Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Remote

• KIN is an invite-only and highly-selective community of distinguished senior operators and accomplished entrepreneurs. KIN’s primary focus is to build and scale entrepreneurial ecosystems globally. KIN is created by Chamaeleon, an early-stage VC firm.

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · United States · Hybrid

• Member of the Skydeck Advisor network, helping to mentor startups.

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• Helping to improve the content HBR publishes as well as help chart its future direction. Provide feedback to our editors, preview new content, and weigh in on ideas from HBR as well as those from the wider world of management and leadership.

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

• Each year, the Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) is an event highly anticipated by GDC attendees. For 2025, I'm on the International Choice Awards Network (ICAN) helping to pick the award recipients.

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · North America · Remote

• Game Data Pros is a company that specializes in providing custom data-driven solutions for game developers and publishers. We offer a wide range of services, including player behavior analysis, game economy design, and predictive modeling. Our team of experts combines data science, game design, and business intelligence to help clients make informed decisions that optimize player engagement, retention, and monetization. Our technology and methodologies have been used by some of the biggest names in the gaming industry to improve the performance of their games and increase revenue.

Jan 2021 – Oct 2021 · 9 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Sep 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs

• Modl.ai uses AI to automatically test games (think: AI powered robots automatically explore, looking for bugs. Like those things in the Matrix, except using their powers for good). The impact is real: better QA coverage, continuous deep testing, faster iterations, shorter time to market with higher quality, ...

Mar 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• FANchise combines fan engagement and activation techniques and technologies pioneered in eSports with more traditional sports (starting with football, but extending out). Results in a massive increase in engagement and the ability to reach whole new audiences. and cutting edge mobile technology,
• FANChise is a new football league defining the future of sports. Come join Joe Montana and other sports luminaries at https://www.fcfl.io and call the shots.

Jan 2019 – Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• TLM Partners, Inc. invents, develops and licenses technology for use in products for the entertainment industry including PC & Console Video Games, Mobile, AR/VR, and Mixed Reality.
• Our team of veteran video game developers have come together to solve tomorrow’s problems in the video game industry. We pride ourselves on the ability to see around certain corners, both in the technology and the market, and move more quickly than the major players.
• TLM Partners, Inc. surveys the tech landscape in both traditional games and adjacent industries to license, develop, and monetize software and technologies for markets coming to maturity in the next 12 - 24 month window. We identify and solve the needs of AAA game development as well as rapidly maturing tools and middleware for VR, AR and the next generation of human-computer interface.
• Our team is currently focused on developing integrated tool chains for a next-generation physics engine, as well as AI, F/X and blockchain. We provide our tools as modules for common game engines such and Unreal and Unity, or as plug-ins for authoring tools such as Maya or Max. We are also available to customize our tools for partners’ internal engines through on-site professional services. See less

Jan 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Helping define and build the startup ecosystem in Serbia (lots of talented people; new to the startup game). PT role where I mentor emerging startups, do diligence, occasionally perform introductions. Sometimes in Serbia, but mostly from the home office at 6 or 7 AM.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

• Help to evaluate and score deals on an as-needed basis.

Aug 2016 – Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Help to invite speakers, participate in panel / presentation ideation, and, most importantly, tweet discount codes.

Mar 2016 – Jun 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos · United States

• Opera Event is a scalability platform for influencer advertising. Basically founded around the core thesis that whenever you have a new form of media, advertisers require the creation of a new aggregation platform to manage the communications. So, just like radio stations got aggregated into networks, and blogs got aggegrated by adsense, in order for influencer advertising to really scale we need the existence of an aggregation platform.
• I was an early investor, and I am an active advisor on strategy and fundraising.

Feb 2013 – Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Redwood City

• Scientific Revenue was a revenue optimization company for digital goods, delivering a platform for automated price management based on bespoke machine learning and data collection algorithms.
• As the founding CEO, I incubated the vision, built the team, raised ~$10M in capital and brought the product to market. We didn't make it, but it was a hell of a ride and I loved every minute of it.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• The usual EIR blend. Some due diligence, some deal flow, and some thinking about the next big thing.

Aug 2009 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Came over with the acquisition of Twofish and continued in the same role (think "the complete value chain, from strategy to requirements to customer").
• Major accomplishments include:
• Complete ownership of the platform and technology organizations, including all aspects of product definition.
• Establishing an offshore presence (Shanghai WFOE) to accelerate payment gateway integrations.
• Oversight of a complete data center rebuild, including achieving PCI Level 1 certification and consistently hitting 99.9% uptime.

Aug 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr

• Joined in August of 2008 to revamp product and engineering (think "the complete value chain, from strategy to requirements to customer"). Under my watch we rebuilt the platform, introduced the "Easy Elements" product line for smaller publishers, and completely reinvented the notion of virtual economy analytics.
• Culminating events: we won the AlwaysOn Top Innovator award for Digital Media. (http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32719) and merged with LiveGamer to form the industry's leading SaaS-based virtual economy platform for companies of all sizes.

Oct 2006 – Apr 2014 · 7 yrs 6 mos

• After finishing Interim CTO contract, stayed on to provide technical and roadmap guidance from advisory board.

Apr 2006 – Oct 2006 · 6 mos

• Retained as Interim CTO to reorganize engineering and product groups. Cut organization by 50%, reorganized product roadmap, and handed everything off to my successor in good shape.
• Stayed on advisory board through IPO (2014).

Oct 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I owned the technology side of the house for this early stage consumer internet startup. Development, QA, and Operations-- if anything went wrong or was delivered late, it was all my fault.

Jan 2004 – Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Drove technology design and implementation for new products, and performed product-management role for existing and new products. Hired and oversaw engineering groups, coordinated development with employees and contractor (including offshore component), evaluated 3rd party technology for use in products. Managed product development scheduling and engineering budget.

Jun 2003 – Nov 2023 · 20 yrs 5 mos

• Provide technical and strategic advice as member of advisory boards for several startups. I limit the number of companies I advise because I like to be a fairly active advisor. Usually this takes the form of:
• Architectural and technological advice
• Hiring and interview assistance
• Help identifying and negotiating with outsourced resources
• Mock investor for funding pitch preparation
• Sounding board for strategy
• Generally opinionated guy.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

• Managed deployments and integration for enterprise customers.

Sep 2002 – Nov 2007 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Founded and helped to run SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG. EmTech (as we like to call it) focuses on new and emerging technologies of interest to people wondering what they'll be doing at their next startup (as an example, we started focusing on Rich Internet Applications and what became known as 'Web 2.0' late in 2003).

Jun 2002 – Jul 2009 · 7 yrs 1 mo

• Long term member of the board for SDForum. Help to initiate/manage strategic relationships, advise on technology direction and, as chair of the SIG committee, manage the 16 SIGs that meet monthly under the SDForum umbrella. Recent focus has been on redefining the structure of the organization, corporate governance, and compensation.

Jul 2000 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Oversaw architecture and infrastructure for enterprise software product. Mentored developers. Planned development and release schedules. Managed QA group and documentation.

Mar 2000 – May 2005 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Author of "Java RMI" (leading book on Java's Remote Method Invocation Framework), co-author of "Java Enterprise Best Practices," and columnist on SUN's Java.net website.

Jun 1997 – Present · 28 yrs 11 mos

• Experienced executive. Smart, capable, and able to think through tough problems. I have deep knowledge of product strategy and definition, even deeper knowledge of how to actually deliver software (especially platforms and SaaS), and strong vertical expertise in machine learning, analytics / data, payments, and gaming.
• If you need someone to own a crucial task, think through a management problem or product issue, help define your software, do a security or architectural review, or just generally get things done better / faster (remember: the scarcest resource at a startup is management bandwidth), I'm your guy.
• Recent engagements include:
• Working with a global company (NASDAQ listed) to benchmark and then redefine their pricing and performance marketing strategy.
• Working with a late-stage (800 employee) to reorgannize their business intelligence team and then advise on global data and machine learning strategy.
• Performing a post-acquisition evaluation for a NASDAQ traded company and helping them make a "repair or start-over" decision.
• Helping a late-stage startup (2000 employees) re-evaluate its architecture and software delivery models, with the goal of moving from an installed application to a SaaS product line.

Jun 1997 – Jul 2000 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Research scientist at Stanford Medical Informatics (SMI). Responsible for large portions of the Protege Knowledge Modeling Framework (including the knowledge model, the axiom language, and the plug-in apis). Also led efforts cross-institutional efforts on the OKBC protocol, DARPA's High Performance Knowledge Base Project (HPKB) and was responsible for the open-sourcing of Protege.