Social Gaming Summit 2010

ATUL BAGGA is currently the Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Gaming industry at ThinkEquity. He has regularly presented at a number of gaming industry conferences and is widely quoted and interviewed on TV and print media such as Economist, New York Times, Time, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, and USA Today. Previously, Atul worked as Equity Research Analyst with Smith New Court (now Merrill Lynch.) Atul received his MBA from Haas School of Business at University of Berkeley, Masters in Management from University of Bombay and Bachelors in Engineering from National Institute of Technology in India. @atulbagga

The CEO of myYearbook

GEOFF COOK is now the CEO of myYearbook, his third multi-million dollar Internet enterprise, all grown from zero traffic and zero revenue to significant market-leading properties. In 1997, at age 19, Geoff founded EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com from a Harvard dorm room. Each property dominated their respective niches: admissions essay and resume writing help. He then sold his companies to The Thomson Corporation where he led the Consumer Market Group for a Thomson Learning division, departing Thomson in 2005. Geoff has been featured in Wired, Rolling Stone, ABC News, CNBC, and USA Today. In 2005, Geoff became the CEO of myYearbook, joining forces with his siblings. Geoff was instrumental in raising $20+ million in angel financing, venture capital, and venture debt to build the young company into the largest US social media site. Geoff has an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and lives in New Jersey with his wife Kerri and daughters Madeline and Elyse.@geoffcook

WILSON KRIEGEL is currently the CRO of OMGPOP. Kriegel is responsible for Business Development, Advertising, Marketing and Web Product Monetization. Before joining OMGPOP, Wilson was VP of Marketing, Business Development & Advertising Sales for Outspark. Kriegel served as Executive VP & General Manager at Curse Inc., now the leading online 2.0 MMO game portal focused on online subscription games, which now reaches over 10 Million unique a month. Wilson was also a part of the founding team of IGA Worldwide in the U.S. where he served as VP Business Development, leading the publisher, developer integration of IGA's services, across platforms (PC, Mobile and Console). Kriegel started his career in the gaming industry by launching GameTimeNation, the first interactive entertainment retail services company. Prior this, he was an early employee at a gas & electricity consumer company, taken public and worked as a financial analyst on wall street. @omgpop

PAUL LAFONTAINE is charged with driving Playdom's growth through international expansion and business diversification, a role that's perfect for him given his twenty-plus years of experience making big things happen. Most recently, Paul led international market development at eSolar, an innovative utility-scale energy company. Before taking on the world's energy challenge, Paul drove strategic growth for Ticketmaster from the UK and Los Angeles, and served as CEO of a wireless technology startup called Antiron. Paul has a BS in engineering from West Point and may or may not have worked in military intelligence from 1986 to 1991. Perhaps that's why he's affectionately called "The Cleaner" at Playdom-or his fastidiously tended plots in Lil Farm Life may inspire the name.@playdom

NICHOLAS LOVELL writes GAMESbrief, a blog on the business of games. A former investment banker and entrepreneur, Nicholas now helps investors, developers, publishers and media business make money from games. Recent clients include Atari, Channel 4, Firefly and Rebellion. He is the author of How to Publish a Game and teaches masterclasses on making money from social games. @nicholaslovell

MATTIAS MIKSCHE is the CEO and co-founder of Stardoll, an international fashion & entertainment community for teen and tween girls that reaches over 15 million unique users per month, mostly girls between the ages of 11 and 17. At Stardoll you can create your own MeDoll and dress it up in a wide selection of fashions. Stardoll is one of the few places on the Internet developed with an emphasis on girls' self-expression through fantasy and fashion play. Prior to Stardoll, Mattias founded online DVD rental company Boxman and merged it with UK based Lovefilm in 2005 to form Europe's largest DVD rental & movie download company. From 1998 to 2002, Mattias was one of the original European founders of E*TRADE Financial, leaving as the CEO of E*TRADE Germany. Mattias holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and attended The Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Mattias also serves on the boards of Swedish companies Avanza (publ), Eniro (publ) and Dustin.@mattiasmiksche

Pioneer in social gaming

BRET TERRILL is a pioneer in social gaming, founding one of the first social gaming companies in early 2007 with a focus on real-time multiplayer games. It failed. He took those lessons and shared them via a blog and became the first social gaming industry analyst. He took that expertise to Zynga, joining in 2008 as Director of Business Development and then transitioning to Senior Director of Corporate Development. He now consults for companies applying social game mechanics to non-gaming verticals.

PETER WEXLER is TrialPay's Director of Strategic Partnerships, where he is responsible for all worldwide advertising partnership initiatives. Peter comes to TrialPay from GetConnected, Inc. where he held Senior Business Development and Account Management positions focused on growing industry adoption of GetConnected's digital services platform that enabled merchants to seamlessly sell high speed Internet, VoIP, Satellite, Wireless and Cable services through their various sales channels. Earlier in his career, Peter held senior leadership positions with both Grant Thornton LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP specializing in network security implementation and consulting, as well as financial data modeling solutions. Peter holds an MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from Babson and BS from The University of Delaware. @TrialPay