Rui Zhang Vice President gumi Inc Rui Zhang, CFA, CPA is also Managing Director of gumi Cryptos. With both investment and computer science background, Rui has 2 years banking and 3 years consulting firm experience in his early career. Later he co-founded Zenith Group Holdings, succeeded in raising around USD22million in Seed and Series A, and was acquired by a large IT company in China. SInce 2016 after he joined gumi, Rui is in charge of all overseas investments of gumi Group, including the gaming investment in US and Europe, VR Fund and the VR incubation programs in Seoul and Helsinki. At the beginning of 2018, he took in charge of and succeeded in setting up crypto delegated investment fund – gumi Cryptos. Since then, serving as the Managing Director, he is leading the investment of gumi Cryptos.
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Randy Saaf CoFounder/CEO Lucid Sight #cryptogames
Randy Saaf CoFounder/CEO Lucid Sight, an indie game studio that develops the digital ownership game MLB Crypto Baseball. He is also director at AppOnboard, offering high fidelity playable ads for iOS and Android. Saaf co-founded Jirbo in 2008, a launch partner of the iOS App Store and had 14 of the first 100 free iOS games. Jirbo changed its name to AdColony and transitioned from gaming to one of the largest mobile video ad networks. AdColony sold to Opera Mediaworks in 2014 for $350 million.
Mickey Maher Head Revenue Dapper Labs, makers of CryptoKitties #cryptogames
Mickey Maher Head Revenue Dapper Labs, makers of CryptoKitties. His primary goal is to expand CryptoKitties and upcoming blockchain projects into the greater gaming market with our goal of bringing the first billion to the blockchain. Dapper Labs is the fifth venture-backed startup Mickey has worked for in the gaming industry. Two have been acquired, and one is likely to IPO in the near future—with all of them, he has significantly and consistently grown revenue. Mickey has worked as Head of Global Sales for Unity Technologies where he built a mobile ad business from pre-launch to nearly $300M in revenue. He’s also spent years working with high-level partnerships with startups including Applifier, Sometrics, and Upsight, offering analytics, marketing, advertising, digital good marketplace, and social solutions to gaming companies. Mickey’s time working with Dapper Labs has allowed him to travel to different parts of the world every week. He’s at his best when working on anything and everything by applying his blend of conscientious and entrepreneurial spirit, his tenacious drive, and his ability to thrive in complex environments.
Sam Englebardt Co-Founder/Partner Galaxy Digital #cryptogames
Sam Englebardt Co-Founder/Partner Galaxy Digital Sam is a media and technology investor and content producer who has created, acquired and/or financed a broad range of traditional and digital businesses and dozens of films and television shows over the past decade. Galaxy Digital is a leading blockchain and digital assets merchant bank. His responsibilities at Galaxy include, amongst other things, co-managing the principal investments business and the EOS.io Ecosystem Fund, a $325mm joint venture with Block.one that is focused on making strategic investments in projects that utilize the EOS.io blockchain software. Englebardt’s involvement with Galaxy reflects his deep interest in the intersection of content, consciousness and exponential technologies. He was an early investor in Eyefluence, an eye-tracking technology company that was sold to Google and he is an advisor to several start-ups in the mixed-reality space, including VR company, The Void. Prior to Galaxy, Englebardt was a partner and managing director at Lambert Media Group (LMG) from 2007 – 2016, where he sourced and managed a portfolio of media-sector private equity investments. Before LMG, Englebardt was a Vice President and Financial Advisor at Alliance Bernstein. He has been a prolific content producer throughout his career and spent three years running LMG portfolio company, Demarest Films. His recent live-action projects include the acclaimed John Le Carre projects, The Night Manager and A Most Wanted Man. A licensed attorney in California, Englebardt earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and studied philosophy, political science and economics at Oxford University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.