I'm the Art Director, and I tag-team with our brilliant designer Brittney to make our games stand out. My background is in fine art and my training is in animation, so I like to take a good idea and make it into something beautiful, surprising and unique. My favourite things are fairy tales, comics, and getting paint everywhere.
I love clever, story-driven games, especially hidden object, puzzle and mystery games like the Gretel and Hansel series. I am always up for a cup of tea and a good story.
I look after the product development side of our team. In the past I've created or been responsible for self-serve ad platforms, media destinations, analytics solutions, publishing tools, and online gaming portals amongst other things. I hold a degree specializing in Computer Science from the University of Alberta.
Favorite games past and present: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, Risk, Double Dragon, Wii Sports, NBA Jam
I've been involved in building a range of startups. In 1997, I co-founded and was CEO of The X-Stream Network, pioneer of free Internet access in Europe. After expanding across The Netherlands and Scandinavia, X-Stream was acquired for $75m 2 years after launch by France's LibertySurf. A day later, LibertySurf floated at a $2B valuation on Paris, the biggest Internet IPO in Europe. My other startups include addGloo, a rich media innovator, and Project Breakout, a specialist in online contest communities. I've also advised a number of tech and internet startups. I received a law degree at LSE in England and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Canada.
I handle the research activities for Good World Games and work closely with our non-profit partners. I completed a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Miami and have worked as Project Manager for other Internet startups. I’m very excited by the international development of our games and working with some fascinating partners. I like yoga, reading and olives. And I love my pets Tanqueray and Tonic!
George has started and built a wide range of highly successful companies over the years, and is always at the forefront of innovation. He co-founded and built Harvey's Foods, a leading retail chain of quick service restaurants in Canada and the U.S., as well as Swiss Chalet. George has been involved in the introduction of velcro to North America and the distribution of high-end hi-fi components worldwide. He was a Co-Founder of GS & Associates, a Toronto based internet & media consultancy. He earned his Law Degree at Osgoode Hall Law School and was conferred Queen's Counsel.
Extremely passionate about games, I handle the conceptual game design, user interface design, video editing &many; other oddball jobs at Good World Games. I'm the one tying all those loose ends and bringing bits of everything together. Things that make me smile include fresh laundry, loose-leaf tea, yoga & honey garlic wings. I hold a degree in Integrated Media from the Ontario College of Art & Design.
A renowned visionary and recently CEO of the Carbon War Room co-founded with Sir Richard Branson, Jigar is dedicated to identifying business-as-usual practices and replacing them with low-carbon solutions. Jigar founded SunEdison in 2003 and under his leadership, SunEdison revolutionized the solar industry by introducing a business model to sell solar as a service. The transformation to solar power service agreements is responsible for turning solar services into a multi-billion dollar industry. Jigar is an expert on energy project finance and convincing individuals to embrace energy technology. Jigar holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an MBA from the University of Maryland. Jigar sits on the boards of SB NOW, Earth Day Network, and Greenpeace USA.
Scott Foe is a career product leader and general manager, working in the field of social and mobile game development. He has worked on titles from major brands such as Major League Baseball and MTV, has contributed to over 30 shipped titles, and personally designed or produced 11 games for Facebook, iPhone, and smartphone platforms. Scott was the top executive producer in the games division of Nokia, launching Pocket Kingdom, the world’s first global, massively multiplayer online mobile game, which won a 2004 Game of the Year award from GameSpy. He created Reset Generation, a multiple Game of the Year award-winning free-to-play game that was called “among the finest portable games of all time” and ranked, along with Angry Birds, as “one of the most important handheld games of the past five years” by Pocket Gamer. It was one of the first mobile games to ever receive a score of “10” in reviews. He holds B.S. concentrations in both Mathematics and Computer Science from Antioch College (1999) and certification from the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business Center for Executive Development (2008).
Gerard has over 15 years of operational experience as an executive in the games business and investment banking experience in the digital media sector, having participated in more than 50 transactions. He was VP and Global Head of M&A; for Nokia’s $15 billion smartphone division. He led the largest acquisition in Nokia’s history ($8 billion acquisition of NAVTEQ) and was VP and General Manager for Nokia’s $250 million mobile gaming business unit. He was COO at Sega.com before leading the sale of that division to Nokia in September 2003. Gerard holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Alexander Pasik is CIO at the IEEE and teaches at Columbia University. He has served as CIO at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, founded and managed multimillion-dollar departments at Gartner, Lazard Frères, and Ernst & Young. He has managed large-scale Internet-enabled businesses in technology, consumer and financial industries and during his engagement with Bain & Co., he designed and established a new practice leveraging emerging technologies for new business models. He has also published extensively on trends in IT.
Martin is the co-founder and MD of Cerca Trova Advisors, a San Francisco based boutique investment bank focused on the games and digital media sector. Martin has deep experience in the digital media sector and has negotiated more than 40 M&A; and capital raising transactions valued at over $20 billion. Martin was Director of M&A; and Strategy at Nokia, where he closed the largest acquisition in Nokia’s history ($8 billion acquisition of NAVTEQ). Prior to that, Martin was Vice President at Crimson Investment, a $600 million international private equity and venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Martin holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Management from MIT.