Ben loves solving problems. Big Problems. He is trained as a scientist (M.A. from Cambridge) and has been plying his trade in internet and gaming companies on both sides of the pond. Ben saw the first dot bomb from the inside and has worked at Sony Europe (developer) and Ubisoft Vancouver (lead tools programmer.) On top of being a wonderful CTO at Compass Engine he’s also pretty vicious with a sword.
McElroy really likes games. A lot. He also likes the Internet. He used to work at EA and a number of design consulting shops before breathing life into Compass Engine.
Bernd Petak is an entrepreneur, advisor, leader, senior executive, consultant and change agent with a strong technical grounding and three decades of professional experience. He is currently a consultant providing M&A and change related services to technology-based clients. Bernd founded and exited MLI, a bootstrapped Vancouver-based developer and publisher of computer games for affinity groups. MLI produced Freeriders: North Shore Spirit, a fully 3D game targeted at the mountain bike community. In addition, Bernd was an equity partner in technology, strategy and operations at Deloitte where he spent several years in Silicon Valley. He has also acted as CEO for OA Solutions, a British Columbia-based technology service provider with clients throughout North America.
Jason Bailey is a dynamic leader and entrepreneur known for his great sense of humor. He’s been involved in website building and development since 1998. His engineering specialties include SEO, SEM, CPA, Affiliate Marketing, Web usability, Web analytics, eCommerce, PHP, mySQL, and scripting languages. He is a game enthusiast and strategist and consults with game developers on a daily basis to help take their games to the next level. In 2006, Jason founded KITN Media, a leading CPA affiliate network, which evolved into Super Rewards in December of 2007. In just eighteen short months, Jason grew Super Rewards to become the world’s largest online virtual currency monetization platform, leading to the company’s acquisition by Adknowledge in July 2009.
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As an experienced entrepreneur, Jeff is focused on pushing projects forward on behalf of the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society, which he enjoys greatly as they have such a direct and immediate impact on the Vancouver startup ecosystem.Jeff co-founded the River Styx Group, which grew bootstrapped over ten years into an online billing provider handling over $230-million in annual transactions.River Styx was sold in 2009, since which Jeff has completed an MBA at Queen’s University in Kingston, worked with the Vancouver Aquarium and Overinteractive Media, and joined the advisory boards of Compass Engine and Mobify.