Amir Rahimi

CEO

Los Angeles, California, United States21 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20 years of experience in game development.
  • Led major game launches at Kabam and FoxNext.
  • Transitioned to Netflix to build a game studio.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the video game industry with extensive experience in game development and management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Game DevelopmentMobile Games

Other Skills

MonetizationVideo GamesGameplayMMOSocial GamesGame DesignOnline GamingComputer GamesCasual GamesAnimationConsolePerforce3DComputer GraphicsCharacter Animation

About

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.

Experience

21 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

VP, Game Studios

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Scopely

President, Games

Feb 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Los Angeles, California

Foxnext

SVP & General Manager Los Angeles

Nov 2017Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Kabam

VP & General Manager, LA

Jan 2015May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Tapzen

Founder, Studio General Manager - Los Angeles

Jan 2013Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

Zynga

2 roles

General Manager

Promoted

Aug 2012Dec 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

Executive Producer

Jan 2011Aug 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • at the Los Angeles studio

Instant action

Executive Producer

Jan 2010Jan 2010 · 0 mo

Ea

5 roles

Senior Producer

Jan 2008Jan 2009 · 1 yr

Producer

Promoted

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

Associate Producer

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Assistant Producer

Promoted

Jan 2003Jan 2004 · 1 yr

QA Tester

Jan 2002Jan 2003 · 1 yr

Education

UC Irvine

Information & Computer Science

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