GLOBAL TEAM

Born and raised in New York City with experience living and working in China for over 6 years. Business fluency in Mandarin with a deep understanding of international business development, publishing, IP licensing, sales, brand growth, platform partnerships, marketing and account management.

Helping NetEase to look for Global IP/ Innovative Gameplay to cooperate with.

VP Business Development at Appicplay Beijing, China. Managing all new and existing business relations for: - Game Publishing - Work For finding more great games studios and bringing their qualified games to China.Open to any new ideas and cooperation opportunities. Please send all business enquiries to: jennifer@appicplay.com

A committed and creative global citizen with the determination and desire to excel at new challenges in a progressively changing environment, armed with crucial life and cultural experiences for the globalizing world. Experienced working with government and private sectors with excellent interpersonal relation skills among peers and clients, currently looking for opportunities where I can utilize my skill sets.

I've spent most of my life abroad including the Philippines, Germany, Japan and Australia. I am well informed on social and environmental trends and issues on a global and local scale, whether it be on the impacts of climate change in regards to sustainable development, ready to tackle the issues of today. As well as being able to quickly adapt to different cultures and aspects of everyday life, my experiences have made me a well versed with human interactions from all walks of life.

My ultimate goal someday is to eventually gain the capacity to make it to world organizations like the United Nations and World Bank. In doing so I will be one step closer in making a difference

Sean Kim is highly experience in the game business including marketing, contents producing and monetization with more than twelve years of working in NCSOFT. He started his career as a project manager of casual games such as a shooting, a midcore-rpg and a rhythm action game. After three years of overseas business as well, he is now in charge of investment team leader regarding mobile, console and other platform based game.

Oscar Sahun is an industrial engineer and has a master's degree in design and development of video games from the UPC. In 2011 he decided to reorient his professional career towards the video game sector to take advantage of his creativity and artistic skills because games have always been passion. He worked as Game Designer (freelance) and until now he has completely designed five games of different types (platforms, adventure, simulation, runner i brain training). Currently he has created with his friends his own indie videogame studio where he create fun and entertainment for all audiences : we develop games with an added educational, cultural and / or social value.

He is a methodical, organized person, with great planning skills, used to working under pressure, and with great artistic and creative skills.

14 years of digital game industry experience. Founding member of 5 startups in Leadership, Technical and Commercial roles. Launched over 30 video game services and products. Mentored over 100 game development projects. Led and managed mobile and web development teams. Led and managed online game commercialisation and operational teams. Good relationships with government agencies, associations and companies related to digital content industries.

Creative Victoria, the arm of state government that champions the creative industries, of which digital games and fashion form a part. My role involves industry development, building resilience within the sector, participating in inbound and outbound trade missions and creating momentum.

Unlocking growth opportunities in Asia Pacific is what I do. 3 generations in Asia, my Western roots and Eastern upbringing are catalysts for my passion, facilitating market entry and adoption for companies entering this complex landscape.

In 2005, I recognized mobile devices would change the digital landscape and shifted my focus to what was then a fledgling market. For the past 15 years my emphasis has continued to be on mobile internet, AdTech, and MarTech, further growing my passion for the domain.

I am currently President & Managing Director at AppsFlyer, as the first global hire I grew the business from new comer to market leader in APAC achieving 70% market share, triple digit revenue growth year on year, building an amazing team of 110+ across 5 offices in the region.

I founded two start-ups, one was an acquihire the other shut down (I know how to fail!). I’m also an active mentor, investor, industry thought leader, and public speaker.

This journey is 1% complete.

An animator, coder, and a former God of War dev who founded an indie game development studio, Lightbound Studios. Currently working on a VR game titled Titan Arena.

Founder, CEO and Creative and Managing Director of Dream Harvest Games. Previously a Sound Designer, Composer, Game Designer working across AAA and Indie games.

Worked at OMUK, one of the UK's leading Dialogue production studios for the games Industry as well as working previously with their main competitor, Side (Now owned by PitStop Productions) on multiple AAA projects.

Also worked extensively with several other small indie game studios in the position of sound designer, composer, game designer and project manager/producer, often all at the same time. I've had the pleasure of working with some incredibly talented people on some really fun projects, some released and some that unfortunately never saw the light of day. I like to wear many hats and get involved in all aspects of the game development process.

Licensed in Software Engineering by the University of Oviedo. In 2016 I started a videogame company, Meteorbyte Studios, which released its first title, Woodpunk, in late 2018. We're currently porting the game to all the most important console platforms.

I am a generalist, and I am used to constantly learning new programming languages and working with new technologies. My focus, however, gravitates mostly towards advanced object-oriented and procedural programming - and, more specifically, to distributed, parallel or client-server applications.

I have previously worked as an IT teacher for college students, after a 2-year paid internship as a consultant and assistant in the University. I love public speaking (or teaching) and doing PR almost as much as I love coding. I have also been singing and playing in a band for over 10 years.

Mark Venturelli is Founder and CEO of Rogue Snail.

One of the most well-known developer on the Brazilian industry, with 12 years of experience, Mark acted as game designer and producer on titles such as Relic Hunters Legend, Chroma Squad and Dungeonland.

Director/Co-Founder at GamesCo. London, an independent game developer support consultancy company from London, UK. Broad industry experience includes Game Production and Financing, Art Direction, UI & UX design, Online Advertising and Project Management.

Nicknamed PO, this imagination explorer is a keen gamer. His creative side pushes him to try all kind of new ideas. Despite his methodical thinking and his experience in software programmation, his true passion lies in the art of Game Design. His infinite creativity allows him to find a solution to every problem. Furthermore, his IT skills enable an enhanced comprehension of the technological aspect of a game, as well as the ability to adapt to it. A Game Designer able to quickly code and try out his own idea? Yup, it exists!

Andrew graduated from Berklee College of Music in the spring of 2007 with a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production. In 2008, he founded Panacea3, a digital reputation management agency. Panacea3 works with clients in many different industries from Fortune 500 corporations to small/medium-sized businesses to help protect and positively affect their digital reputations.

In 2010 he became the CEO of No Shame, an indie label based in Brooklyn, NY. In November of 2013 he founded Juncture Media, an IP development company focused on producing and publishing new creative titles in the digital space. Andrew left No Shame in September of 2015 to fully devote his energies to Juncture Media & Panacea3.

He currently resides in Connecticut/Brooklyn and tries to snowboard and play video games whenever he can.

Playful and energetic, Vincent is always looking for new ways to explore new possibilities and excel. His time working at Frima Studio on many video game projects gave him the opportunity to acquire loads of expertise in programming. Now, he studies to deepen his technical and business skills and to obtain a bachelor’s degree. Both at work and at school, his energy and creativity constantly reward him with success. A businessman and a programmer in the same body… Now that’s quite a combo!

A passionate gamer, Zac has more than 13 years of experience in the industry, starting in Canada, where he designed a number of AAA titles for established game publishers Microsoft and Activision.

Since relocating to Thailand and taking the helm at Sandbox Global, he has steered the studio to its current position as a region leader, not only in casual and hyper casual games but bringing the gaming community together.

With a background in the gaming industry, fine arts and marketing, Jessica is working toward bringing value from her diversified portfolio to market GTR to indie studios.

Jessica offers a perspective based on emotional intel from the gaming community and data provided by the market. Her goal in life is to become a key player in the industry, by providing useful insights to companies about their customers and improving the user experience across multiple platforms and media. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games to her small audience on Twitch, where she can engage in conversations with other gamers. At GTR, she will be taking care of the marketing executions.

Pontus “Zlapped” Mähler is a professional gamer and entrepreneur who has won multiple tournaments globally as well as receive multiple awards for his performances over the years. His main focus was always technicalities and how he could improve on a fundamental and mechanical level, which he then applied to all steps of his career.

With a move to Thailand the year of 2016 he shaped the next step of Thai & Foreign eSports placing top 3 in 4 tournaments in a short amount of time with no english speakers and then transitioning into the role as CEO of the organization in just under 3 months of playng for it.

At GTR, he provides valuable, professional opinion after playing GTR games, and promotes games with his influencers’ network

Ivy is presently working as a program manager in GTR who plans and organizes the programs run by GTR such as Local program, Conference and Accerleration program. As a program manager, she is currently in charge of planning and proposing the program to the governments and sponsors from all around the world that are interested and keen to support the game startups and game industry.

She also currently works on a game lab initiative with wework to establish physical GTR game acceleration lab in selected cities inviting studios, investors, and sponsors from the global and run incubating program/workshop at this lab to build deep and close network creating productive gaming ecosystem.

Tidus graduated with a Bachelor in Accountancy and has background in talent(s) management and creating content(s).

Tidus is passionate in the gaming industry hence he is responsible for creating content and promotional materials for GTR & G.ROUND. With his diversified experience(s), he is also in charge of the financial responsibilitie(s) in Thailand office, this helps GTR meets the legal requirement(s) for filing and transparency for stakeholders.

Tidus also offers himself in managing chinese talent(s) and assisting with foreign publisher(s) for GTR.

After completing her Psychology and Language Sciences degree in London (UCL), Mary joined GTR and is currently working as a community manager as part of GTR's core team member.

Mary is in charge of community building and connecting our selected studios, publisher partners and players from all around the world, and bring what GTR offers to the world. Her main goal is to create a supportive, welcoming and productive community for all game studios. She is also a fervid player of various game genres, and her deep affections towards games helps to create such close-knit community. She will also be organising playtests with publishers and GTR team and advisors to make sure the studios receive constructive feedback regarding their games.

Albert has been working for IT start-ups in 20 years including VR and mobile games. His various experiences mainly focus on platform strategy, during rapid growth in mobile game boom, he was working for LINE Game, Naver Game, NHN Toast platform. Based on his AD platform related experience at NAVER, monetized LINE Games with Video AD platforms like AppLovin, Vungle, AdColony and more.

At GTR he is focusing on helping game companies using various game platforms, and directing GROUND to be a huge eco-system for a game industry.

Fumihito is Founder and CEO at ENTACL GRAPHIC and ENTACL GRAPHIC Singapore. He works in the area of game promotion, UI, UX and development. He has been working on the promotion of many game companies for more than 15 years. ENTACL GRAPHIC is one of the companies which does the most game promotion works in Japan. ENTACL GRAPHIC has been working on the global promotion of MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD and ACE COMBAT, and many games promotion localization for Japan.

Fumihito worked in the development of RPG Maker MV and he was the project manager of RPG Maker MV Tools. He also worked on the development of an app game which use the PAC-MAN character and he also has worked on many UI design projects.

Fumihito has a huge knowledge of the game business of Japan and Asia, and he contributes at GTR through promotion and sales.

Michael Yang is the BD manager of Oasis Games handling business development for its global PC & console game publishing. With deep knowledge of the Chinese market, he has worked on many projects bringing western games into China as well as Chinese games into the west.

As Executive Director of YJM Games (KOSDAQ listed public company), and CEO of Signal&Co., a mobile games developer and publisher, SEO has over 10 years of gaming industry experience. His experience spans from business planning for notable game platforms such as KAKAO Games, sourcing successful content such as Anypang and Wind Runner, and operating games to ensure quality assurance and longevity. SEO has also served in the investment world as a venture capitalist and has gained knowledge and productive networks as an investor. Aside from his full-time career directing and managing YJM Games' and Signal's games business, SEO is also a very active angel investor. Most of his investments are into game content.

As GTR Core Advisor, SEO promises to bring expertise in identifying quality content, and guiding studios to maximize their opportunities of success by bridging them with proactive publishers and investors.

Sung Wone has worked in the Korean game industry for 20 years. He began his career as a server programmer, but he is now an all-around player in the gaming industry with a solid knowledge of the corporate management, business planning and strategy. He started his career at Naver and Hangame, and broadened his skill sets joining CJ Holdings, CJ E&M, Wemade, and Longtu Korea. Sung Wone personally received the Business Innovation Award in Korea Game Awards in 2016 and has 19 patents on games and online service technologies.

Sung Wone now is CEO of Supertree, a professional development and global publishing company based on block-chain based Html5 content, and also serves as advisor to the Korea Mobile Game Association (KMGA).

Jin J. Kim is a Data Analyst and Software Developer in charge of system development and operation at GTR. Jin is now leading research and development for G.ROUND, user-powered global game testing publishing, and for blockchain technologies in GTR game ecosystem.

Graduating from the school of Computer System Technology (CST) at BCIT(British Columbia Institute of Technology) in Canada, and finishing a master degree in Computer Science from Soong-sil University in Korea, he is an expert in web development, machine learning, and distribute computing systems. Several years prior to joining GTR, Jin did research on an Exobrain project regarding a self-evoking knowledge base and reasoning platform based on the fundamentals of big data. He also worked on an expert knowledge acquisition system project, on online community contents search and analysis engine research project and on IT consulting at a startup accelerator.

David Chun is a private banker at a Korean top-tier financial institution. He manages assets for the super rich and has been doing so for the last 18 years. He is well known in the industry for his professionalism and commitment towards his clients. Most of his clients are founders and C level executives of renown IT companies and gaming companies.

He now manages 2 billion dollars worth of assets and invests them companies in all stages of development from start ups in their angel, series A/B/C stages to companies that are ready to go IPO or that have already listed.

As co-founder and CSO of H2 Interactive, a new born Japanese game publisher, Heita has been in the game industry for more than 10 years. Prior to co-founding H2 Interactive, Heita led IGAWorks as Managing Director and held senior level management positions at Gamepot and Gree. Having spent 4 years in Korea as EVP of IGAWorks, Heita is very familiar with both the Korean and Japanese game industries.

Heita brings an enormous amount of diversified experience from both a professional but also a regional perspective into GTR. With the addition of Heita and his broad network of professionals onto the GTR team, GTR expects to be able to well penetrate and open doors for GTR cohort studios into the Japanese market.

As co-founder and CSO of H2 Interactive, a new born Japanese game publisher, Heita has been in the game industry for more than 10 years. Prior to co-founding H2 Interactive, Heita led IGAWorks as Managing Director and held senior level management positions at Gamepot and Gree. Having spent 4 years in Korea as EVP of IGAWorks, Heita is very familiar with both the Korean and Japanese game industries.

Heita brings an enormous amount of diversified experience from both a professional but also a regional perspective into GTR. With the addition of Heita and his broad network of professionals onto the GTR team, GTR expects to be able to well penetrate and open doors for GTR cohort studios into the Japanese market.

With 30 years of experience in the gaming industry, YM was fortunate enough to be involved in launching various blockbuster game titles from top tier game productions. His track record ranges from Age of Empires at Microsoft, moving onto online gaming with launching Lineage 2 at NCSoft as Marketing VP, to World of WarCraft at Blizzard Entertainment as one of the top executives in Korea. He then established and led both Crytek Korea and Crytek APAC HQ mainly working on Warface and Cryengine projects. The gaming industry swiftly shifting to mobile, NHN (Naver and Hangame) invited him to set up Orangecrew, the largest mobile development company in Korea. YM is now running his own mobile game development studio called Nchant Interactive.

Recently, YM established 4 companies including 2 startups. He plays a material role as a mentor and advisor to many startups in both the online and offline sector via channels such as multi-national consulting firms, the Korean Government and GTR.

As ex- ceo of NHN SEA, Eric is a veteran with 17 years of experience in the Game industry. He possesses expertise from both the development side as well as the business side and has held various key management positions with NCSOFT, IMC Games, IAH Games, NHN SEA and Cocone Singapore. Eric has extensive experience in setting up businesses and operations and was instrumental in setting up businesses for NHN SEA, LINE SEA and Cocone Singapore.

Eric brings unique value to the GTR team with his expertise in not only game project management but also professional localization and operations. Eric has executed several multi-million dollar publishing contracts and thus is well known and well connected in the SEA, Korean and Japanese market.

He was former CEO at Com2us USA, leading Com2us' global business and partnerships with global companies such as Google (Play Store), Apple (App Store) and many top Silicon Valley startups resulting in Com2us' success to exceed over $1B market cap and position as one of the most successful Korean mobile game companies in history.

His business network extends from Silicon Valley to Korea as an advisor of a few Silicon Valley startups including Bluestacks, Kochava and Sway Mobile, Seoul Community Director of Kaleidoscope VR, and mentor of Seoul Global Startup Center, G-Startup Worldwide and KOICA, non-profit governmental aid organization in Korea and LEADERS, the first startup accelerator in Palestine. Recently he served as the director of Global Business Team at GCCEI(Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy and Innovation), a non-profit semi-government startup accelerator in Korea initiated by the former Korean President.

Danny is Founder and CEO at GTR. He has 10+ years experience in business strategy development from small/medium to industry-leading companies such as Samsung and NHN. Most recently, he has built his professional career as a venture capitalist participating in a 15 Million dollar game fund investing into early stage game startups at NHN Investment. He is also co-founder of Tab the Momentum, an internet/mobile startup accelerator in Korea which invested into over 20 startups and helped them grow substantially.

Now at GTR, Danny and his team are acting as angel investors, and consultants for startups - mixing up business and investment knowledge, providing skills and networks and establishing a robust ecosystem of gaming experts and business professionals from the gaming sector to help game studios and individual game developers to get to the next level. Danny truly believes that the GTR ecosystem can help game developers make creative and commercial games and to pursue sustainable futures.

Sam Kang was former CEO of Mage of the East, the developer of Chain Chronicle game title. He has over 12 years of experience in game development and project management. Sam has various project management experiences overseeing the development of many famous game titles which include Granado Espada at IMC Games, Dragon Nest at Eyedentity Games (acquired by Shanda Games), and Lineage Eternal at NCSoft.

At GTR, He is currently providing very tangible advices on game startups of GTR in the perspective of GAME PD. He has lots of experience in RPG or mid-core PC and Mobile games.

Rick has vast experiences in growing new businesses set out for global expansion. He has over 14+ years of managerial experience in the field of corporate strategy, business development and operations covering a range of business areas in gaming publishing and monetization in addition to other online businesses from leading corporations such as Electronic Arts, Naver, Hangame and Samsung Electronics.

Rick has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He brings to GTR a solid foundation and understanding of the industry and is committed to help grow the GTR ecosystem.

André Bernhardt has been part of the games industry for the past 18 years and is very experienced within the online, as well as "offline" and mobile game publishing industry. He worked at different PC, console and mobile publishers like Sony Computer Entertainment, Sunflowers, RTL Games and Travian Games before he founded IndieAdvisor in 2012. Since then he is working as a freelance agent supporting developers to find a publisher and vice versa while teaching at different high schools or giving lectures at games conferences where he also organizes indie exhibitions and events. Indie Advisor offers external business development for developers, start-ups and publishers. In 2015 he then founded Target Games together with Thorsten Unger and became the European partner for GTR.

At GTR he is focused on getting more European developers, publishers and service providers to join the great GTR ecosystem.

Jongwoo Kim is a co-founder and lead programmer at Kitfox Games, an indie game studio based in Montreal. Kitfox has most recently released Moon Hunters, a co-op action RPG for Steam and PS4. As an avid game jammer, Jongwoo participated in 14 different game jams in 2015.

Spanning more than 15 years, Raj Joshi has worked for Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Activision, Electronic Arts, and Double Helix as an artist, director, and producer. Currently Studio Director at 17­-BIT, an indie game studio in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, Raj is passionate about establishing a legacy that gives back to the community that's helped him to flourish in this challenging field and is proud to be a co­founder of the Indies Workshop in Seattle, ­a co­working space for passionate game devs looking to work alongside like­-minded collaborators.

Dan Stern is cofounder and developer relationships manager at a new Osaka-based indie publisher, Dangen Entertainment. He has lived in Japan for ten years. Tokyo and Osaka have proven amazing, but his heart lies in the mountains of Nagano. He loves reading, history, music, and of course games. Among his favorites are the Square Soft SNES classics and the indie games that have brought that era back.

Teddy Dief is a game maker, writer, and producer, now Creative Director at Square Enix Montréal. He developed indie success Hyper Light Drifter, and is a co-founder of LA game collective Glitch City. He produces and hosts a variety of productions such as the Playscape Idle Thumbs podcast, the IndieCade Innovation Awards, and Square Bowl. He has designed for Microsoft Studios and Disney Online Studios, specializing in narrative and systems design. He holds a Masters in Interactive Media from the University of Southern California.

Sang-ho is an Executive Director who specializes in gaming and new media contents. He joined the firm in 2012 and invested in the mobile gaming space such as Seriously, Huuuge games, Armada interactive and Appota. Previously, Sang-ho was a business consultant at Accenture where he was involved in digital marketing strategy development projects. His clients ranged from local home shopping companies to global automakers. Before that, he was a new business strategist at NHN where he analyzed potential new markets for online games and developed business strategies. Sang-ho studied Business Administration at Yonsei University.

Jee Won Kim is presently working as a creative lead of Global Top Round(GTR). Responsibilities include driving the creative vision of GTR. He manages creative process from creative strategy to art direction and digital design. He leads a multi-disciplinary projects working on global campaigns and platforms. Jee Won spent most of his career in NY. He started with graphic design and motion graphics in Los Angeles and after years working at yU+co in Los Angeles, moved to New York to work at AKQA in NY, where he worked on 360 global integrated campaigns on major clients including Google, Hyundai USA, Calvin Klein. He later joined Ogilvy NY as an art director and UX&UI designer, developed campaigns and platforms for flagship brands such as: IBM, Blackrock and Philips. His work has been honored with AIGA, Creative Quarterly, and TDC.

Patrick Chung is co-founder and was director of SK Telecom Venture which is tributary of USD 100 milion Venture and is subsidiary of leading telecom aompany in Korea. He worked as company lawer of WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, director of Dial Pad Communications (acquired by YAHOO!), and lawer at Kim&Jang, one of bet law firm in Korea.

Hans Kim is Of Counsel in the corporate and securities practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He represents technology and growth companies at all stages of development and provides counsel on general corporate matters. Hans also represents companies in cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on Asia.

Hans also worked at Renren Games and helped open their first U.S. office in 2012. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Digital Eclipse/Backbone Entertainment, one of the original game studios of Foundation 9 Entertainment.

Brandon Sheffield is director of Necrosoft Games, a small distributed studio with its main office in Oakland, California. Brandon was formerly editor in chief of Game Developer magazine, and senior contributing editor to Gamasutra.com, and currently advises multiple game conferences, publications, and startups, alongside game development work.

He has worked on both digital and packaged games across all platforms, and is looking forward to helping to make your game be the best it can be.

Seil is an investment associate at Nexon with expertise in corporate development, data analytics, and M&A. He works closely with game developers across regions/platforms, and help their creative projects successfully reach their audience. Seil is a fan of e-sports, PC online and hyper casual games.

He is a proud Canadian soul currently residing in Seoul, and received a B.Com. specializing in finance and economics from the University of Toronto.

Jeffrey is a founder of So.Ventures. He has been through many industry as experts, executives, founder and investor - 3d structure analysist for Samsung Group, IT consultant for LG Group, vice president for Korea Corporate Investment, CEO for the biggest museum company from Korea., CEO and director for Singapore and Thailand companies, advisor for UBP and Julius Baer Swiss Bank, founder and investor for several IT companies and online game companies.

He also has strong background in Science and Technology by graduating Seoul Science High School and master degree in KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology). With all this variety of experience and expertise, he is able to combine many success components into business and execute to profit making.

For the last 10 years, he made many success stories in SE Asia with tangible profit made. With his experience, expertise and network, he focuses to develop and operate overseas business in SE Asia in many ways including incubation, company build, licensing, joint venture and investment. For sure, through So.Ventures.

John is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strong Ventures, a seed fund with offices in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Gangnam, Seoul, which primarily supports and finances startups in Korea and Asian-American founders in the US. In addition, John is a Venture Partner of Primer, S. Korea’s first and top startup accelerator program, as well as the Executive Director of KOLABS, a co-working space created in partnership between BAM Ventures and Strong Ventures, in the heart of Ktown LA. Prior to becoming a seed investor, he co-founded and headed Phonevite, a top internet telephony startup which grew to profitability serving thousands of schools, non-profits and community groups. John started his Silicon Valley career as a Senior Product Manager and Business Development Manager at Dialpad, a hybrid Korean-Silicon Valley Voice over IP company that was acquired by Yahoo!, and which became Yahoo! Voice. His experience also includes working in finance as a Vice President of Corporate Banking at US Bank and Comerica Bank, and in IT Management at the United Nations in New York. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of International Affairs, both from Columbia University. Having grown in the Canary Islands of Spain and being of Korean descent, he is fluent in both Spanish and Korean as well.

Victor has 8 years of experience in the game industry. His primary focus is on business and product development, market research, and developer relations. He acquired an in-depth knowledge of the mobile ecosystem and competitive landscape while working with publishers, developers and handset manufacturers. He also advises game developers on improving games mechanics, interfaces and monetization strategies. Several projects he participated in received various awards from local game conferences, as well as honored by nominations from Intel, Google and Apple.

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Gabby is a startup entrepreneur and an 12-year veteran of the game industry in Southeast Asia.

He has been making games since 2003 and have released multiple titles on PC on mobile platforms. He's worked on production and business development on highly successful premium and free-to-play titles such as the Awakening franchise on Big Fish Games. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Altitude Games, a game developer and publisher focusing on original free-to-play mobile titles.

He also consult for companies who are looking to set up game development operations in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines. He has a strong network of game developers and publishers across Asia.

He is a founding member and former president of the Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP) and former coordinator of the IGDA Manila chapter.

Chris works as Business Development Manager at TriBeluga. As Startup environment lover, he has passionate interest in early stage Startup Investment. He also has expertise on Global Business Development, Partnership Development, Program Management with Analytical and strategic thinking. He experienced in international team culture through his carrer

Dieter Schoeller is now Managing Director at Headup Games in Germany. He has various experience at major media & game studios such as UBI soft, Koch Media, and RTL Studios. Koch Media. Dieter has an experty at interactive entertainment industry.

Emily Souza is a market research professional, specializing in the analysis of data and trends in the video game industry. She currently supports some of the largest names in the industry as the West Coast Client Director for Newzoo's San Francisco office.

Eric works as Business Development Manager at Yodo1.
Based in Beijing with offices in China and Korea, Yodo1 is a market entry specialist and full-service publishing platform for game developers who want to launch their titles in Asia's mobile gaming market. Led by a team of experienced mobile developers have worked with top game publishers, Yodo1 helps iOS, Android, and WP developers adapt, culturalize, and publish their titles into the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean markets. Partners include leading game companies Zeptolab, Defiant Development, Ciegames, and Get Set Games.

Founder of Reload Studios. James has worked on creating products for some of the most influential game companies in recent years. As a developer for core and casual games, he has garnered invaluable experience and practical knowledge in the development and production of interactive media.

Reload Studios is a brand new independent game development studio made up of some of the most talented people from the entertainment industry. They are a VR priority game studio that makes sure their content is optimized to run well on both VR and none VR platforms.

Juyeon Lee is Senior associate of Mobile Game Sourcing at Garena. Through many major firms, she is specialized on mobile devices and business development.

Marcus Behrens is Publishing Director Mobile at Kalypso Media. Kalypso Media is a global independent developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment software

Pepe Agell is vice president of Business at Chartboost. Chartboost makes technology for mobile game developers, and works with over 150,000 games and reach over 600 Million unique users per month.

Phil is a General Partner of Big Basin Capital. He founded Big Basin Capital in 2013 to invest in early-stage startups in Korea and the US. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Walden International, a global VC headquartered in Silicon Valley, where he led the firm’s investment in SundayToz (KOSDAQ IPO) and HiDeep. Prior to Walden, he was with Intel Capital in Santa Clara, CA. Earlier in his career, he was a software developer at an EDA startup Neolinear, and a technical sales lead at Cadence. Phil holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, and an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He also received an M.B.A. with honors from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Brown leads Stride PR, a Los Angeles based video game focused PR agency. While Stride counts some of the biggest companies in the industry as clients, Robert founded the agency to specifically work with startup game developers, so he could help their dreams come true.

Wendy is a president and founder of MOYO Games in Shanghai which has established focusing on mobile game publishing of Korean game in China. Prior to MOYO, she had worked for Nexon China's planning and strategy, marketing, global IR for five years. She has a great insight in Chinese game industry since she had worked with whole product divisions of the company like Kartrider, Maplestory, Mabinogi, etc. for more that five years.

Sun Cho have over 14 years of success in managing, marketing, and developing business for free to play online video/web browser/mobile gaming products.
Her expertise is in creating partnerships and licensing agreements that grow revenue for client downloadable, web browser, and mobile games.
She is particularly strong in collaborating with internal and external teams of developers and distributors to launch gaming platforms and products worldwide.

Hands-on, high energy managerwith strong business acumen and an excellent background in mobile gaming industry. Convinced top-tier international brands, investors, and large studios to partner with my team for services from game designand productionto market research and analysis.Launched new games through deals with mobile advertising companies, distribution channels, and publishers.

Danny is a Founding Partner at GTR Accelerator and at TAB the Momemtum, well known for accelerating and investing small and medium-sized firms. He had professional careers as a game fund manager for &start (http://nstart.nhnent.com/), venture capitalist and professional angel investor for many years. He also experienced various business developments for game and non-game business industries.

Danny envisions in the advanced balance of the mobile game industry, so he has built the GTR Ecosystem with global mobile game specialists and people in relation to mobile games. GTR ecosystem will help indie mobile developers to get more beneficial opportunities for global business.

Aaron is a serial-entrepreneur playing a major role in supporting and accelerating both game and non-game startups from around the world. He is the founder and CSO of TAB the Momentum, an early stage focused global accelerator based in South Korea that actively supports numerous promising startups to achieve tangible growth momentum and enter global markets. Prior to founding TAB the Momentum, he co-founded an automobile tuning brake manufacturing company, PA Sports, which is the top selling brand in Korean car tuning business. Through GTR, he envisions of meeting lots of talented game developers from around the world, and helping them successfully launch their creative titles free of resource and financial burdens.

Peter has more than 12 years of experience in start ups and marketing in Silicon Valley. He is currently the founder and CEO of AlcaCruz Inc., where his team is developed the most optimized solution for 4K and 6K VR video streaming, including 4K 360 Live VR solution and VR Theme Park solution. Prior to that he has co-founded 4 other companies and currently advises many local start ups in Silicon Valley and Seoul, such as Ipvive, Streamlyzer, StemGen and Manic Frog among others

His passion for game led him to co-found Fantage.com, a virtual world for children, where it competed with Disney’s Club Penguin. Since Fantage, his insight and networks has led to multiple investments and business development opportunities for game companies in Seoul, Shanghai and Silicon Valley.

He is also a founding member and past CEO of Bay Area K Group, the biggest Korean-American non profit organization in Silicon Valley.

KB is a founder of FunkyBro, one of the leading digital marketing agencies especially for small and medium sized organizations in Korea. His major career path is focused on investing and developing various start-ups especially in fashion, entertainment and IT industries for many years.

KB will support GTR Top 10 game studios to become much more competitive through social network marketing and advertisements as it is the most effective marketing tool for start-ups. GTR ecosystem will also be more acceptable and connect to a wide spectrum of people who are interested in mobile game industry by efficient marketing activities via social network services such as Facebook or Instagram.

Aiden has a robust game career beginning with Nexon for 8 years, who has been in charge of HR, investment and even a full range of game operation by 2014. He joined MOBILFACTORY in late 2014, and has contributed with sophisticated strategy based on real experience and encouraged developers with rich experience in mobile game operation.

Ryan has been leading market strategy and business development over various disciplines within Consumer Electronics, Information Technology and Content industries for the past 11 years. He was previously the Head of Digital Partnerships for Southeast Asia at The Walt Disney Company. In his various roles at Disney, he helped to grow the company’s digital presence in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) through disruptive partnerships and successfully launched Disney’s Branded OTT services with key partners in the region.

Prior to Disney, Ryan was a New Business Development Lead at Google based in Tokyo and Seoul where he built the team from the ground up from recruiting, training and managing an acquisition and a sales ops team to expanding new High Potential (HIPO) SMB development in local markets.

As Streamlyzer’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Eric has 20 years of digital video and streaming engineering experience. He is core to the design and build of the company’s data-driven video platform and is responsible for envisioning Streamlyzer's product strategy and evangelizing the company's technologies.

Prior to founding Streamlyzer, he worked 18 years as a software developer for video and streaming companies in the U.S. and South Korea including Netflix, Trient, NXP and Conexant. He helped global leading companies such as Netflix, DirectTV, Samsung and LG to deliver high quality video products to the global market.

Eric brings abundant go-to-market experience along with emerging technologies to GTR and will contribute to deploy GTR’s platform services successfully into the global market.

Jean is an experienced product leader with more than 15 years of experience launching and operating online and mobile products. Her areas of expertise are service business planning, UI/UX wireframe, localization, QA, product launch, live operations, marketing and product management. She has managed product and creative teams across more than 20 online and mobile services including online games, video streaming, e-commerce, search and more.

Her extensive global product experience from companies like Lycos, Blizzard Entertainment, Nexon, Outspark, Manicfrog and recently OnDemandKorea will bring success to launching GTR’s game platforms.

Sage Ha is the co-founder and the former vice president of the Ticket Monster, one of the largest e-commerce businesses in South Korea. Mr. Ha has been the leading figure in Korean e-commerce industry for many years and is an experienced and accomplished entrepreneur. In his former company, Mr. Ha led countless number of projects in the areas of business development, marketing, operation, mergers and acquisitions and many others, playing a major role in building the multibillion-dollar company.

Ha brings wealth of experience from a variety of businesses and the broad network of professionals, which will greatly help the GTR in its business endeavor.

Suhyun Kim has a wide experience in software technology development and tech startups. After receiving his Ph.D. from Seoul National University, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Now he is working for a research institute in Korea as a principal research scientist. He was also a visiting scholar at the computer science department of Stanford University from 2014-2015. He has been involved in many government projects and programs including working as a principal investigator of a $10B research project.

Since 2007, Suhyun has actively conducted research in the area of peer-to-peer systems including blockchain technology. Suhyun will bring the benefits of the blockchain technology into the GTR ecosystem.

Thorsten Unger is a serial entrepeneur and an expert in digital media. He is the founder of Wegesrand, a consulting company focusing on digital innovation.
As executive director of the association of the German gaming industry GAME, he campaigns for the industries’ interests with reference to the meaning of games in an economic, social, political and cultural context. He also founded Zone 2 Connect, one of the leading providers of serious games and gamification in Germany.
At Target Games he is responsible for business and strategy development. Thorsten Unger is consulting the German government, institutions and companies as well.
He is a key-note speaker for games-related topics and has published contributions inseveral books. Together with his long-time companion André Bernhardt he founded Target Games.

Jin Y. Bae is CSO at Line Games. He co-founded Mobil Factory, mobile game studio, and the company was acquired by NextFloor . Recently Line Games acquired NextFloor. NextFloor, established in 2012, has quickly become a successful, innovative game company, employing more than 200 people. NextFloor’s global presence extends to its offices in Seoul, Tokyo, and Shanghai. NextFloor performed spectacularly in its first year due to the success of its premiere game, Dragon Flight, which grossed more than $77M after its launch in 2012. The company’s latest game, Destiny Child, climbed to first place in the top grossing apps list at both Googleplay store and Apple Appstore. Prior to NextFloor and Mobil Factory, he was an investment associate at Nexon Korea Investment Division and Nexon China Strategic Investment Division as well as an investment analyst of a local PE firm in Korea.

Peter is a long-time veteran of the industry with nearly a decade of experience designing, developing, publishing, and managing games in the US and South Korea. After receiving an MFA in Interactive Media from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2010, he had the opportunity to make and manage games at Com2uS Korea during the mobile game explosion of 2010-2013. Following Com2uS, he helped to create an international publishing business with SK Planet/npnf, managing production and launching in Korea for games from around the world. At GTR he plans to develop a platform enabling small studios to reach out across the world for players and help guide and support them during development and beyond.

Justin Doh has over 12 years of gaming industry experience from marketing to business development to live operations. With his diverse experience, he is currently in mobile gaming business sector to oversee the games quality and its market performance.

YJ Jin is experienced in mobile and online project management professional over 12 years with proven track records of bringing concepts to market. Successfully introduced over 20 plus mobile and online products from the business development stage to the competitive global markets.

During his studies to obtain a degree in International Marketing in Austria, Thomas went abroad to do an internship at ICO. Later on he worked as a freelancing video game journalist and run an award winning launch campaign for a smartphone game, before returning to Brighton in 2014 to work as a German PR executive for ICO. Welcome back!

Minwoo is the Founder and CEO of Soulgit. He founded Soulgit with a mission to create an ecosystem for mobile game developers to successfully launch, promote, and monetize their games. Prior to Soulgit, he was a founding member of Vungle Korea, a global video advertising platform, and helped Korean mobile developers successfully build business in global markets with his expertise from consulting and mobile advertising background.

Sujung Park is a principal attorney at Fidea Law Corporation. Sujung Park has advised entrepreneurs and seed- and early-stage startups, helping them refine business, financing and technology strategies for rapid growth, and providing counseling on day-to-day legal issues that arise in startups. She also has served as outside general counsel for the US subsidiaries of Korean companies and US companies who have a business relationship with Korea.

As a passionate and highly praised speaker, Sujung has frequently lectured a corporate law before businesses, chamber of commerce, and investors. She is currently teaching a business law course at De Anza College, Cupertino, as an adjunct professor. She has written numerous articles and blog posts on business law issues. Prior to her legal career, Sujung worked as an investment banker at Mcquarie Bank Ltd., and as management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Yeonjeong Chae is a lawyer in the corporate and M&A practice at Sehan Law. She represents start-up companies and various growth companies, and provides counsel on general corporate matters. YJ also represents companies in cross-border transactions and participates in various Merger & Acquisitions transactions where she conducted due diligence and drafted various share purchase agreements, investment agreements.

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