Saurin Shah

Current

• Director, Social Games at Digital Chocolate

Past

• Director, Product Management at Digital Chocolate
• Senior Product Manager at Gaia Interactive
• Senior Product Manager at PlayFirst

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• Houston Baptist University
• Houston Baptist University

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Industry

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Saurin Shah’s Summary

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Saurin Shah is Director of Social Games at Digital Chocolate, a leading publisher of mobile games and one the most downloaded and top-revenue producing publishers on the iPhone. He manages the social games studio and is responsible for developing social games for iPhone, Facebook and other emerging platforms; developing a patent-protected virtual goods platform; creating a CRM platform for the social games and iPhone; and providing social games, product management, virtual economies/monetization expertise throughout the company.

He also held a Director of Product Management position at Digital Chocolate and helped lead the company’s entry into the iPhone, which includes several number one titles and 35+ million app downloads in roughly half-a-year. Prior to Digital Chocolate, he held product management positions at Gaia Online and PlayFirst, where he worked with emerging business models and virtual economies and goods. In the mid-90s, Saurin also founded Trax In Space, an earlier pioneer in digital music that provided paid and free downloads of music for indie musicians, which he grew to several million monthly users. He received an MBA from University of Texas at Austin.

Saurin Shah’s Specialties:

iPhone, social games, product management, virtual worlds, virtual economies, virtual goods, social networks / Facebook, casual games, digital media, music, start-ups, product strategy

Additional Information

Saurin Shah’s Groups:

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), The Asia Society, Young Jains of America (YJA), Mensa, ISC2 (as a CISSP), Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO)

•    Entrepreneur Society
•    Innovation Experts Network

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