Tommy Wu
Co-Founder & CEO
Favorite Games: ME2, BG2, FF6, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart
Strengths: Data creation & analysis, structuring, pattern recognition
Weakness: Not a fan of networking / small talk

Tommy was previously an investment professional at Elevation Partners, a $2 billion private equity fund focused on digital media and interactive entertainment investments.  Access to spectrum of deals ranging from mature buyouts (e.g. traditional video game companies such as BioWare and Pandemic) to growth equity investments (e.g. Facebook, Yelp). While at Elevation, Tommy worked alongside John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts and Greg Richardson, CEO of BioWare Pandemic / Rumble Entertainment. Tommy started his career at Morgan Stanley IBD working on large scale private equity buyouts and graduated 2003 from UC Berkeley magna cum laude with a degree in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research.

Shawn Chiao
Co-Founder & CTO
Favorite Games: MechWarrior 2, FF Tactics, Civ4, FFX, Mirror's edge
Strengths: Jack of all trades, pragmatic, ability to simplify
Weakness: Headstrong and can be a lone wolf

Shawn was previously a flash engineer at Gazillion (Slipgate Ironworks), an MMORPG studio headed by John Romero, the co-founder of Doom/Quake, project lead of Ravenwood Fair and a key pioneer in video games.  Shawn often moonlighted as a producer of award winning independent casual games. Previously he built high volume, database-driven projects for top musicians including official websites for R.E.M., Linkin Park, and Counting Crows and graduated 2003 from UC Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.