ROBIN ALTER

San Francisco, CA • 347-***-**** • acta69@r.postjobfree.com • www.linkedin.com/in/robinalter

ACCOMPLISHED EXECUTIVE WITH STRONG TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND

Innovator Change Agent Efficiency Driver Revenue Generator Results-driven, entrepreneurial executive with a proven track record of success in driving complex business globally in collaborative economy, technology, gaming, and education. Adept at leveraging management, operational, and technical expertise to help position and expand organizations. Strategic thinker who effectively designs action plans, defines products, builds industry partnerships, develops high-performing teams, and improves operations to scale. Demonstrated track record of actualizing market opportunities and focusing on details and technology to achieve business results to deliver on the company vision. Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills used to establish and cultivate long-term business relationships with all stakeholders. A R E A S O F S T R E N G T H

ü Strategic Planning & Analysis ü Product Management ü New Business Development ü Operations Management ü Process Improvement ü Corporate Development ü Team Leadership ü Training & Development ü Lateral Thinking P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Swapdom Inc., San Francisco, CA & Greece July 2014 – Present CEO

Manage day-to-day operations and investor relations of a leading sharing economy, which uses multi-party, trading algorithms to make bartering efficient across markets. Devise and implement restructuring plans and strategies for creating and opening markets. Accurately evaluate and measure the business by defining all management dashboards, analytics, and metrics. Lead acquisition discussions.

Accomplishments:

• Repositioned the company as a collaborative economy platform to enable 3rd-party white-labeled, bartering solutions.

• Seized a $4B market opportunity by designing and launching SwapGaming, a gaming, virtual-item trading platform.

• Implemented lean product management processes to improve product quality and open new product markets.

• Successfully designed new swapping solution in the subscription commerce industry and second-hand goods.

• Closed marketing deals, secured celebrity endorsements, and built a strong advisory board.

• Negotiated licensing deals with leading publishers in Latin America and Asia Pacific.

• Opened new opportunities in currency exchange and home swapping services. Self Employed, San Francisco, CA Oct 2013 – June 2015 Consultant/Advisor

Consulted various clients, including the mobile POS system provider Frogtek; Adayana, a leader in corporate learning, technology, and consulting; and Dual Reality Games, an award-winning virtual reality start-up on various aspects of their business, including operations and funding. Provided clients technical advice, including guidance in game design and building platforms. Accomplishments:

• Consulted Kaplan Inc., a leading online education company, in the areas of education and gaming.

• Advised GymCast, a video broadcast and streaming startup health clubs across the U.S. and Europe, in technology.

• Closed seed funding rounding with the leader in virtual reality products. IUnify.com, San Francisco, CA

Co-Founder

Oversee fund-raising efforts and product management processes of a neuroscience startup. Leads team of leading neuroscience experts in health and education applications that use proprietary machine learning algorithms to model brain-state based on biometric data.

Accomplishments:

• Two consumer products designed and being tested.

• Managing corporate partnership with wearable device providers. NativeX Inc., Minneapolis, MN June 2013 – Sept 2013 Senior Product Manager

Developed and executed an effective mobile product strategy for a leading advertising technology company focusing on game and app developers. Analyzed trends and markets and created segmentation models. Designed mobile monetization products and online self-service tools, as well as products for mobile ad units and placements, A/B testing, and data analytics. Accomplishments:

• Implemented lean product management processes to reduce waste and improve efficiency and service.

• Defined product enhancements in self-service, game analytics and monetization.

• Created strategies that resulted in increased revenue. Robin Alter, Resume Page 2

P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E C O N T I N U E D Kreeda Games India, Mumbai, India Jan 2005 – May 2012 CEO & Founder, Nov. 2010-May 2012

Directed the sales, marketing, and business development for a first-ever, venture-funded game publishing and development company in India. Delivered to global partners gaming services, including development and marketing. Managed all activities with the board of directors and investors. Built and trained high-performing product development, design, and sales teams. Designed social, mobile games to attract players and increase monetization and retention. Created multiple educational games for K-12 and vocational training.

Accomplishments:

• Successfully transitioned company from online game publishing into a 50-person game development studio.

• Ensured delivery for more than100 games and business applications across platforms.

• Served as game design Instructor at Dhirubhai Ambani International School.

• Founding member of IGDA Positive Impact Gaming special interest group. CTO & Founder, Jan 2005-Oct 2010

Established all online game operations, teams, processes, and infrastructure, including building sales, marketing, CRM, localization, development, infrastructure, and business operations teams, managing 75 employees. Formed data centers with services for gaming, micro-billing, social media marketing, data analytics, CRM, cybercafé management, ad serving, and systems management. Integrated production and localization processes between studios in China, Vietnam, Korea and India. Accomplishments:

• Successfully closed Series A funding of $5.5M.

• Licensed and localized games from around the world for the India market.

• Set up enterprise-level operations to ensure 24x7 availability of online games services.

• Worked with large game publishers to bring games and the best practices to India.

• Delivered DanceMela, the first fully-localized, Indian music and rhythm, massive-multiplayer online game. IBM Asia, Asia Pacific Region Sept 2001 – Dec 2004 Management Consultant, Contract

Led management consulting deals for IBM across Asia for media and telecom customers. Oversaw design systems and business models, hiring and managing teams of 10 data architects to create an enterprise content model to underpin all content systems, including web, SAP, and Amdocs. Wrote new business plans and guided financial modeling. Designed multi-channel publishing, streaming, and digital download systems. Constructed content creation and syndication solutions to manage music, video, gaming, and intellectual property rights. Worked directly with CEO/CXOs to get buy-in for new strategies. Managed distributed teams of 40 people across US, UK, Australia, China, and India. Accomplishments:

• Served as subject matter expert for content management and delivery solutions.

• Created technology and business transformation roadmaps for value-added services and online business.

• Spearheaded Reliance IPTV rollout deal for video, music, and games distributions for 150M homes (India 2004).

• Orchestrated Optus and SingTel deals for design of content systems (Singapore 2004).

• Directed the China Telecom Yellow-Pages consolidation deal to aggregate the content systems across 26 provinces

(Shanghai 2003).

• Actualized Da-Ai television deal to re-design TV production systems and processes (Taiwan 2002).

• Led Telstra deal to create Sensis, a new subsidiary of Telstra’s While Pages and Yellow Pages Divisions (Australia 2001). Additional Professional Experience:

Muze, New York, NY, Director of Professional Services, 1997-2001, Highlights: Headed engagements with Muze clients to build online solutions with music, books, and film; built a professional services team that generated over $3.2M in revenue in 1.5 years. IBM, New York, NY, Software Sales Manager, 1995-1997, Highlights: Led the software sales team in managing and establishing major accounts in the banking, finance, and securities industry; exceeded an individual quota of $50M and awarded the Golden Circle for achieving sales in top 5%.

IBM, New York, NY, Systems Engineer, 1989-1995, Highlights: Managed a team of engineers that designed, sold, and installed educational solutions for grades K-12 in Northeastern U.S., winning awards for project management, technical excellence, and performing in the top 10% of engineers and earning top marks in customer satisfaction; exceeded annual quotas of $25M yearly. E D U C A T I O N

Bachelor of Science, Information & Decision Systems, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1989

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