Rick has vast experiences in growing new businesses set out for global expansion. He has over 14+ years of managerial experience in the field of corporate strategy, business development and operations covering a range of business areas in gaming publishing and monetization in addition to other online businesses from leading corporations such as Electronic Arts, Naver, Hangame and Samsung Electronics.

Rick has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He brings to GTR a solid foundation and understanding of the industry and is committed to help grow the GTR ecosystem.

Mark Venturelli is Founder and CEO of Rogue Snail.

One of the most well-known developer on the Brazilian industry, with 12 years of experience, Mark acted as game designer and producer on titles such as Relic Hunters Legend, Chroma Squad and Dungeonland.

Founder, CEO and Creative and Managing Director of Dream Harvest Games. Previously a Sound Designer, Composer, Game Designer working across AAA and Indie games.

Worked at OMUK, one of the UK's leading Dialogue production studios for the games Industry as well as working previously with their main competitor, Side (Now owned by PitStop Productions) on multiple AAA projects.

Also worked extensively with several other small indie game studios in the position of sound designer, composer, game designer and project manager/producer, often all at the same time. I've had the pleasure of working with some incredibly talented people on some really fun projects, some released and some that unfortunately never saw the light of day. I like to wear many hats and get involved in all aspects of the game development process.

Sang has two decades of experience in the Korean game and IT industry. Currently he is heading up the domestic and overseas operations at PlayDapp. Previously he was responsible for overseas business development at NCSOFT and KOCCA.

Oliver is founder of the game studio Hammer Labs and serves as organisor of the Indie Arena gamescom booth.

Danny is Founder and CEO at GTR. He has 10+ years experience in business strategy development from small/medium to industry-leading companies such as Samsung and NHN. Most recently, he has built his professional career as a venture capitalist participating in a 15 Million dollar game fund investing into early stage game startups at NHN Investment. He is also co-founder of Tab the Momentum, an internet/mobile startup accelerator in Korea which invested into over 20 startups and helped them grow substantially.

Now at GTR, Danny and his team are acting as angel investors, and consultants for startups - mixing up business and investment knowledge, providing skills and networks and establishing a robust ecosystem of gaming experts and business professionals from the gaming sector to help game studios and individual game developers to get to the next level. Danny truly believes that the GTR ecosystem can help game developers make creative and commercial games and to pursue sustainable futures.

Pontus “Zlapped” Mähler is a professional gamer and entrepreneur who has won multiple tournaments globally as well as receive multiple awards for his performances over the years. His main focus was always technicalities and how he could improve on a fundamental and mechanical level, which he then applied to all steps of his career.

With a move to Thailand the year of 2016 he shaped the next step of Thai & Foreign eSports placing top 3 in 4 tournaments in a short amount of time with no english speakers and then transitioning into the role as CEO of the organization in just under 3 months of playng for it.

At GTR, he provides valuable, professional opinion after playing GTR games, and promotes games with his influencers’ network