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.
Pemo Theodore
John Linden CEO Mythical Games #cryptogames
John Linden CEO Mythical Games, a game platform company focused on building player-owned economies with top game developers and publishers. Prior to Mythical Games, John was the President of Seismic Games (acquired by Niantic Labs), developer of Marvel Strike Force. Prior to Seismic Games, he was a Studio Head at Activision Blizzard on the Call of Duty and Skylanders franchises. Before the games industry, John was the Co-Founder / CTO at Adknowledge and at OpenX and built his own startups, Planet Alumni (acquired by Reunion.com) and Litmus Media (acquired by Think Partnership). John is passionate about video games, the future of blockchain technologies and bringing emerging technologies to the mass market.
Crypto Games and Digital Collectibles
DISCUSSION: John Linden CEO Mythical Games; Rui Zhang Vice President gumi Inc; Mickey Maher Head Revenue & Gaming Partnerships Dapper Labs; Mike Jones, Helmsman, 8 Circuit Studios; Sam Englebardt Co-Founder/Partner Galaxy Digital; Jim Gatto, Partner Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP; Yiseul Cho, Venture Partner FBG Capital; MODERATOR: Mark Albertson, Silicon Valley journalist
Cherie Liu Managing Partner Outpost Capital #blockchaininvestment
Cherie Liu Managing Partner Outpost Capital as well as the Chief Marketing Officer and Enterprise Partnership Manager of MOAC, a blockchain company based in Silicon Valley. Her responsibilities include expanding the MOAC ecosystem to bring the company’s multi-layer blockchain architecture to a wider audience. Additionally, she has taken a leadership role in forging partnerships with companies looking to embrace blockchain solutions. As a Wall Street veteran, Cherie is focused on investing in and advising blockchain, consumer technology, and cleantech companies. A graduate of both Temple University (Class of 2014) and Columbia University (Master’s degree, Class of 2016), she is experienced in team-building, operations, marketing strategy building, and management.