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Andela is solving the technical talent shortage by building distributed engineering teams with Africa's top software developers. In just under 5 years, Andela has grown to nearly 2000 people and become known as the "Best Place to Work in Africa," with tech campuses in Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, and Kigali. Andela developers work as full-time engineers with companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to high-growth startups like Gusto and Cloudflare.Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV, and Spark Capital, Andela is powering global engineering teams while catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across Africa.

Greg Borrud is the VP of Games and GM for the Los Angeles and London operations of Niantic, Inc.Greg was the CEO and co-Founder of Seismic Games - a game studio dedicated to developing high quality next-generation game franchises for emerging digital platforms. Seismic Games is best known as the developer of 'Marvel Strike Force' with FoxNext Studios, 'Blade Runner Revelations' for Google Daydream, 'Skylanders Battlecast' with Activision, and 'Smugglers Run' at Galaxy's Edge (Disneyland/Disney World) with Walt Disney Imagineering. Niantic acquired Seismic Games in July 2018. With the acquisition all development teams under Seismic join the Niantic family with the goal of using emerging technologies to develop games that will enrich our experiences in the physical world. Prior to founding Seismic, Greg was a co-Founder and the Head of Production for Pandemic Studios. In its 11 year history, Pandemic developed some of the best selling franchises in the industry including ‘Star Wars: Battlefront,’ ‘Mercenaries,’ ‘Destroy All Humans,’ ‘Full Spectrum Warrior,’ and ‘The Saboteur’. In 2005, Pandemic joined forces with Bioware, a leader in role playing games, and was acquired by private equity firm Elevation Partners. The new joint venture was subsequently purchased by Electronic Arts in 2007. While at EA Greg served at the COO/VP of Games for Pandemic under the EA umbrella.Greg got his start in the video game industry as a Producer working for Activision producing PC games including ‘Dark Reign’ and ‘Muppet Treasure Island’. Greg attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and California State University, Long Beach receiving his degree in Theater with an emphasis in Producing.