What are the previous projects that BitGuild team worked on?
Jared Psigoda
CEO
Prior to founding BitGuild, Jared was the co-founder and CEO of Reality Squared Games (R2Games)
Curtis Chiu
COO
With over 17+ years of game industry experience, Curtis’ skillset spans across development, publishing, and operations over every major gaming platform. He has worked with various top gaming companies in the US and Asia as an executive producer and product manager such as Kabam, Outspark, Sega, and Konami.
Mikhail Larionov
CTO
Mikhail is a full-stack product and engineering leader with over a decade of experience in gaming and cryptocurrencies. Prior to BitGuild, Mikhail led the Messenger Platform engineering team at Facebook, overseeing the product from inception to public launch. Previously, he worked at The Walt Disney Company as a product lead on Playdom games such as Gardens of Time.
Sean Keith
Vice President, Business Development
Sean has a wealth of experience in business development with a focus on Asian markets. He entered the gaming industry as Director of International Business Development for Reality Squared Games. Later, Sean went on to work for FoxNext, where he was responsible for leveraging FOX IP to create, foster, and execute strategic partnerships with game developers and publishers.
Those are some pretty competent people.
Well, this is not all; they have also very experienced and competent advisors:
Brock Pierce
Chairman, The Bitcoin Foundation; Co-founder, Blockchain Capital, Block.one
Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising, and investing in disruptive businesses. He is a pioneer in the digital currency realms of both gaming and blockchain technology. He founded IGE and IMI, which were world leaders in digital currency trading for video games as well as ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers. He is an early investor in Bitcoin and was one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale.
Justin Sun
Founder, TRON
Justin Sun is the founder of TRON and the CallMe app. He was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list three times between 2015 and 2017. He previously served as the Chief Representative in Greater China for Ripple Labs.
Kevin Chou
Chairman & CEO, KSV eSports
Kevin is the Chairman and co-founder of KSV eSports, an eSports company bridging Silicon Valley technology savvy and Korean gaming preeminence. Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of Kabam, a leader in developing console-quality mobile games which was sold for nearly $1 billion to Netmarble, 21st Century FOX, and GAEA. Kevin serves on the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley.
Leo Wang
Founding Partner, PreAngel
Leo is founding partner of the PreAngel Fund, which currently manages over 1 billion CNY in assets and has invested in over 300 startups from the US and China. PreAngel entered the cryptocurrency market in 2014, and is an angel investor in companies like NEO and ObEN PAI.
Yi Shi
Chairman, oBike, DotC United Group
Yi is the founder and CEO of technology company DotC United Group. The company owns mobile advertising platform Avazu, app developer DotC and data business intelligence platform Noogenesis. Yi Shi has been recognized three times by Forbes as one of China and Asia’s 30 under 30 entrepreneurs as well as Fortune China’s 40 under 40. He also serves as chairman and founding investor of oBike, the Southeast Asian-based bike sharing platform.
and finally The 2100 Fund Club
The 2100 Club Fund is a blockchain investment fund and incubator founded by FunCity Capital, Binance, and other strategic partners.