Mark Friedler
Mark Friedler
Mark Friedler is a technology entrepreneur, blockchain consultant, advisor, and investor residing in San Francisco, California. He is currently the CEO of the blockchain advisory firm, Gigex. He has advised cryptocurrency projects including Swarm Fund, Cappasity, and Vertex Capital. Friedler is also well known for founding GameDaily, which was acquired by AOL / Time Warner and V-Cast, which was acquired by Verizon. [undefined] [3][8]
Education
Mark Friedler is a graduate of Hamilton College, where he majored in political science and government. He also graduated from The New School with a certification in business law. [undefined]
Career
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Mark Friedler is currently the CEO of Gigex, a blockchain advisory firm. He is a trusted advisor to cryptocurrency projects including Vertex Capital, Cashbet, Swarm Fund, Net Zero Enterprises, Pryze, Bob's Repair, and Cappasity. [undefined] [3] In 2016, Friedler served as the interim President of iCars. He l ed and grew product, marketing, sales and operations teams of their on-demand ride sharing app platform for business travelers and enterprise customers. They launched in San Francisco Bay Area and six other markets. [undefined]
From 2014 to 2016, Friedler was the Senior Director at Oracle Corporation. At Oracele, he led data cloud DaaS services, Eloqua, Responsys, BlueKai, Compendium, Maxymizer, Datalogix in marketing cloud and data cloud divisions. [undefined]
From 2008-2015, Friedler was the Chief Business Officer at Worlds and Games LLC, a consulting firm specializing in strategic revenue and business development, go-to-market strategy, marketing and monetization services for B2B SaaS /PaaS services, mobile apps, games, payments, retail, E-commerce, big data and ad tech. He also held interim leadership roles as Vice President of Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Interim President. He held consulting, board and advisory roles at high-growth companies including Admonsters, Bleacher League, ChoiceLunch, Cubeyou srl, Cut the Rope, Evercam.io, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, FunMobility, Gaikai, iCars.cc, The Home Depot, Digital / RedBeacon, Investment House, Mobywrap, Noviflow, OneSpear Mobile, Online401k, Openbucks, OpenX, Playgearz, Starstable, SuperRewards, US Market Access Center, Witsbits.
From 2012-2015, Friedler was a Strategic Advisor at the US Market Access Center to startup CEOs of enterprise SaaS, ad tech, mobile app and fintech companies driving innovation, go to market business strategy, revenue growth, marketing, strategic partnerships. He consulted and coached companies from Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Poland, Singapore and Sweden to develop a US market entry and growth strategy. Friedler collaborated with USMAC leadership, other mentors, foreign growth and innovation offices, international investment funds, CEOs and boards. He also delivered 2017 sales leadership class to 10 of Canada's fastest Scale Up companies at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics together with Guy Kawasaki and others. Two of his companies placed first in venture capital pitch competitions. [undefined] Frielder was the VP of Sales and Marketing at Cubeyou s.r.l from 2013-2014. He built and launched their US marketing and sales go to market strategy. He also closed major consumer and B2B clients, agencies and strategic partners. Cubeyou is a Facebook PMD social data market platform and providing companies indepth social knowledge to increase brand awareness, client engagement and conversions from their network of 350 million user profiles from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter platforms. [undefined]
Friedler was a Marketing and Business Development Consultant at Wistbits from 2012-2014.
He worked with the CEO and board to develop marketing, sales and business strategy for cloud management SaaS product.
Friedler collaborated with the investor team and drove focus on product growth to key market verticals.
He identified and recruited several early clients, angels and venture investors.
From 2010-2014, Friedler was a business, strategy, product and revenue adviser and board member for One Spear Entertainment, an IOS and Android publisher of celebrity mobile games for Shaquille O'Neal, Jet Li and others. He worked with CEO and board to create new strategic partner opportunities and a go to market strategy. [undefined]
In 2013, Friedler worked as an Advisor to the CEO of Tequila Mobile, a mobile games developer with studio operations and proprietary user acquisition and monetization platform.
He secured strategic business development, distribution and partnership deals with international publishers and monetization platforms.
From 2012-2013, Friedler was the Vice President of Business Development at SuperRewards and Playerize after SupeRewards was acquired. He was responsible for key client monetization, sales, business development, partner relations, and games monetization. He also drove revenue and the adoption of 3 product lines - direct payment, mobile app installs and virtual currency offers. [undefined] In 2012, Friedler was the Chief Strategy Officer and a Business Advisor at AdMonsters, a global leader in online advertising strategic monetization, media operations, technology, RTB, DSPs, platforms and insight on the future of digital media and advertising through content on web, mobile, conferences, research and consulting. [undefined] From 2010-2011, Friedler was the Co-founder and Publisher of IndustryGamers which was acquired by Eurogamer. He m anaged all business operations, marketing and revenue of B2B games and entertainment website and newsletter startup. Friedler also closed key strategic sponsorship and ad deals. He also managed their content roadmap, distribution and partnerships. [undefined]
In 1995, Friedler founded Gigex, a free game demo downloads site.
In 2003, he lead the company's pivot into becoming GameDaily, media platform for video game related content.
He g rew the monthly traffic of the site to 2.5 million monthly unique visitors.
The company was acquired by AOL in 2006. [undefined] In 1997, Friedler founded Reach Networks, the first Internet push delivery business. The business pioneered delivery of large online and wireless media and entertainment files. VCast clients included Bertelsmann, CMP, The New York Times, and Time Warner. In 1999, the company was acquired by Verizon.
From 1992-1994, Friedler was a Managing Director of the Sweden Office at Phillips - Teleworld AB, an interactive entertainment and TV services company operating in 14 European countries. He was previously the Managing Director of Teleworld Holding BV in the Netherlands. In 1989, Friedler founded, Mark's Cookies the first American cookie and muffin bakery chain operating in Stockholm and two other Swedish cities. He grew the business to multi store mall chain and imported private-label product mixes for the wholesale market. He sold the business to a restaurant chain in 1992. [undefined]