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Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- CEO at unannounced Digital Entertainment startup company
- Board of Directors at Frozen Codebase
- Past
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- Executive Producer at Radical Entertainment
- Senior Director at WildTangent
- Executive Producer at Dynamix / Sierra Online
- Producer at Mindscape
- Education
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- University of South Florida - College of Business Administration
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Jay Balakrishnan’s Summary
* "I've been in Video Games, before there was 'video' in 'video games'." :)
* 33 year proven track record in Microcomputer Software industry
* Shipped over 200 games, business & technical software products, generating $350,000,000+ in career revenues
* Industry pioneer & innovator: Infoworld Magazine, 1984 - “Jay Balakrishnan, founder of Hesware, could be called the ‘Wernher von Braun’ of educational software for home computers. The firm has managed to achieve lift-off into what is essentially the first mass market for ‘edutainment’ software."
* Negotiated & signed multi-million dollar deals with Fortune 500 companies including: Vivendi Universal Games, IBM, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, HP, Disney, Intel, Time Warner's TBS & TNT Cable Networks; and celebrities such as Paul McCartney (Beatles), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek’s Mr. Spock), Dr. Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur (Intent)
* Proven reputation for excellent, consistent results in leadership, profitability and on-time delivery of world class games
Jay Balakrishnan’s Specialties:
Game production, strategic planning, business development, contract negotiations, fostering creativity
Jay Balakrishnan’s Experience
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CEO
unannounced Digital Entertainment startup company
(Computer Games industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
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Board of Directors
Frozen Codebase
(Computer Games industry)
2006 — Present (3 years)
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Executive Producer
Radical Entertainment
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
June 2003 — 2006 (3 years)
* Head of Production (reported to CEO/President) at Radical Entertainment in Vancouver, one of the oldest & largest game studios in North America. Responsible for all games made at Radical. Supervised Production Department and its $34 Million budget, with 4 development teams and 205 people.
* Ran Radical’s “Executive Operations Committee”. As its Chairman, set Agenda driving all company operations, strategic initiatives & key decisions at Radical.
* With CEO & CFO, conceived, negotiated & implemented sale of Radical to Vivendi Universal Games in 2005.
* Directed Business Development in Asia, establishing outsourcing & Co-Development partnerships. Conducted "due diligence" for Vivendi Universal on acquisition candidates.
* Executive Producer on:
Scarface: The World is Yours; Prototype; The Simpsons: Hit and Run; The Incredible Hulk 2: Ultimate Destruction; Crash Bandicoot: Tag Team Racing; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI: Las Vegas & CSI: Miami) -
Senior Director
WildTangent
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
As Head of game studio, directed, produced and supervised all aspects of online games development. Helped drive strategy that saw WildTangent's WebDriver installed on 110+ million PC’s. Managed key strategic relationships with Sony, Disney, HP, Intel, Time Warner’s TBS & TNT Cable TV networks
Games - Men in Black 2: Crossfire; Sony Walkman’s Tony Hawk Pro Skater; Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” Pinball; TBS’s Invincible and TNT’s Witchblade. -
Executive Producer
Dynamix / Sierra Online
(Computer Games industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Headed up 50-person Simulation Games Division, reporting to CEO/President. Supervised $5 Million budget and generated $21 Million in revenues. Directed the conception, design & development of 10 world-class games.
Games: Red Baron 2; Aces of the Deep; A-10 2: Silent Thunder; Earth Siege 2; Cyberstorm -
Producer
Mindscape
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
January 1993 — May 1994 (1 year 5 months)
Directed conception, marketing, packaging & production of games on NES, SNES, PC & Mac.
Managed key strategic relationship with Nintendo, licensing their “Mario Brothers” characters for several edutainment games.
Games - Chessmaster, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Nintendo’s Mario is Missing
Jay Balakrishnan’s Education
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University of South Florida - College of Business Administration
BA , Finance, cum Laude. Minor in Computer Science
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Jay Balakrishnan’s Interests:
Hobbies - * Flying - have Private Pilot License with Instrument Rating, and 500 hours logged flight time. * Performing live music - been playing Tabla drums and North Indian Classical music for 12 years
Jay Balakrishnan’s Groups:
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Casual Games
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