Dan Scherlis

Current

Advisor at Glymetrix
Advisor at Floodgate Entertainment

Past

CEO at Etherplay Mobile Media
Director, Business Dev't, Mobile Games at Comverse
CEO & Executive Producer at Turbine Entertainment

Director, Content Planning at AT&T New Media Services/Interchange Online Network
Producer & Head of Publishing at Papyrus Design Group
Research Associate at Harvard Business School

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Education

Harvard Business School
Harvard University

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500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

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Dan Scherlis’s Summary

Dan Scherlis has 15 years of experience creating online communities and videogames. As CEO of Turbine he produced the successful massively-multiplayer game (MMO) Asheron’s Call. Dan then directed content and partnerships for a games initiative within mobile giant Comverse. His background includes game publishing (Papyrus), online services (Ziff/ATT Interchange), and cable TV (HBO). Dan holds AB, AM (Linguistics), and MBA degrees from Harvard.

Dan advises online-community and game ventures. He is a frequent speaker and conference-moderator at both games-industry and entrepreneurial-business events.

Dan Scherlis’s Specialties:

Interactive entertainment & online worlds.
Strategic partnership & creative direction.
Executive production (integrating financial, tech, and creative constraints)

Dan Scherlis’s Experience

Advisor

Glymetrix

(Computer Games industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Glymetrix supports diabetes management, with interactive software that uses game experiences for patient rewards and incentives.
Advisor

Floodgate Entertainment

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

Floodgate is an independent videogame developer, with experience in console, web, mobile, and smartphone platforms, and specialty in social games and new media.
CEO

Etherplay Mobile Media

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

May 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 11 months)

Mobile-game development and production, focused on premium multiplayer games.
Director, Business Dev't, Mobile Games

Comverse

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CMVT; Telecommunications industry)

December 2000 — September 2002 (1 year 10 months)

Content strategy & partnerships for mobile-games service. Supported operator-sales efforts.
CEO & Executive Producer

Turbine Entertainment

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

May 1995 — September 2000 (5 years 5 months)

Developers of massively multiplayer online games, including ASHERON'S CALL.
Director, Content Planning

AT&T New Media Services/Interchange Online Network

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

May 1994 — May 1995 (1 year 1 month)

The first "Internet Guy" for this proprietary commercial online service. Developed new content, for release via the service and the web.
Producer & Head of Publishing

Papyrus Design Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Proposed and led a new game-publishing venture for this contract software developer. Partnered with distributors, manufacturers, and licensors, and produced the award-winning "IndyCar Racing."
Research Associate

Harvard Business School

(Online Media industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year )