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Dr. Rapakko was appointed as a director of the Company on 22nd of April, 2022 upon completion of the acquisition of Evasyst. Dr. Annamaria Rapakko is a financial expert, and a seasoned business executive with a proven track record in leading teams successfully to implement strategic business initiatives retiring from PwC in 2017 as a Senior Partner in the Specialty TaxPractice. She is an expert in finance, audit, cross-border transactions,M&A, and international expansion / global structuring, particularly in the technology and life science industries. Dr. Rapakko has served as an independent director on a number of private for profit and non-profit companies. She is an angel investor and a business advisor helping tech companies with regard to their global footprint and expansion and tax strategy.From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Rapakko worked as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) New Ventures leading a new business venture for a SaaS product in the state tax area.
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Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Director
Ms. Steiger was appointed as a director of the Company on 22nd of April, 2022 upon completion of the acquisition of Evasyst. A former C-suite executive with 14 years' independent director experience on boards of all sizes, both public & private, Heidi spent most of her career at Neuberger Berman, NY, where she led the firm's IPO and sale. She also spent 2 years as Editor of Worth magazine. Other roles include president of a 100-year old family office, investment banker for Bershire Securities, and President of the Eastern half of the Private Bank for US Bank. Industry boards have included financial services, payments, insurance, energy and nuclear, utilities, defense and retailing. Since November 2018 Ms. Steiger has been on the board of Fidelity Investments/Fidelity Strategic Advisors, Boston, MA (chair of Audit,Risk & Cybersecurity Committee).
Mr. Weissberg was appointed as a director of the Company on 22nd of April, 2022 upon completion of the acquisition of Evasyst. In addition to acting as a director of the Company, Mr. Weissberg also acts in the role of Chief Games Officer. Prior to the Company's acquisition of Evasyst, Mr. Weissberg acted as the CEO and Chairman of Evasyst from 2015 to 2018, and then as Chairman and President of Evasyst from 2018 onward. Mr.Weissberg co-founded Evasyst in 2015. A former professional gamer turned entrepreneur; he competed in the esports space from 2005 to 2013 playing titles like Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, World of Warcraft, and Dota 2. Mr. Weissberg has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Director
Mr.Ollila was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors on 22nd of April, 2022 upon completion of the acquisition of Evasyst. Prior to his appointment as CEO and a director of our Company, Mr. Ollila had acted as CEO and a director of Evasyst since October 31 st, 2018. Before joining Evasyst as CEO, Mr. Ollila established a twenty-year legacy of accomplishments as a senior executive and board member throughout the computer gaming, nanotechnology, internet, software, media technology industries. Mr. Ollila was Chief of Staff and VP New Product Innovation at Verve Wireless Inc. from 2015 to 2017 where he was responsible for new product development. At Nokia, over an 8 year period from 2006 to 2014, Mr. Ollila played an integral role in the development and rollout of Nokia's services and also its long-term technology roadmap and innovation portfolio for smart devices starting as Director of Games Strategy and Industry Marketing and attaining the role of Senior Director, Long Term Technology Roadmap and Innovation Portfolio. Mr. Ollila led Nokia's first-party publishing business (games), video & photo sharing business, achieving a global reach in the hundreds of millions. Mr. Ollila was also a core member of Nokia's deal team for Nokia's and Microsoft's strategic agreement in 2011. In addition, Mr. Ollila has held numerous board and advisory positions including, Imagine Intelligent Materials (Independent Director), Blind Squirrel Games (Independent Director), EvoNexus (Member of Selection Committee), Adverty (Advisory Board member), Pyze (Advisory Board member), Kadho (Advisory Board member), Kin Wellness (Independent Board Director from January 2016 - October 2017), advisory board of the Game Developers Conference (Mobile), board member of the EMEA Chapter of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum and Chairman of the Board of Physics Middleware provider Meqon Research AB (acquired by Ageia and now an integral part of the NVIDIA PhysX solution) and is a member of Southern California's start-up incubator EvoNexus's selection committee. Mr. Ollila has a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA from London Business School.
Mr. Smith was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer on April 22nd, 2022 upon completion of the acquisition of Evasyst. Mr. Smith is a serial entrepreneur, starting his first venture in college, an online poker site, and has founded other businesses in social gaming and clean-tech. His finance career began after college as a Financial Analyst at Wells Fargo and continued through his own startups where he developed a keen talent for structuring fundraises. Mr. Smith has worked with over 40 startups as an independent consultant, a Senior Advisor forLance Capital LLC, and was a previous Advisor for Evasyst, and remains anAdvisor for Guru Development Co. Mr.Smith graduated from the University of Arizona, Eller Business College. He previously held positions as Senior Advisor for Lance Capital, LLC (March 2021- present), Director of Finance for Scepter, Inc (March 2021-March 2022), and was CFO for Iteros, Inc (April 2016-Sept 2018).