Meet the Team
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Walter Driver
CEOAs the founder of O Negative Media and co-founder of Ignition Interactive, Walter developed social apps and games used by millions of monthly users. An unintentional pioneer of the caveman diet for the last 20 years, he starred in commercials broadcast throughout Latin America and sold his first screenplay to a Hollywood studio.
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Eytan Elbaz
CSOEytan was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which created the AdSense product that was acquired by Google in 2003 in a nine figure acquisition. He created video shorts on bullying that are currently on exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance, and played in a band that opened for Tom Petty at UCLA.
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Andy Kleinman
CBOPreviously a GM at Zynga, Andy is a startup veteran, wearing many hats as a founder, executive, investor and advisor. After founding Emepe3.com at 17, he went on to co-found Vostu. Shortly thereafter he joined Three Melons, which was acquired by Playdom, then Disney. Andy has also produced feature films in five countries.
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Ankur Bulsara
CTOPreviously the Lead Software Developer on MySpace's Developer Platform, Ankur was a software architect at several startups before co-founding Scopely. He's also well known as a professional drummer who previously toured with his band, Seneca Hawk.
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Eric Futoran
VP, Revenue & OperationsA startup veteran with four degrees (EE, CS, JD, MBA), Eric led the pivot that shifted Aggregate Knowledge to an agency business model and built Hooked Media's gaming network of over 300 publishers. Despite a lifetime of aggressive hockey-playing, he still has a full set of his own teeth.
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Margaret Orenstein
Director, Growth OperationsDespite her lifelong dream of working at a grocery store checkout, Margaret ended up with a Harvard MBA and became a management consultant. She prides herself on being “normal” even though she was one of seven children, has traveled to 40 countries and lived in a country that starts with “K” (Kuwait, of course).
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Jason Weiss
General ManagerAfter graduating with two degrees from Stanford, Jason helped grow Trilogy Software from a few dozen to 1,200 employees and served as its European Managing Director. A veteran of multiple startups, he has also produced several independent feature films and racked up over three million frequent-flier miles.
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Justin Stofle
Lead iOS DeveloperAn accomplished indie game developer, Justin once built his own social network and sold one of his iOS games to a funded startup. His passion for building dates back to age 12 (when he built several computers) and even further back to age 2 (when he used to take doorknobs apart and put them back together).
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Travis Chen
Chief Game DesignerPreviously a Design Programmer for Guitar Hero and a Lead Mission Designer on an upcoming Call of Duty title, Travis has run 9 marathons and is mentally prepping for his 10th. His long history of hardware hacking includes a MIDI synthesizer from a Commodore 64, a light sensor driven synth inside a Nintendo ROB, and an 8x8 arcade button Monome matrix.
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Bill Kang
Director of Strategic InitiativesBill has a bachelor's degree from Harvard, an MBA from Wharton, and should probably have an honorary PhD in terrible puns. Raised in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines, he's also a street musician and lapsed Eagle Scout.
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Mike Thomas
Lead Platform DeveloperAs a college student, Mike was hired by his school's VP of Technology to hack and discover flaws and vulnerabilities in the school's networks. He also achieved a perfect score on his SATs and once raised a pig. Today, his obsession with elegant code is matched only by his passion for craft beers.
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Dr. Eric Kabisch
User Experience LeadWith a PhD from UC Irvine in Informatics and an MFA in Art Computation Engineering, Eric's specialty lies at the intersection of art, games, and computer science. Previous projects include light-seeking robots, breathalyzer-based game interfaces, and his beloved augmented reality Volkswagen Vanagon.
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Aaron Geisler
Lead Game Engine DeveloperA game engine savant, Aaron has been building his own indie games since the age of 14. Despite having the drawing abilities of a 2nd grader, his numerous iOS and Flash titles exhibit his world-class animation skills and uncanny understanding of game physics.
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Avram Lyon
Lead Android DeveloperA highly active open source project contributor, Avram is one of Scopely's most prolific and versatile engineers. Fluent in six spoken languages and conversant in six more, he's also earning a PhD at UCLA in Colonial Literatures of the Russian Empire. Seriously.
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Henry Lowenfels
Platform PartnershipsA Harvard graduate and entertainment startup veteran, Henry's BD expertise makes him uniquely qualified to build lasting and valuable partnerships. He is an avid runner who is currently training to complete the Los Angeles marathon... barefoot.
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Ilias Beshimov
Product ManagerOriginally from Kyrgyzstan, Ilias lived in New Delhi, London, Boston, Beijing, and San Francisco before ultimately landing in Los Angeles. An ex-Zyngite and Scotch connoisseur, he's played chess with a World Champion and can name the make/model of any car on sight.
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Lauren Hayes
Director, Special ProjectsRaised in a family of entrepreneurs, in the 4th grade Lauren founded an import business to sell her peers much sought-after Tamagotchis and Razor Scooters, then astutely spent the profits on Apple stock. More recently, she helped manage nearly 40 start-ups at StartEngine, an LA-based accelerator.
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Nolan Fabricius
Artist/IllustratorA naturally gifted illustrator, Nolan's talents became clear moments after he grasped his first crayon, and his work has since been featured across his home state of Kansas and the interwebs. Despite being born nearly blind, he once chased down an armed street thief and single-handedly turned him in to the authorities.
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Fabrizio Milo
Platform DeveloperRaised on an olive grove in Southern Italy (where, he notes, computers were considered tools of the devil), Fabrizio previously worked on high performance computing at IBM and high frequency trading at FATTOC. His masters thesis on using GPUs to decrypt OpenPGP keyrings was published internationally.
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Emily Procek
Community Manager/Office ManagerEmily is a Jill of all trades whose culinary magic is exceeded only by her logistical wizardry. When she isn't keeping Scopely running like a well-oiled machine, she's a professional luchadora and recreational synchronized swimmer.
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Kris Zalameda
DesignerIn addition to being an expert in two of the four elements of hip hop (turntablism and grafitti art), Kris is an accomplished and multi-talented designer who honed his skills creating designs for Martha Stewart and Blue Man Group before making his mark at Scopely.
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Jameel Al-Aziz
Platform DeveloperJameel shelved his dream of becoming a professional base-jumper-slash-scuba-diver to join Scopely. A former president of the Linux Users Group at UCLA, he and a friend single-handedly created their high school CS program.
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Tim Gostony
Mobile DeveloperA semi-finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup, Tim once built a robot that's used by researchers to inspect insect specimens at the Smithsonian and other leading institutions. In his spare time, he creates his own indie iOS games and is a member of a top-ranked guild in World of Warcraft.
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Kayli Robledo
Community ManagerKayli once sent over 2,000 individual emails to our users in a 24-hour period to keep them happy and well-informed during a regional server outage -- just one of countless examples of her amazing mastery of community management. She brings that same relentless spirit to everything she does, from dirt biking to knitting over a hundred 20-foot scarves for herself.
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Martin Kilp
Business DevelopmentMartin hails from Estonia by way of The Netherlands, where he organized sessions of the European Youth Parliament and worked in corporate development and financial services. He has a twin, which is a popular theory for explaining his extraordinary throughput.
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Max Goedjen
Mobile DeveloperMax began developing iOS apps at age 15, with one title hitting the iTunes Top 100 and being covered by MacWorld and another featured on the CNET homepage. An avid motorcylist, Max is currently nearing his goal of eating his weight in bacon in just six months.
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Matt Kanninen
Mobile DeveloperMatt joined our Android team after years of mobile game trailblazing with teams at JAMDAT and MySpace. Combining his loves of gaming and cartography, he’s spent countless hours creating acclaimed Starcraft and Uniwar maps. As a new father, Matt spends his free time raising the next generation of gamer.
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Jaclyn Kyre
RecruiterA former competitive wakeboarder, Jaclyn was the first of her family to leave Michigan when she became employee #2 of the NY fitness wear brand that holds the Guinness Record for “Most Expensive Sports Bra.” Instrumental in doubling the size of her last startup to 85 people, Jaclyn's blinged-out pink laptop is a source of constant envy at Scopely HQ.
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Peter Attardo
QA EngineerA math phenom, Peter once took first place in a New England-wide math competition and later earned his grocery money playing poker. As Scopely's Quality Assurance lead, he has a keen eye for the vulnerabilities in existing systems. He once used that skill to get his satirical piece on a purported link between beer pong and STDs reported as fact by Fox News.
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Nick Freilich
Content StrategistNick went from playing timpani alongside the LA Philharmonic in high school to producing festival-honored films at Brown and Northwestern, with a Georgetown law degree sandwiched in between. When not performing sketch comedy or composing electronic music, he is Scopely’s Content Strategist, putting his stamp on everything from app store optimization to recruiting and much more.
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Tiago Domingos
Director, Product ManagementTiago’s precocious election to the Assembly of Lisbon, Portugal at 19 was foreshadowed decades earlier, when he joyrode the family tractor at the age of three. A rabid sports fan and closet card shark, he is the one guy you don’t want at your poker table.
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Moonlit Wang
Revenue ManagerA renaissance woman, Moonlit models both data and clothing. After founding Harvard’s fencing club, Moonlit went on to direct a fashion show featuring her original choreography. When she’s not giving presentations that blend complex math with celebrity photos, she enjoys providing men her own unique brand of makeovers.
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Craig Cerceo
Mobile DeveloperA skilled athlete in real life as well as online, Craig played water polo at the University of Iowa and was ranked one of the 100 best NHL '09 players in the world. Despite an utter lack of programming experience, Craig earned an MS in Game Development from DePaul at age 25 -- and played drums in a Metallica cover band along the way.
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Jake Puffer
Web DeveloperA crackerjack web developer and crack shot duck hunter, Jake's talents have always been incredibly diverse. If you can't find him at his desk, he might be rehearsing with a barbershop quartet, driving an ice truck, or brewing bathtub gin. Seriously.
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Lance Bradley
Platform DeveloperWhen Lance isn’t coding for forty hours straight, he enjoys building vintage analog stereos and restoring arcade games. Despite winning awards for photography and water color in high school, Lance declined multiple scholarship offers to study art; instead he founded a natural language search engine startup right out of college.
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Darion Lowenstein
VP, Game DevelopmentAfter graduating high school at 14, Darion began his gaming career immediately with a stint in QA. Since then, he has produced games at Rockstar and directed at EA Mobile, working on titles such as NBA Jam and the Simpsons. A legally ordained minister, Darion has married two couples, with a third one coming later this year.
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Miguel Espinosa
IT ManagerPerhaps the world’s biggest LA Dodgers fan, Miguel spends his days at Scopely ensuring that everything plugged into the wall is running smoothly. Don't be fooled by his Paul Frank bunny slippers and friendly demeanor – he's actually a trained MMA fighter.
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Hutch Mills
QA TesterAlto, tenor, soprano – Hutch is a master of all things saxophone, and has recorded on two albums, as well as peformed live on an American Idol season finale. Before joining Scopely as Lead Tester, Hutch worked as an eSports columnist, covering dozens of League of Legends tournaments.
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Ben Berman
Mobile DeveloperAs a freshman at Harvard, Ben journeyed to the Russian tundra with his brother to make a documentary about aboriginal Siberian reindeer herders. Thanks to years of high school debate, Ben can tell how much time has passed without a clock – a skill he willfully ignores during his marathon coding sessions.
