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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…

Max has been in the gaming industry for over 10+ years. He started off as a Producer for Deck 13 in 2010, eventually becoming a Senior Producer working on titles like “Lords of the Fallen” and “The Surge”. His final years with the company he served as the Business Development Manager. He then moved to a bigger role with Crunching Koalas as the Head of Publishing. Max will support the internal portfolio companies at GTR which include over 50+ investments in 28 countries with their needs and growth to make more successful game businesses. He will also be leading the…

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…

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.

Global Top Round has today announced the hiring of Jacques Benchetrit as the company’s new Head of M&A.; Prior to joining Global Top Round, he served as M&A; Manager for Zordix, where he was responsible for sourcing and executing M&A; transactions for the firm where he tripled company EBITDA over 1.5 years. During this time, Jacques saw the need for advisory services in the video games industry that focused on deals less than $250 million, which is why he decided to join Global Top Round. Jacques started his career at HSBC’s investment banking division in London where he worked on…