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Management Team
Much of PixelPlay's core management team has been together for over
ten years and has built a substantial foundation of knowledge of the games
marketplace and the evolution of current digital distribution channels for
games and edutainment. The management team also has a high degree of consumer
related commercial experience and broad product development experience.
Management's expertise in service, content as well as technology, combined with
the Company's commercial deployment experience, allows PixelPlay to provide
superior services and advice to prospective and existing customers and partners
in their business critical areas such as games product strategy, increased take
rates, subscriber retention and ARPU maximization.
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Ron Chaimowitz (Chief Executive Officer)
Mr. Chaimowitz has been an entertainment and media entrepreneur for
more than 20 years. In 1999, as CEO of The Auction Channel, Mr. Chaimowitz
transformed the company from a UK based start-up to a worldwide provider of iTV
auction content and technology. He sold the company in 2001 to Cablevision.
Prior to that, Mr. Chaimowitz co-founded GT Interactive Software in 1993 and
built the company from profitable first-year sales of $10 million to $531
million in 1998. Games published under Mr. Chaimowitz include Doom, Quake, Duke
Nukem and Unreal. Over the five-year period Mr. Chaimowitz strategically
acquired 10 companies that effectively transformed the company from a
distribution-centered company to one that created and built its own content,
brands and intellectual properties on a global basis. Mr. Chaimowitz brought
the company public in 1995 and raised $140 million in one of the largest IPOs
of that year. Prior to his stepping down, GT had 650 employees and sales
offices in 14 countries. Mr. Chaimowitz also spent 13 years at CBS where he
launched three divisions in the music & broadcast Groups. He was awarded
"Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for the New York area in 1997 by Ernst &
Young and he has also been featured as one of "Silicon Valley's 100" by Silicon
Valley Magazine. Mr. Chaimowitz served as Vice Chairman of the Interactive
Digital Software Association for more than four years. He received his MBA
degree with Distinction from The Stern School at NYU Graduate School of
Business.
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Ramy Weitz (Founder and Executive Chairman)
Mr. Weitz has been a founder, creative director and managing
director of various companies in the fields of media production, information
packaging and distribution, interactive entertainment products and services and
community collaboration. He founded Pixel Animation (Acquired by CMG, 1997),
Pixel Multimedia (Acquired by Take Two, 2001), Broadband Studios (Acquired by
Gameplay PLC, 2001), RT-Set (Public company in Germany, 1998)as well as five
other companies in the fields of Simulation, Optical Networking and Team
Collaboration platforms.
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Jeff Braun (Co-Chairman)
Jeff Braun co-founded Pixel Technologies with Ramy Weitz. As
Co-Chairman, Mr. Braun assists Mr. Weitz and Mr. Chaimowitz in defining the
strategic direction for the company. Together with Will Wright, Mr. Braun
co-founded computer game publisher Maxis in 1987. Under Mr. Braun's leadership
as Chairman and CEO, Maxis grew famous with its flagship title, SimCity, and
soon became one of the pre-eminent publishers of entertainment software in the
world. Maxis' game "The Sims" is now the best-selling PC game of all-time and
the "Sim" branded games are the best selling PC game franchise of all time. Mr.
Braun took Maxis public on the NASDAQ exchange in 1995 before selling it to
Electronic Arts in 1997. Mr. Braun remained with Electronic Arts as SVP until
2000. Mr. Braun has since invested in a number of private companies, including
Pixel Technologies, which is Mr. Braun's current primary focus in the games
business.
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