Adeo Ressi - STANDARDS

our take:
Adeo is our fearless standards leader - keeping us all working together to keep this industry moving forward.

Delivered at Casual Connect Seattle, 17 & 18 July 2007

Adeo is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Game Trust, Inc. and Mr. Ressi continues to serve as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee and Director of the X PRIZE Foundation, a non-profit chartered to inspire human achievements by awarding prizes for reaching milestones. Adeo is a visionary, pioneering the early adoption of the World Wide Web, the genesis of private space exploration, and the mass market growth of casual games. Mr. Ressis affable and honest business style has helped him to build and grow companies from 1 to 1,000 employees, overseeing operations in five time zones. In 1994, he was a founder of Total New York, Inc., one of the first advertiser-supported web media and entertainment properties. The property was later sold to AOL and Tribune Media, becoming AOL Digital Cities. In 1995, he founded methodfive, inc., a strategic web development firm focused on the media and entertainment industry. methodfive developed strategies and systems for global media companies such as The New York Times, The BBC, NewsCorp, The Economist, Scripps and Fox Networks. As CEO, he secured a $2 million investment from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the first investment of its kind from a "Big 5" firm, and then sold the company to Xceed for $88 million in 2000 with a team of over 250 employees. From February to September 2000, he was Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Xceed, Inc., the NASDAQ-listed web architecture and design firm with over 1,000 employees. At Xceed, he oversaw the filing of a secondary stock offering, organized complimentary service offerings across 13 offices worldwide and developed the first intra-company financial projections. Most recently, Mr. Ressi was a founding partner and Executive Committee member of Sophos Partners, a venture consulting and turnaround firm with offices in New York, Boston, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. Mr. Ressi attended Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1994. He goes by Adeo across the Game Trust network.

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HOME \| LECTURES & ARTICLES \| INDUSTRY ANALYSIS \| STANDARDS audio part one (82 MB) audio part two (58 MB) our take: Adeo is our fearless standards leader - keeping us all working together to keep this industry moving forward. Delivered at Casual Connect Seattle, 17 & 18 July 2007 DOWNLOAD PART ONE DOWNLOAD PART TWO Adeo Ressi (email) Adeo is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Game Trust, Inc. and Mr. Ressi continues to serve as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee and Director of the X PRIZE Foundation, a non-profit chartered to inspire human achievements by awarding prizes for reaching milestones. Adeo is a visionary, pioneering the early adoption of the World Wide Web, the genesis of private space exploration, and the mass market growth of casual games. Mr. Ressis affable and honest business style has helped him to build and grow companies from 1 to 1,000 employees, overseeing operations in five time zones. In 1994, he was a founder of Total New York, Inc., one of the first advertiser-supported web media and entertainment properties. The property was later sold to AOL and Tribune Media, becoming AOL Digital Cities. In 1995, he founded methodfive, inc., a strategic web development firm focused on the media and entertainment industry. methodfive developed strategies and systems for global media companies such as The New York Times, The BBC, NewsCorp, The Economist, Scripps and Fox Networks. As CEO, he secured a $2 million investment from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the first investment of its kind from a "Big 5" firm, and then sold the company to Xceed for $88 million in 2000 with a team of over 250 employees. From February to September 2000, he was Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Xceed, Inc., the NASDAQ-listed web architecture and design firm with over 1,000 employees. At Xceed, he oversaw the filing of a secondary stock offering, organized complimentary service offerings across 13 offices worldwide and developed the first intra-company financial projections. Most recently, Mr. Ressi was a founding partner and Executive Committee member of Sophos Partners, a venture consulting and turnaround firm with offices in New York, Boston, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. Mr. Ressi attended Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1994. He goes by Adeo across the Game Trust network.