Dave Jones

Video game pioneer Dave Jones is best known for his work on genre-defining titles such as Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown, APB: All Points Bulletin, and Fortnite. Dave is a creative visionary and has enjoyed incredible success and influence within the game industry. Lemmings sold over 20 million copies and won the European Game of the Year award twice, while Grand Theft Auto grew into one of the biggest game franchises of all time.

Dave has founded many gaming companies including DMA Design (which eventually became Rockstar North), Realtime Worlds, nWay, and Cloudgine. He won Gamelab’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

Antonio Rallo

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Tony holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marine Biology with a strong background in Applied Computing from UCSD and a Research Graduate Fellowship in Aquaculture from Aix Marseille in France. Tony has worked as a Multimedia Technologies Manager at Apple Computer, and also worked as Chief Technology Strategy VP for Televisa. Tony is an entrepreneur and a co-founding partner and board member in the top mission-critical data center company in Latin America, Kionetworks.com. He is also the CEO of ID345, a “club of angel investors” company specializing in early-stage investments in software-scalable-platforms with a focus on key technologies such as machine learning amongst others.

Mark Kendell

Mark is a serial entrepreneur and advisor and has raised over $1B for more than a dozen companies in films and entertainment. He has been founder/CEO of a dozen companies, and currently represents the interests of several entertainment properties including Jackie Chan and Stan Lee.

Jud Valeski

Jud has held lead technical roles at AOL, TechStars, Netscape and Honey (now PayPal). He was the Founder and CEO / CTO of Gnip, growing it to over 100 employees and acquisition by Twitter. Jud is currently acting as an investor and advisor for numerous tech sector startups.

David Campbell

David Campbell (DC) is a web2/web3 angel investor and operator. From 2018 through 2021, Campbell was COO of the Electric Coin Company, the creators of the Zcash protocol. Prior to working on Zcash, DC served as Chief Security Officer of SendGrid (NYSE: SEND, acq. TWLO). Prior to SendGrid, DC was founding CEO of JumpCloud and Electric Alchemy.

Alex Casassovici

Alex is a tech visionary, accomplished entrepreneur, and environmental advocate. He currently serves as the CEO and founder of Azarus, the "Web3 Layer for Streams." Azarus was recently acquired by Animoca Brands, a global leader in blockchain, gamification, and digital entertainment. Alex has successfully exited four times and secured over $10MM in funding for his ventures. He founded Azarus in 2018. Azarus has distributed over $2MM in rewards through its $AZA token and digital items. In the last year alone, Azarus has reached over 20 million viewers.

Brian Hodous

For over a decade, Brian was CCO of Activision and was instrumental to the marketing and distribution of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Guitar Hero, Spiderman, Destiny and more. Brian is now a strategic investor and advisor for dozens of entertainment and technology startups.

Adam Hollander

Adam is a leading figure in the web3 space, frequently featured in the media to promote NFTs and the metaverse. As a serial entrepreneur, he has established multiple successful ventures, including a company that Microsoft acquired in 2015. Following the acquisition, he took on the role of Director of Gamification at Microsoft. Adam is the visionary behind White Sands, a project developed on the HYTOPIA platform. Currently, he lends his expertise to the advisory boards of several cutting-edge companies.

Paul Walborsky

Paul was a co-founder of AI.Reverie, an AI platform that generates synthetic data at scale to train computer vision algorithms. He led the company to its acquisition in 2021. Prior to this, Paul served as SVP at The New York Times, where he led a cross-functional team (product, technology, audience development and data science) tasked with scaling and building local audiences in such international markets as China, Australia, Latam and Canada. Paul was also the CEO of Gigaom for over 7 years — leading the company from a single blog into a highly respected, globally recognized media and research firm. Here, he built an innovative content monetization platform with multiple revenue sources, including online advertising, events, and research. Paul serves as an advisor/investor to numerous companies, including, Webacy, Digitt, Meddi, Joon, Cyrus, Innit, Stonks!, WAGMI United and Spire (NYSE: SPIR). He holds a Masters in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University and was born and raised in Mexico.