The Biggest Names in Video Games

Peter is also the Founder of YouWeb Incubator which has incubated several gaming companies including mobile and social gaming innovator Crowdstar, and OpenFeint (acquired by GREE in 2011), the world’s largest mobile gaming network with 200 Million users across iOS and Android. Before founding YouWeb, Peter was Founder and CEO of Business Signatures, backed by TPG Ventures and Walden International, and acquired in 2006 by Entrust. Peter was founding CTO of Webvan, which filed for the largest IPO in Silicon Valley in 1999 ($8B), where he led a 400-employee team to build one of the most sophisticated supply chain platforms in the world in a record 12 months.

Brian Lent co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Lent has driven Medio's growth to the forefront as the leading mobile-optimized platform to enable mobile predictive analytics technologies for mobile operators, publishers and consumers. Under Lent's leadership, the company has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2008, was named one of IDC's 10 Wireless Entertainment Players to Watch in 2008 and was a recipient of Frost & Sullivan's 2008 North American Mobility Award.

Prior to Medio, Lent was the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a leading business analytics enterprise software company. At Intelligent Results, Lent developed analytic solutions to enable smarter customer-facing decisions, turned historical interactions with customers such as purchases and payments into predictions of future behavior, grew the company to more than four key lines of business and positioned it for its successful acquisition by First Data Corp (NYSE: FDC). Prior to this, Lent held the position of director of information technology at Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN). There, he also held senior technical and marketing management positions and led efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Before becoming part of Amazon, Lent served as principal and director of applications at Junglee Corporation which was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Lent, Junglee's first employee, pioneered new Internet database technologies that helped the company transform the internet by launching the first shopping comparison search engine.

Early in his career and his academics at Stanford University, Lent received a National Science Foundation and Department of Defense Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship. As a NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, Lent strived to become a knowledge expert, aiming to advance the nation's technological infrastructure and contributing significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. He also held research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics. Lent has contributed to several professional publications and journals, including SIGMOD, VLDB, SIGIR, KDD, been a speaker at many industry organizations including CTIA Wireless, Wireless Influencers and Mobile World Congress. He is a patent holder on the topics of data mining, information retrieval and database systems. Lent is a member of various technology advisory boards in the areas of search, advertising and customer analytics.

Dylan Collins is Executive Chairman of Fight My Monster (www.FightMyMonster.com), the fastest-growing online game for boys in Europe.

He is also Chairman of Treemetrics, the world’s leading forestry analytics company.

Dylan is one of the most experienced Internet entrepreneurs in Europe, building three companies with three successful exits over the last decade. He was recently named as Enterprise Ireland’s Startup Ambassador.

In 2007 Dylan founded Jolt Online Gaming, which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt successfully launched a range of free-to-play games on browser and Facebook including Championship Manager, Legends of Zork, Utopia Kingdoms and Playboy Party. The company was the first to attract major licenses into the social games space, signing deals with Eidos, Playboy and several others. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy.

As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. DemonWare technology was used to connect millions of players on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles in some of the biggest games in the world such as Call of Duty, Splinter Cell, Guitar Hero and many others. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher.

Dylan’s first company, Phorest (launched in 2000), was one of Ireland’s leading mobile messaging (SMS) companies. Providing a range of SMS products and services to the small business sector, the company enjoyed rapid growth. In 2002, Phorest was acquired by MBO and is now the leading appointment management software company in the beauty sector across Ireland and UK.

Dylan blogs at www.founderware.co and can be found on Twitter as @MrDylanCollins.

Justin brings nearly 20 years of experience in the interactive and emerging markets space. His career spans international business development, sales, licensing, customer support, digital distribution,and mobile for video game publishers, developers and technology companies.

Justin currently is President Theseus Games, Inc., a digital entertainment consulting company specializing in strategic relationship acquisition and management. In the past he has served as Vice President Business Development for EmSense Corporation, a quantitative biosensory metrics analysis company, Senior Manager Business Development & Latin America at Activision-Blizzard, a leading video game developer and publisher. Justin holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was also music director for the college radio station and an on-air DJ

As CEO of RampRate Sourcing Advisors and DeepStrat, Tony Greenberg has been an idea generator transforming perceptions and industries since he was 17.

Under Greenberg's leadership for more than a decade, RampRate has radically changed how IT services are purchased, creating actionable, data-driven, sourcing information that has saved tens of millions of dollars and thousands of hours of headaches for major clients in entertainment, Internet services, finance, media and video games.

DeepStrat, a spinoff from RampRate's strategic research arm, focuses on growth-advisory services for companies in the digital media value chain, particularly in mergers & acquisitions, ramp-ups and funding plans.

Greenberg is a charismatic and visionary speaker at technology, media and entertainment conferences and at colleges such as Harvard University and UCLA. His writing appears regularly in Huffington Post, Only Time Buys Trust and other outlets. He has frequently quoted in outlets such as All Things D, Business Week, Wired, Computer World, Slashdot, and Ars Technica. Greenberg is active in Tech Coast Angels and the Clinton Global Initiative.

Before founding RampRate, Greenberg headed the sales & marketing division of Raindance. He previously was SVP of business development and marketing for Digital Entertainment Network, and a senior executive at Exodus Communications (now Savvis). He also has experience in chain retailing, direct-response marketing, sales culture, business development and manufacturing through a series of other companies that he founded and later sold.

Vikas is a member of the prestigious global organization YPO (Young President’s Organization), Chairperson of the non-profit organization, The McLuhan Festival of the Future, and sits on the Board of Advisors for N4 Systems and Interscope Directories. In addition he is a frequent speaker and lecturer at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Business and Ryerson University's Business and Technology program. In 2008, Vikas was the recipient of the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year Award and has also been featured in a broad range of print and television media. Vikas is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, Canada’s premier technological educational institution.

Since 2008 he joined G-cluster, as Vice President of strategy and content.