Chief Executive Officer, Sim Ops Studios
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder and CEO at Wild Pockets
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Carnegie Mellon University
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Shanna Tellerman’s Summary
Shanna Tellerman, founder and CEO of Wild Pockets, is singularly focused on breaking down barriers in the game industry from every angle. Wild Pockets is a free, crowd-sourced 3D game platform for the browser with an integrated community for game developers. Wild Pockets has already attracted well-known game developers building 3D, web-based games and generating thousands of shared game assets. After earning her Masters degree in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon, Shanna was hired by the University to investigate commercialization opportunities for the technology that would eventually become Wild Pockets. She is a visionary and brings a breadth of experience from product manager and designer, to her current role as CEO. Previously Shanna worked for Electronic Arts on The Sims 2, a sequel to the best-selling PC game ever. She also researched and co-authored the paper titled “Emergent Stories in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Using Improvisational Techniques to Design for Emotional Impact,” (International Conference on Entertainment Computing, 2004). Shanna is a frequent speaker at gaming conferences and a thought leader on women in technology.
