CEO, BOARD DIRECTOR

Mike is an experienced entrepreneur with over 20 years experience successfully launching start-ups and turning around and scaling stagnant businesses. Prior to joining BlueLine, Mike was Head of the GCR BD for Amazon Game Services. Previously, Mike was the Country Manager for Vungle, where he was responsible for growing the regional operations in China and increasing revenue from 3M to 60M USD revenue in just 18 months and contributed to the exit to Blackrock for 750mil USD. Additionally, Mike launched the largest strategic IP trading platform in Asia, with revenues exceeding 100M USD as CEO in 2010 before he joined EA, Disney, and then Zynga as executive. He also started a company as founders of a JV entity with the Chinese Government called Centrixnet, implementing an online gaming platform with appropriate monitoring processes to start one of the first e-sport platforms in China.

PRESIDENT

Dave is an experienced video game executive with over 28 years creating highly rated interactive entertainment. As President of BlueLine, Dave oversees the day-to-day operations and creative production of their games. Previously, Dave has held a range of positions at some of the top gaming studios in the world including Vice President of Production for Capcom Mobile, executive producer at Zynga, senior production roles at Electronic Arts, and Business Development Manager for Xbox. He has worked on a wide range of international hit franchises such as Need For Speed, SSX, Street Fighter, The Smurfs, ... With Friends, ranging from some of the highest Metacritic rated games through to the most played franchises in the world, on everything from handheld consoles through to bleeding edge VR and AR rides for some of the largest theme parks in the world.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Older than the video game industry itself, Alan has delivered some of the most successful game titles of all time. He was CTO at Electronic Arts, where he helped develop flagship titles like FIFA Soccer, NHL Hockey, and NBA Live. He founded Digido Interactive, a company that encouraged physical activity through mobile virtual play and co-founded FuelPowered which delivered a mobile middleware multiplayer solution to hundreds of millions of users and was acquired by Animoca. Outside of games Alan has spent time on SaaS solutions as CTO and Head of Product at Vision Critical and in his spare time coaches leaders and entrepreneurs. Alan believes games and play have the potential to initiate positive change in our world.

DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY

Ernest is an experienced system architect with over 30 years of creating mission-critical utility services. Ernest currently oversees technology for Blueline Studios. Prior to BlueLine, he has delivered messaging infrastructure for the military at Infonet, HA system for the cellular network equipment at Motorola, virtual network services at Inkra for the cloud industry and online game services for 20+ titles at Electronic Arts.

SENIOR STUDIO CREATIVE DIRECTOR

In his 13 years in the Games industry, Rimmy is an experienced Creative Director and game designer with proven expertise in systems, economy, and monetization. At Blueline, Rimmy is responsible for championing design across all products. Previously, Rimmy was Managing Director of Hyper Hippo Entertainment where he was responsible for Game Portfolio, Game Division development strategy, and team development. Prior to Hyper Hippo, he was a Product Owner at Electronic Arts of one of several strike teams for Star Wars: Rise To Power, where he managed a team of engineers and artists and specialized in systems design and was a Retention Specialist and Social Game Designer at Gameloft.

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Matt has spent the last 10 years focusing on mobile development in Unity, working as a technical owner and technical director on games as large as MMOs and as small as single interaction idle games. While Matt has worked in numerous different functions as an engineer, he has always taken particular enjoyment from building tools and systems to streamline problems and make people's lives easier. Matt is currently technical director at BlueLine Studios.

UI/UX LEAD

Abhishek started off as an art director at a magazine and eventually helped build SEA's first E-sports platform. He has worked on large scale F2P casual games contributing to the player experience, setting up and leading design teams and guiding research functions as well as shipping consumer apps to market. Over the past 10 years having worked in different functions for both mid and small scale teams which has helped him develop his core skills in design and visualization of game systems, he also has a keen interest in designing positive game systems and setting up player research frameworks to better understand how games can be used to have a positive effect on the players. Abhishek is currently contributing on the UI/UX front at BlueLine Studios

CO-FOUNDER, BOARD DIRECTOR

Dean is a results-driven leader with nearly two decades of experience managing large-scale business strategies within the digital media and interactive entertainment industry. Having spent 17 years at Electronic Arts, six of which he acted as a VP & General Manager at EA Studios, he was responsible for shipping over 25 ‘AAA’ titles, leading the business and production operations for top-tier product lines including NHL, NBA, UFC, and PvZ Garden Warfare.

BOARD DIRECTOR, CEO CARAVAN

Pauline Moller is a senior executive in the digital media and interactive entertainment industry with extensive experience leading large-scale business strategies, driving organizational change, and building high performance teams. Currently, she is CEO of Caravan, a startup studio that co-founds companies in partnership with iconic artists and athletes and Creative Artists Agency. Prior to Caravan, Pauline has held a number of leadership roles including: co-founder of start-up companies; Senior Vice President at Zynga, a social gaming company, where she led business and production operations; Senior Vice President & COO at EA SPORTS; and Senior Vice President & General Manager for EA’s large-scale, game development studio, as well as Vice President R&D of an email messaging company.

BOARD DIRECTOR, HEAD OF CONSUMER INVESTMENTS CAA

As Head of Consumer Investments at CAA, Michael Blank leads a cross-departmental team of agents and executives, guiding CAA’s involvement in Connect Ventures, an investment partnership with New Enterprise Associates (NEA). In his prior role as CAA’s Head of Mobile, Blank guided the agency’s mobile initiatives, primarily focused on sourcing, managing, and negotiating opportunities for clients in television, film, fashion, lifestyle, music, and sports, among other areas.