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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the eSports space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jesse Zhang
CEO and Founder of Lowkey
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About Camelot.ai, Lowkey, Lowkey: The home for watching and creating short gaming videos
Ari Evans
Founder & CEO of Maestro Interactive Inc
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About Maestro Interactive Inc: Maestro provides a white label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences.
Andrew Paradise
CEO & Founder of Skillz
Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Double Picture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
JT Nguyen
CEO of Gameflip
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About AdvanceClub, Gameflip: Gameflip is creating the commerce engine for the gaming Metaverse
Rosen Sharma
CEO of Game.tv
Rosen Sharma was most recently SVP & CTO at Intel. He has co-founded several successful consumer and enterprise companies including GreenBorder (acquired by Google), VxTreme (acquired by Microsoft), Ensim, Teros (acquired by Citrix), and Teneros. He currently serves on the board of Cloud.com (recently acquired by Citrix) and as an advisor to Atlantis Computing. He held several positions at McAfee, including CTO of Endpoint Business Unit ($1B USD in Revenue) and CTO of Virtualization. He arrived at McAfee via the acquisition of Solidcore Systems in June 2009. Rosen was the founding CEO of Solidcore from 2003 to 2008. Rosen’s roots are in technology. He graduated from IIT Delhi with a Gold Medal and a Ph.D. from Cornell University/Stanford. He briefly served on the faculty at Cornell.
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About BlueStacks, Cloud.com, Game.tv: Game.tv is a mobile eSports platform that automates tournaments in new and existing communities.
Edward Lerner
CEO of Hearo.Live – Multiplayer TV
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About Hearo.Live – Multiplayer TV: Hearo is Multiplayer TV. Turn your passive stream into a buzzing, live, social event.
Emily Ward
CEO & President of Alcacruz Inc.
CEO and board chair for AlcaCruz, a video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz’s SuperStream which live streams 360 VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming). Previously, she was Vice President & Worldwide Chief Technology Counsel at eBay and PayPal for many years. Legal tech leader for eBay’s and PayPal’s technologies, products and companies. Legal tech lead on eBay’s M&A teams that assessed and bought GSI ($2.4B), Bill Me Later ($1.2B), Braintree ($800M), and many other companies, as well as divested Skype. Split the IP portfolios for eBay and PayPal during PayPal’s spin-off from eBay. Testified on patent reform before Congressional committee. Successfully resolved bet-the-company lawsuits, including Merc Exchange v. eBay (previous unanimous US Supreme Court decision for eBay).
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About Alcacruz Inc.: The highest quality, lowest bandwidth, live multi-video streaming solutions on the market.
