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Game Leadership Summit
Produced in partnership with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). Focused on helping individual leaders at all levels and across all disciplines within the industry maximize business performance and professional success as they navigate the rapidly changing field.
Austin Game Conference 2.0
Digital Kids Media / Engage Digital
Digital Kids Media operated the Digital Kids Conference and Summit series (originally Engage Conference and Expo). Events provided companies the critical information they needed to reach digital kids and connected youth through online and mobile technologies. The New York Digital Kids Conference was held in conjunction with Toy Fair.
LivePitch Media
LivePitch Media created and produced custom entrepreneur and investor-focused conferences and pitch events for AARP. The AARP LivePitch Startup Demo Day was the premier entrepreneur-investor showcase featuring the most exciting companies targeting consumers over the age of fifty.
Tech Career Expo
The App Developers Conference
Fall (west coast) Engage Conference and Expo became the App Developers Conference before being sold to Topics included mobile devices, tablets, televisions, autos and internet connected consumer electronics devices.
Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo
The Game Initiative
Other ventures:
Capital Factory (Mentor)
2009 – 2010
Capital Factory is an early stage accelerator program for tech startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies.
eDedication, Inc.
1999 to 2000
Founded personalized music messaging service that allowed web businesses to generate sales and customer loyalty. Closed seed investors from eBay. Engaged in licensing negotiations and distribution partnerships with EMI Recorded Music, BMG Music, Warner Music Group, Rhino Records and others.
UGO Networks (UGO, LLC)
1996 to 1999
Founded, built and successfully sold online promotions company. Included a web publishing division, ad sales division and affiliate network division serving the $9 billion computer and video game market. Founded in 1996 and Sold in 1998.
Multimedia Wire
1994 to 1996
Founded ground breaking email and fax subscription-based, business-to-business news service focused on games, interactive entertainment and the web. Sold to Phillips Publishing, Inc. in 1996.