices globally.
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About 80 Level, Slemma, Xsolla, Xsolla Capital, YPO: Xsolla is the video game business engine with a set of tools and services that help to operate and sell more games.
Will Eastcott
Chief Executive Officer of PlayCanvas
Will is the vision behind PlayCanvas. He is a veteran video game developer with over 17 years of games industry experience. He is the former Technical Director for Europe at Activision and has credits on most of the major game franchises of the last 10 years, such as Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Max Payne and DJ Hero.
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About PlayCanvas: PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted, collaborative platform for building video games.
Jikhan Jung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Subdream Studios
Jikhan Jung is an entrepreneur and gaming visionary with over 10 years of experience across PC & Mobile platforms. Jikhan began his gaming career at Excite Japan in 2004 and then moved on to found Gala-Net, Inc a year later. Gala-Net was the first free-2-play PC gaming portal (named gPotato.com in North America in May 2005). Capitalizing on the positive reception in the NA market, Jikhan moved on to expand the business across Europe and South America by establishing Gala-Networks Europe and Gala-Net Brazil respectively. Over 22MM gamers have used Gala-Net/gPotato. In February 2013, gPotato was successfully sold to Webzen at a $20MM valuation.
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About Subdream Studios: Esports Game Developer and Publisher.
Ben Keighran
CEO & Co-Founder of Caffeine
Ben Keighran is an Australian born technology entrepreneur and serial entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Caffeine, a social broadcasting platform that delivers live, interactive content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment. Caffeine has raised $146 million to date from investors in 3 rounds led by 21st Century Fox, Andreesen Horowitz, and Greylock Partners. Ben began his career in 2006 when he relocated from Sydney to San Francisco and raised $6.5 million for his mobile social messaging application, Bluepulse. Bluepulse launched in December 2006 as a social messaging app, where Keighran worked on designing a standard for publishing content on mobile, including text messages and other types of communications. Keighran’s next venture was serving as the lead advisor for social search service Aardvark’s mobile strategy. Aardvark was eventually acquired by Google for $50 million in 2010. After Aardvark, Keighran went on to found app search and discovery platform Chomp in 2009 which raised a little over $2.5 million over two rounds. Chomp was one of the earliest startups to offer both app search and personalized app recommendations for the iPhone app. Keighran led the company in developing its unique app search formula and filing 11 patents based on these new app search technologies and user experience. Chomp’s iPhone app offered app search and personalized app recommendations as well, making the startup one of the earliest services to offer that mixed functionality. In 2012, Chomp was acquired by Apple for $50 million and the technology was used to help overhaul the iTunes and App Store search experience. After joining Apple, Keighran spent the next four years overseeing software design on the Apple TV. Keighran helped design the look and feel of the software featured in the 4th generation Apple TV. Finally, in 2016, Keighran left Apple to start his most recent company Caffeine.
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About Caffeine: Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content.
Ricci Rukavina
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Kung Fu Factory
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About Kung Fu Factory: Kung Fu Factory is a Console, PC, and Mobile Game Developer and Publisher.
Daniel Seah
CEO of Digital Domain
Daniel Seah was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Digital Domain Holdings Limited in September 2014. One of the most influential Chinese executives in Hollywood, Mr. Seah plays a vital role in shaping growth strategies and development plans for the award-winning visual effects studio. Mr. Seah has continued to bring revolutionary changes to the visual effects industry and driving Digital Domain to new heights of success with the studio’s unique virtual reality (VR) technology.
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About Digital Domain: Digital Domain creates transportive experiences that entertain, inform, and inspire.
James Simpson
CEO & Founder of GoldFire Studios
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About GoldFire Studios: GoldFire Studios is focused on the development of multiplayer games for tablets and computers with the use of web technology solutions.
Anthony Beyer
CEO of Beyer Productions, LLC
Anthony Beyer is an experienced game programmer and producer, with more than two decades of experience in the field. Anthony lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and son. Anthony Beyer is committed to philanthropy, and helping the less fortunate. He is an active member of New Life Christian Center Church where he strategized fundraising efforts in order for the church to maintain its standing. He also serves on the church’s missionary committee where he is an advocate for spreading the word of evangelism across countries. Other organizations that Anthony supports include the Bucks County division of Big Brothers Big Sisters, The American Red Cross and Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Anthony has a strong affinity for gaming. In his spare time, Anthony Beyer blogs and creates content to provide information for others in the gaming industry, to help conceptualize, create, and promote their products. He has created a company for building videogames for iPhone iOS and Andriod called Hipnosis Studios. He quickly became a leader in his field of gaming, responsible for programming, sound effects, and art for various interactive gaming projects. This allowed him to travel to different OEMS locations to develop new video gaming products that were innovative, generating excitement and capturing the interest of clients and consumers alike. Anthony Beyer was a well respected and sought after industry expert by the 1990’s. He normally took on the position as producer on the projects he was working on. He has a keen eye for detail and understood the “entertainment factor” that is needed for video games to be fun and engaging. In addition to gaming, he enjoys spending his leisure time with family and friends. He is a proud husband and father to his son, Mason. Anthony raises his son in the same loving and exciting fashion that his father did for him and his brother growing up. As a father, Anthony Beyer could not be more fulfilled in life. Some of his favorite activities include going to the movies with his family, traveling throughout the state of Pennsylvania and enjoying Philadelphia Eagles and Phillies games.
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About Beyer Productions, LLC: Game development group specializing in project resourcing, production and consultation
Taehoon Kim
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of nWay
Taehoon Kim is the Co-Founder & CEO at nWay Inc.
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About nWay: nWay develops and publishes online mobile multiplayer games.
Lou Fasulo
Co-founder and CEO of Starform
Lou Fasulo is the Chief Executive Officer of Z2. He likes architecture, great game experiences are built with leading-edge technology, world-class creative & cultural understanding.
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About Starform: Starform was started by industry veterans with the goal of changing the way people play games together.
John West
Founder & CEO of Whistle
John West, the founder, chairman & CEO of Whistle Sports, is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience launching and building companies. In 1989, West started Enstrat, an environmental services company, which was sold seven years later. In 1996, West joined Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm, and was subsequently elected partner. In 1999, he founded and became chairman of Silver Oak Solutions, a financial software and advisory company that was acquired by CGI, a publicly traded IT outsourcing company, in 2005. In 2008, he formed Whistle to provide young sports fans with engaging content across social media platforms. West holds a BS in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Whistle, Whistle: Whistle is a global sports and entertainment company that creates, curates, and distributes positive brand safe original content.
Justin Beck
CEO of PerBlue
Justin has been programming since he was 12 years old. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He has interned as a Software Engineer at Google with the Product Search team, and as a Program Manager at Microsoft with the ASP.NET team. Justin is a passionate software entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of PerBlue.
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About Cockpit Mobile, PerBlue: PerBlue is an independent mobile games studio based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Musa Kara
CEO & Co-Founder of Zuuks
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About Zuuks: Zuuks Games was established in 2014 working on games development.
Douglas Morin
CEO of Devolver Digital
Douglas Morin is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Devolver Digital.
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About Devolver Digital: Working with independent developers from all over the world to produce and promote the most original, eccentric, and beloved games.
Michael Brady
CEO of Bede Gaming
Michael Brady is the Founder and Chief Executive Office, of Bede Gaming Ltd. Bringing more than 17 years of betting and gaming industry experience, Michael founded the Newcastle headquartered Bede Gaming, in 2012. Bede has evolved into one of the fastest growing technology companies within the betting and gaming sector. With Michael’s extensive experience in B2B and B2G deal negotiation combined with his industry expertise, playing a crucial role in this. Michael’s expertise in account management, exporting gaming brands into new markets and analysus of gambling legislation has stemmed from deep roots within the industry. Previously, he has played a key role in founding Business Betting Ltd, Gamblemob Ltd and was one of the early stage employees of Cashcade Ltd, which launched brands such as getminted.com, foxybingo.com and cheekybingo.com. Michael works in Bede Gaming’s London office, playing a pivotal role in steering the company towards further success within industry.
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About Bede Gaming: Bede Gaming is the first choice supplier of software to the online gambling and social gaming industries.
Dilara Kececi
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleporter
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About Teleporter: Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together.
Patrick Wyatt
Founder & CEO of One More Game
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About One More Game: One More Game is an online game company.
Clyde Autin
Founder, CEO of Gamers’ Grid
Clyde Autin is the Chief Executive Officer of Gamers Grid, a networking platform for gamers founded in 2016 to solve one of the biggest problems with gaming— inefficient matchmaking. The idea first struck one day while playing one of his favorite games, Battlefield, Clyde noticed how much more enjoyable the game was when playing with friends but also how difficult it was to find the right people to play with. A few months later, the company was founded and with funds from family, the first prototype of Gamers Grid was built as an app for Android and iOS. As CEO, Clyde sets and executes the strategic vision of the company: to create enjoyable experiences for gamers by connecting them and allowing them to stay in touch with their friends across all gaming platforms. Born in France, Clyde lived in both Paris and the United States with his father until the age of thirteen when he permanently moved to the United States and attended high school in Oakland, California. In his leisure time, Clyde likes to work on cars and produce videos. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business at the California State University, Northridge and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Gamers’ Grid: Gamers Grid is the first platform that instantly matches gamers to ideal teammates
Brandon Pitts
Founder & CEO of Winners Circle Gaming (WCG)
Brandon Pitts is Founder and CEO at Winners Circle Gaming (WCG). He is also the Founder of Play One Up.
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About Play One Up, Winners Circle Gaming (WCG): Winners Circle Gaming (WCG) is an exclusive online community dedicated to providing opportunities for video gamers to monetize the time
Jonathan Weinberg
Founder & CEO of Quarterback
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About Quarterback: Quarterback is an e-sports fan engagement platform that helps streamers, professional esports players and teams monetize their downtime.
Rand Miller
CEO of Cyan
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About Cyan: Cyan is an interactive entertainment company best known for the popular Myst series.
Jason Lake
Founder and CEO of Complexity Gaming
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About Complexity Gaming, GameSquare Esports: compLexity is a constant driving force in multiple competitive gaming scenes worldwide.
Mark Thimmig
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Esportz Entertainment Corp
Serial Entrepreneur working with multiple companies to create remarkable opportunities for all stakeholders. Looking to make this world just a little bit better while I am blessed with a good mind, a strong work ethic and other truly amazing people who share a similar version for this world.
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About Conservaco, LLC, Esportz Entertainment Corp, Ignite Agency, Mark Thimmig, RAZR Ventures, SUGARSGONE: Global Esports News and Media Company – Reuters Global Partner for Esports Reporting
David Braben
Founder and CEO of Frontier Developments
David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.
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About Frontier Developments: Frontier aims to create games that put both the firm and the games industry itself at the forefront of the gaming industry around the world.
Max Filin
CEO, Co-Founder of WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.)
Over 15 years of experience in OEM/ODM and consumer electronics distribution. SEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND LAUNCH OF NEW PRODUCTS; MANAGING COMPLEX SALES ENGAGEMENTS Over fifteen years of expertise in business planning, development, B2B sales, client relationship management, and revenue growth. Savvy sales strategist, leveraging competitive intelligence, actualizing opportunities, and forging partnerships to build business. Committed to driving efficiency and productivity of customers business through executive knowledge of their needs, challenges and concerns. Excel at inspiring peak performance of Sales, Marketing and Engineering staff and aligning resources to jumpstart and seamlessly execute projects; administered budgets of up to $70M. Dedicated, hard-working team player with proven ability to meet deadlines
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About Filin LLC, PSB-Gals, WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.): WOWCube system is a puzzle cube with tangible interface where virtual gameplay is controlled by physically tilting, twisting shaking.
Glen Schofield
CEO, Co-founder of Sledgehammer Games
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About Sledgehammer Games: Sledgehammer Games is a game development studio that engages in game design and development.
Glenn Fiedler
Founder and CEO of Network Next
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About Network Next, The Network Protocol Company: Making the internet better for games
Matt Casamassina
Co-founder & CEO of Rogue Games
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About Rogue Games: Rogue Games is a subscription games (Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass) and cross-platform digital games publisher (mobile, console, PC).
Arash Keshmirian
Co-Founder & CEO of Limbic
Arash is a Co-Founder & CEO at Limbic.
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About Limbic: Limbic is an entertainment company that focuses on mobile game development.
