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Robert A. Kotick (born 1963) is an American businessman who currently serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Activision Blizzard. He was the head of several technology companies early in his career. He purchased a stake in Activision in 1990 and became CEO the next year. Kotick engineered the Activision Blizzard merger, and he became CEO of the combined company in 2008. He is on several company boards. From 2003 until 2008, he was a director at Yahoo!. In February 2012, he became a non-executive director of The Coca-Cola Company. He has also served on the board of the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) since he co-founded the organization in 2009.

Nick Earl is the President of Worldwide Studios at Kabam, a leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Nick oversees the strategy and development of Kabam’s games across the company’s global studios, including hit franchises such as Marvel Contest of Champions, Fast & Furious and Kingdoms of Camelot. A 20-year industry veteran, Nick previously served as senior vice president and general manager at EA Mobile, where he oversaw such free-to-play hits as The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims Free Play and Real Racing 3. Prior to EA Mobile, Nick was senior vice president of EA Games launching franchise games such as Knockout Kings, James Bond, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings and Dead Space. He also served as the Vice President of Product Development at Eidos and as Executive Producer and General Manager at The 3DO Company. Nick graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Harry Strauss Zelnick (born June 26, 1957) is an American businessman. Born in Boston and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, he attended Columbia High School, Wesleyan University, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School. He is the founder, chief executive officer (CEO), and managing partner of private equity firm ZMC, the chairman and CEO of video game company Take-Two Interactive, and the former chairman of media conglomerate CBS Corporation.

Jawahar Chatpar is a Chairman/President/CEO at Cyber Digital Inc. He has experience at Nortel Networks and has worked as Board Member at Cyber Digital Inc and General Manager at Bayly Engineering Ltd. Jawahar attended University of Waterloo and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT).

Frédéric Chesnais is a graduate of Paris Institute of Political Studies and holds degrees in Finance and Law. Frédéric Chesnais started his career as a financial consultant (Arthur Andersen) and practiced as a lawyer focused on merger and acquisitions (Archibald Andersen). He then worked for Lazard Frères from 1995 to 2000 From 2001 to 2007, he was part of the management team of the Atari Group, the videogame publisher, first as Deputy COO and Chief Financial Officer of the Group, and then as Chief Executive Officer of Atari Interactive. In 2007, he left Atari to create his own videogame production company. In 2013, he became a significant shareholder of the Atari Group through the purchase of Atari securities held by BlueBay.

Steve Janiak is a Chief Executive Officer at Harmonix Music Systems and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked as Senior Product Manager at Palm Inc, Service Line Manager at Nokia, and Head of Product Management/Business Development at Nokia. Steve attended Harvard University between 1992 and 1996 and D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University between 2003 and 2006.

Paul guides zSpace, Inc.’s vision of “Bringing zSpace to the mainstream.” Prior to zSpace, he was CEO for Chancery Software, the leading provider of Enterprise Student Administrative Systems. Paul built a successful team and profitably grew the business, resulting in the sale of the company to Pearson Inc. Paul has also held senior positions in general management, sales, marketing, and corporate development at Motorola Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Inacom Corporation.