Alan Gershenfeld
E-Line Ventures, President and Founder

Alan is currently Founder and President of E-Line Ventures, a publisher of digital entertainment that engages, educates and empowers - with a core focus on computer/video games and webcomics. Prior to E-Line, Alan spent seven years as CEO and Co-Founder of netomat, a leader in mobile-web community solutions. Alan helped to transform a network-based art project into a pioneering software company, and secured clients and partnerships with leading technology and content providers such as Electronic Arts, Warner Brothers, Motorola and Miramax. netomat was selected as a Technology Pioneer at the 2007 World Economic Forum at Davos.

Before netomat, Alan spent six years at Activision as a member of the executive management team that rebuilt Activision from bankruptcy into a profitable industry leader with more than a billion dollars in revenue. Alan served as Senior Vice President of Activision Studios where he supervised all product development at the company's Los Angeles studios, releasing titles Civilization: Call to Power, Asteroids, Muppet Treasure Island, Spycraft, Pitfall, Zork and Tony Hawk Skateboarding.

Before Activision, Alan spent nearly ten years in the film industry where he worked in development, production and post-production with credits on numerous feature films and documentaries. As a writer, Alan was a film critic for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and co-author of "Game Plan", a book about the computer and video game business published by St. Martin's Press. Alan currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Games for Change a nonprofit that helps to rise the sector of computer and video games for social change.