Experience

Founder
[ludis]
08/2020- Present

- Founded lud.is, a fractional CXO and advisory company
- CPO to Phoenix Labs
- CXO to N3TWORK Studios

- Advisor to Mavan Games

 

Chief Operating Officer
Forte - ZTO
01/2022 - 03/2024

- Joined through the Acquisition of N3TWORK by Forte.
- Y1 - Responsible for the second iteration of the Forte Platform product & the Reference customers
- Y2 - Focused on creating a web3 gaming 'Zero to One' through investment,

- Primary focus the purchase and resulting management of Phoenix Labs and their games portfolio:

• Dauntless

• Fae Farm

• Other unannounced games

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Chief Operating Officer
N3TWORK
07/2017 - 01/2022

- Shifted to COO & owned Product, Operations, Marketing & Culture
- Legendary Executive Producer for 2 years

- Responsible for the N3TWORK games portfolio:

• Legendary: Game of Heroes

• Tetris

• Funko Pop

• Other unannounced projects

- Grew revenue from $6m in to $44m in 2017 and $105m in 2018
- Raised $38.9m from KCPB Growth fund, Floodgate & others in 2017 in partnership with the CEO
- Created & scaled the NSP to $2m+ a month of revenue - N3TWORKs 3rd party publishing business
- Pioneered a subscription based gaming revenue model resulting in over $12m in Annual Revenue and 150,000 unique subscribers

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Chief Marketing Officer
N3TWORK
02/2016 - 07/2017
 

- Created & scaled the organization that spent $50m/year in Marketing dollars in alone
- Pioneered a new Community success program based on LTV resulting in an increase of Payer Retention of +10% and CSAT of +15%

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VP - Acquisition, Retention, Monetization
NaturalMotion & Zynga
09/2013 - 02/2016

- Owned & scaled revenue and installs by optimizing LTV to CPI equation, resulting in the acquisition by Zynga

- Operated across the player journey, form First contact to purchase and beyond. 

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Early Hire
Machine Zone
2011 - 2013

- Established the business of Mobile F2P (OG)
- Established mobile performance marketing (1st $1m+ daily campaign on FB)