Derrick has been a games and online entertainment executive for over 14 years. During his career he has led the development of over 200 digital entertainment projects. Over the course of the past 7 years he has been a key executive at the top online game websites - iWin, Uproar, Flipside, Virtual Vegas and GameHouse. Most recently he was General Manager of Mobile Games for RealNetworks, a business unit he founded. At RealNetworks Derrick negotiated long-term distribution agreements with Cingular, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, and Vodafone Global among others. Additionally, he was singularly responsible for negotiating the mobile rights to South Park, MTV Cribs, and The Apprentice. Derrick was a key executive at GameHouse which was acquired in 2004 by RealNetworks. GameHouse subsequently became Real's studio for Xbox, PC, Mobile and online game development. Mr. Morton received a BA, magna cum laude, from USC Film School and an MBA fro UCLA's Anderson School.

Doug was most recently founder of ThreePenny Software, a successful casual games studio for mobile and handheld devices. ThreePenny shipped more than 20 casual game titles. Dr. Pearson has more than 10 years experience as a professional software developer leading dozens of projects for organizations like Real Networks and the Department of Defense. These have included multi-million dollar efforts and high performance client-server software solutions similar to the requirements for FlowPlay. He received a distinguished achievement award and was nominated for a distinguished dissertation award for his Ph.D. thesis work in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 15 academic research papers and contributed to 2 patents. Artificial Intelligence is primarily the study of complex system design and Doug's specialized knowledge in this area is directly applicable to the challenges of building FlowPlay's virtual gaming platform. He combines expertise in casual game and complex system design with the proven ability to deliver software solutions on time and within budget. Doug has a first class honors B.Sc. from the University of St. Andrews and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Christian began his career in the Internet games industry in 1999 as the first product manager at iWin.com. At iWin he managed several key products helping the company scale to several million members prior to being acquired by the Uproar Network (later acquired in 2001 by Vivendi Universal for $140 million). At Vivendi Universal Christian served as Director of Product Development, signing the first RealArcade syndication deal and launching iWin's skill-based games platform. At Vivendi he also entered into some of the earliest downloadable games distribution agreements with Yahoo!, RealNetworks and MSN. After Vivendi Universal Christian worked in product management at WorldWinner and later Yahoo! Games. Christian is currently a Business Product Manager at Google. He has a BA, Cum Laude, in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Wanda Gregory has worked in the kids entertainment industry for the past 15 years. She started out in traditional media working at The Seattle Times where she created and launched their first freestanding publication for high school students called the Mirror. She then moved into interactive media first at Sierra Online as an associate producer on their edutainment titles and then as Senior Director of Online Media for both Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Inc toy and game properties. Later Wanda joined the Xbox Live team as group product manager for Xbox.com. Most recently Wanda was executive producer at Hidden City Games on Bella Sara—a horse-themed fantasy card game for young girls offering both an offline and virtual world environment. In her spare time she teaches classes on game design, online communities, virtual worlds and games for girls at the University of Washington where she is adjunct faculty to the computer science department.

Wanda is a graduate of the University of Washington where she received her BA in English Literature, MBA and MA with a focus on interactive media. She is an avid game player herself who has spent many hours online.

Michael is a seasoned leader with a proven track record of rapid growth, start-up, and turn-around management spanning nearly 25 years. As a successful Internet entrepreneur and investor he has helped launch more than a dozen companies. He has been in leadership roles in public and private companies, non-profit and public service organizations. Michael has managed teams as small as 5 people and organizations as large as 350 employees and has been an active public speaker for nearly 10 years. . Previous roles include President and CEO of Classmates.com and SVP Global Games Division of RealNetworks. Michael holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from the W.E. Simon School at University of Rochester and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He's been an angel investor in promising start-ups since the end of 2005. In addition to FlowPlay, his current portfolio encompasses over 30 companies including Buzzlogic, Cake Financial, Dogster, Meraki Networks, Mint, Saynow, Shopittome, Yapta, Yume Networks, Webs.com, Weebly and others.

Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific (including Japan). Aydin joined Google in 1999 as a Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, eventually closing deals with all of Google's strategic syndication partners in Asia including NTT, NEC (Biglobe), Fujitsu (Nifty), Rakuten (Infoseek) in Japan, Sina, Netease and Tencent in China, Korea Telecom, Empas, Dacom in Korea, iPrimus/AOL in Australia, Yam and Hi-net in Taiwan.

Aydin received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese and Turkish.

He is a benefactor to the University of Pennsylvania and UCSF. Aydin has been a Mentor to students in the Entrepreneurship class at Stanford University. He and his wife Sonia are members of The Director's Circle of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.