User:Jasakel

International Game Developers Association

Jason Akel, formerly a marketing executive at Trymedia Systems/Macrovision, now provides strategic marketing and business development consulting services. Akel specializes in the distribution of content online and web commerce. Akel develops for clients the strategy for and manages the execution of large consumer direct marketing, affiliate marketing and on/offline advertising programs. Akel also works with content creators and service providers to secure strategic partnerships and distribution. Akel’s clients include/have included Cartoon Network, Exent Technologies, Boonty Games, Funkitron, ThwartPoker, TikGames and many others.

Akel helped build Trymedia Systems into the world leader in games DRM and online distribution to the point of sale to Macrovision in July 2005. Akel led consumer, affiliate and key partner strategy. He played a crucial business development role in bringing AOL, BitTorrent, Buy.com, Earthlink, Major League Baseball, Yahoo! and 200+ other partners into Trymedia. Akel is also responsible for increasing game publisher Atari’s web revenue in 2003 to the point where it was the company’s #2 profit line, which caused a chain reaction and brought dozens of other major publishers into digital distribution.

Before Trymedia, Akel served in sales and marketing leadership roles at CheapTickets.com and The Knot (#1 wedding website, NASDAQ: KNOT). In a prior life, he worked in the motion picture and television industry, as an award-winning independent film producer and manager at several studios.

Jason can be reached at jasakel@gmail.com or 1.510.964.9094.