ADEO RESSI
CEO & Founder, GameTrust
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Adeo has extensive experience building media and entertainment companies, as well as developing complex systems on time and on budget. 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 for $88 million in 2000. 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, where 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.