New Bidstack Board / Team30 May 2019 22:41
Will Kassoy:
3x creator of $billion games franchise (Call of Duty, Guitar hero, Tony Hawk Pro Skater)
Ex CEO of AdColony which he led from pre-revenue to its eventual US$350 million sale to Opera Limited in 2014
Ex Disney
Ex Activision
Lewis Sherlock:
Verizon Media - Head of Demand Platforms (DSP), EMEA at Oath
AOL - Head of Enterprise Strategy
Adap.tv - Senior Director, EMEA (acquired by AOL 2013, $405m)
WPP - GroupM - Xaxis - Director, Account Management and Planning, UK
WPP - Media Innovation Group (MIG) - Head of Agency - UK
Mike Hayes:
Ex CEO of Sega, successfully turned around the business into a success
Pete Beeney:
Global Holding Company Lead at Spotify. He manages the WPP account.
Joel Livesey:
Director of Partnerships, EMEA at The Trade Desk, Inc.
Moritz Natalini:
Manager at King gaming who make Candy Crush, $5.9billion exit to Activision Blizzard
Media Product Manager at Activision Blizzard
Notice the two high level links to WPP which is the largest advertising company in the world.
Notice the high level link to Trade Desk which is the largest DSP in the world.
Notice high level experience from Spotify – the model the gaming industry is adopting.
Notice ex CEO of SEGA – Gaming giant.
Notice creator of 3 separate $billion games franchises.
Notice the start up experience these guys have from taking start up to hundreds of millions to billion dollar exits within short time frames.
James is doing a momentous job at cornering the “whos who” of the whole market from both supply and demand sides. You have to be a fool to bet against this bunch.. and it sounds like there could be more heavy hitters joining too! (the advisory board not on salaries only incentivised by SP though options james says "every single bidstack shoreholder would be very happy at the price")