Tommy Wu

Current

• CEO at Tribal Crossing, Inc
• Co-Founder at ThinkWise

Past

• Private Equity Associate at Elevation Partners
• Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Education

• UC Berkeley

Connections

490 connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Tommy Wu’s Summary

Gamer --> engineer --> investment banker --> private equity investor --> game designer. I'm particularly interested in combining game elements with social media applications. Always looking to add more people to the team who are passionate about creating dynamic social situations through games.

Tommy Wu’s Specialties:

- Analysis of large scale companies and intellectual property
- Domain expertise in digital and traditional media
- Eye for decomposing games to their building blocks and rebuilding proven elements with new ideas
- High tolerance for pain

Tommy Wu’s Experience

• CEO

  Tribal Crossing, Inc

  (Entertainment industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Yet another social gaming startup in stealth mode

• Co-Founder

  ThinkWise

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Non-profit focused on connecting young professionals with underprivileged but talented high school students. Students learn about relevant industry issues through roundtables, case studies and debates with their peers and mentors. In doing so, they begin developing their first professional network, forming more comprehensive perspectives on the world, and laying the groundwork for a meaningful college application.
  
  Previously served as President for the inaugural year.

• Private Equity Associate

  Elevation Partners

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 2006 — June 2008 (2 years )

  Elevation Partners is a newly formed $2B private equity firm that makes large-scale investments in media, entertainment, and consumer-related businesses, with a focus on investing in intellectual property and content oriented businesses.
  
  Worked closely with BioWare & Pandemic, a large scale game developer in Elevation's portfolio, which was ultimately purchased by Electronic Arts as their largest acquisition to date
  
  Elevation was created by six professionals:
  
  Bono: lead singer and co-founder of U2
  Fred Anderson: the former EVP and CFO of Apple
  Bret Pearlman: former Senior MD of Blackstone
  Marc Bodnick: founding principal of Silver Lake
  John Riccitiello: former President of Electronic Arts
  Roger McNamee: co-founder of Silver Lake & Integral Capital

• Investment Banking Analyst

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)

  July 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 1 month)

  Investment banking experience in Morgan Stanley's Financial Sponsor Group, providing M&A advice and debt financing to large financial sponsors on the West Coast.
  
  Evaluated potential acquisitions for MSREF (Morgan Stanley's Real Estate Funds), a collection of opportunity funds that has raised $8Bn of equity and has $33Bn in assets under management.

Tommy Wu’s Education

• UC Berkeley

  B.S. , Major: Industrial Engineering & Operations Research; Minor: Business Administration , August 1999 — May 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu, The Movement

Additional Information

Tommy Wu’s Interests:

Video games, basketball, rock climbing, scuba diving, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Tommy Wu’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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