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Richard Yanowitch is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a proven track-record transforming early-stage companies into high-growth market leaders, creating millions of customers, billions of dollars in revenue, and multi-billions of dollars in sustained shareholder value. Since September 2006, he has served as venture partner for Accel Partners, with a particular focus on digital media. He currently serves as an independent director on the boards of video ad network, Yume, and global mobile social network, mig33. Prior to Accel, Richard served as Vice Chairman of the NDS Group, a $600 million market leader in digital media technologies, and as Senior Consultant to the News Corporation. For nearly five years, he served as Executive Vice President for internet services provider VeriSign, where his team built numerous high-growth businesses and led its international expansion, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues. 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Dennis Fong
Dennis Fong As CEO of Raptr, Dennis oversees the company’s day-to-day operations and directs the evolution and ever-expanding features and functionality of Raptr and Plays.tv. Known as “Thresh” in gaming circles, Dennis was crowned the world champion of Doom, Doom 2, Quake and Quake 2, and was called “the Michael Jordan of video games” by the Wall Street Journal before turning 23. Using the proceeds from his professional gaming dominance (including a Ferrari awarded to him by id Software co-founder John Carmack), Dennis founded his first successful startup, gamers.com. He later co-founded Xfire (which was acquired in 2006 by Viacom subsidiary MTV Networks for more than $100 million in cash) and Lithium, a leading Social CRM platform provider used by numerous Fortune 100 companies and still privately held. In 2007 Dennis founded Raptr out of his love of PC gaming and his frustration with it not being as simple and easy to use as it could be. In 2015, Raptr launched Plays.tv as an easy, fun way for gamers to share their favorite in-game moments.Dennis’s favorite games include League of Legends, Clash of Clans, and Scramble With Friends.
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Lyle Fong
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