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As Zynga’s CEO and with over 25 years of experience in interactive entertainment, I’ve led the company’s turnaround and transition to rapid growth. Our market cap during my tenure has nearly tripled, due to optimizing live services and fortifying the company’s portfolio of wildly popular franchises, including CSR Racing, Words With Friends, and Zynga Poker. Our groundbreaking series of studio acquisitions, including Gram Games and Small Giant Games, along with innovation and success across our games portfolio, has positioned Zynga as among the fastest growing public gaming companies in the world in 2019. Since I joined in 2016, we have acquired a pipeline of games, including global hits Empires & Puzzles and Merge Dragons! and have secured game development partnerships with some of the world’s most iconic brands and entertainment franchises, such as Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. Most recently, I served as the Executive Vice President of EA Mobile, where I led strategy, publishing and product development for the company’s fast-growing mobile games business. In that role, I managed EA’s portfolio of popular mobile franchises including The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Plants vs. Zombies, Real Racing, Bejeweled, Star Wars, Minions, SimCity, EA SPORTS and The Sims. Since joining Zynga, I’ve served as the Chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board for the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. I previously served on the Board of Directors for Cooliris, a mobile content and communication technology company; and, Graphiq, a data visualization company.

Victor Kislyi is a CEO & Founder at Wargaming and is based in Cyprus. He studied at Belarussian State University between 1993 and 1999.

Erik is an 18-year veteran of the video game industry. Erik's initial experience in the industry was as a software engineer and producer on high profile PC games at Interplay. Erik was later the CEO and founder of Taldren, an independent game development company and lead designer on the Starfleet Command series of games published by Interplay and Activision. As the CEO and founder of GoPets, Erik was a pioneer in virtual goods casual online gaming. His Seoul, Korea based company was acquired by Zynga in 2009. Prior to starting Bee Cave Games, Erik served as a leader in product management and as General Manager across a number of titles at Zynga including Mafia Wars, FarmVille, and new IP in the casino division.

Mark Ethier is a Co-founder and CEO at iZotope Inc and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1997 and 2001, New England Conservatory of Music between 1996 and 1997, and Shrewsbury Sr High School between 1992 and 1997.

Alan Ricco is a Chief Executive Officer at Naughty Dog and is based in North East, Delhi, Delhi, India.