Board & Advisors

Sebastien de Halleux was the COO and Co-Founder of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social game companies which disrupted the video game industry by changing how millions of people play together. Playfish was acquired by video game giant Electronic Arts in November of 2009.

Prior to starting Playfish, Sebastien helped launch another startup, Macrospace, an early pioneer in mobile games (now Glu Mobile, which IPOed in 2007) and worked at other companies including Nokia and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Sebastien is an active angel investor and is involved in several non-profit projects which harness bright minds and technology to change the world for good. Sebastien holds a master's degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College and was a recipient of the 2010 TechFellow Award. He has resided in Brussels, Bangkok and London, and presently lives in San Francisco.

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Geoff was the founding CEO of microfinance accelerator Unitus, which he guided from startup to global leader in microfinance. He co-founded the Unitus Equity Fund, the first commercial microfinance venture fund.

Previously, Geoff co-founded a microfinance program in Mexico, was part of the startup team at Grameen Foundation and Grameen Investments. Before becoming a social entrepreneur, Geoff founded and sold a number of companies, including a translation agency, a commodities trading company and a biomedical engineering companies.

Geoff has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Entrepreneur of The Year by Ernst & Young, an Entrepreneurial Thought Leader by Stanford University, and one of Seattle’s “40 under 40” by the Puget Sound Business Journal. He earned degrees from Brigham Young and Harvard universities.

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Kim was Vice President of Worldwide Customer Service, Global Supply Chain, and Worldwide Discovery at Amazon. During her time at Amazon, Kim and her teams launched nine new business categories, four new countries, countless website features, and acquired three companies.

Being a technologist at heart, Kim also spent five years early in her career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and five years at Silicon Graphics. It was from the ashes of a failed startup that she landed at Amazon.com. Kim has a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

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Brett has been programming for over 16 years. He has written software for Chicago's public school system, developed mathematical modeling tools at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and was a software engineer on Amazon’s Personalization team. Brett co-founded Vittana and built the first versions of the Vittana.org website.

Having grown up in inner-city Chicago, Brett is incredibly passionate about giving other young people the same opportunity to succeed that his mom and many other teachers worked so hard to provide him. Brett now works as a Senior Software Engineer at OPower. Brett has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Kushal, co-founder and CEO, also serves on the board.

His profile is available on the staff page.