Amir Rahimi — CEO
Creative and Business Leader with almost 20 years of experience across, genres, platforms, and business models. Worked as a Producer at EA for 7 years. Started out as a QA tester and ended up as Senior Producer across these franchises: Command & Conquer, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth and Boom Blox. General Manager at Zynga's Los Angeles studio. Helped operate Empires & Allies. Created and launched CoasterVille. Co-founded TapZen and served as General Manager of the LA studio. Launched This Means WAR! for iOS and Android. Sold TapZen to Kabam in 2014. Established Kabam’s Los Angeles studio and green lighted two big budget mobile games - Marvel Strike Force and Avatar Pandora Rising. In 2017 Kabam LA was acquired by 20th Century Fox. Our mission was to establish games as the third pillar of 20th Century Fox. At FoxNext we launched and self-published Marvel Strike Force. After Disney acquired Fox, they decided to sell FoxNext Games. We were acquired by Scopely in February 2020. At Scopely I served as President, Games overseeing the Action division. After 18 months Netflix approached me with an opportunity to help build their video games division and reunite with my mentor and business partner, Mike Verdu. I joined Netflix in November 2021. As Head of Game Studios, my job is to build and manage a studio organization and bring 1st and 2nd party games to Netflix’s massive, global audience.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Experience: 21 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Game Development
- Mobile Games
Career Highlights
- 20 years of experience in game development.
- Led major game launches at Kabam and FoxNext.
- Transitioned to Netflix to build a game studio.
Work Experience
Netflix
VP, Game Studios (4 yrs 5 mos)
Scopely
President, Games (1 yr 9 mos)
FoxNext
SVP & General Manager Los Angeles (2 yrs 3 mos)
Kabam
VP & General Manager, LA (2 yrs 4 mos)
TapZen
Founder, Studio General Manager - Los Angeles (2 yrs)
Zynga
General Manager (1 yr 4 mos)
Executive Producer (1 yr 7 mos)
Instant Action
Executive Producer (0 mo)
EA
Senior Producer (1 yr)
Producer (2 yrs)
Associate Producer (2 yrs)
Assistant Producer (1 yr)
QA Tester (1 yr)
Education
Information & Computer Science at UC Irvine