CHIEF FINANCE STRATEGIST
· Ken Greatbatch (London)
Seasoned international corporate and private equity executive with merger, structure, acquisition expertise in multiple fields from education to chemicals to tech and philanthropy including most recently:
· Chair · Pestalozzi World, enabling education for 10,000 disadvantaged children in Asia and Africa. Teaching practical skills, technical knowledge and ethics
· CEO · GEMS Education, bringing out the Genius in 100,000 Children in 40 schools in the Middle East
· Founding Director/CFO · AZ Electronic Materials selling specialty chemical materials used in the manufacture of integrated circuits and flat panel displays. Ken took $450m private equity acquisition to $2bn FTSE 250 IPO.
Previously at Board level, Ken managed and restructured international chemical and industrial companies in the Asia Pacific region.
CHIEF AI VIRTUAL TUTOR STRATEGIST
· Arun Makhija
(Toronto)
Successful C-Level leader with extensive experience in operational tech and business expansion across APAC:
· CO-Founder· Underlings (A stealth AI startup creating human-friendly 'AI workers')
· CEO, CFO, COO · FoodPanda (Powered by tech and operational excellence, Arun helped foodpanda grow its quick-commerce footprint in more than 400 cities across 11 markets in Asia))
· Associate · Ernst & Young (Worked with distressed companies to provide corporate advisory)
· Regional Manager · Opportunity International (Initiated and administered the start-up of the Hong Kong office)
· MBA · IESE Business School
Arun will translate knowledge gained at Underlings to the task of creating human-friendly Virtual Alien Tutors in the City of Six Towers. The father of young children, Arun is committed to creating careful child-safe environments and interaction between children and AI Virtual Tutors.
CHIEF GAMING STRATEGIST
· Arron Goolsbey (Seattle)
Seasoned executive with 25+ years of experience in the digital gaming, consumer products, and big tech industries.
· President & CO) · Mythical Games, leading the strategy, vision, and execution of games-first studio and marketplace platforms that leverage Web3 technologies to create immersive and engaging AAA game experiences across all devices.
· Global Head of Developer Partnerships & Operations (Reality Labs)· Meta, building the metaverse for billions of players. Leading a multi-disciplinary global team to grow the impact of interactive games inside the world's largest social networking platform.
· Vice President - Head of Platform - Battle.net & Online Products · Blizzard Entertainment, leading a world-class engineering, operations, and product management organization that supports one of the biggest online game platforms with 10+ published AAA titles serving hundreds of millions of players globally.