Sam Glassenberg

Experience

Funtactix

Founder, CEO 2008 - Present (over 18 years)

Since joining Funtactix as CEO in 2008, the studio has pioneered the business of free-to-play games for major box office films. Sam brought Funtactix from a pre-revenue, pre-product... more

Microsoft

Senior Lead Program Manager, DirectX 2002 - 2008 (about 6 years)

Managed an elite team at Microsoft responsible for driving the future of real-time graphics across the gaming ecosystem and for realizing Microsoft's strategy for graphics.
Recognized... more

LucasArts

Employee

Founder

Funtactix

Employee

Microsoft, LucasArts

Education

About

Achievements

Awards:
2012 Webby Awards: Best Tablet Game
2012 Variety's Best Entertainment-Based Mobile Game
2012 Forbes Top-10 Most Promising Companies in Israel
2007 Technical Emmy (Accepted on behalf of the DirectX team)

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Game Development Mobile Games GPU Computing Start-Up CEO Management iPhone Business Development Monetization Free-to-Play Virtual Reality

Locations

Chicago

Sam Glassenberg

CEO of Funtactix. Managed the DirectX Graphics team at Microsoft. Prior experience MSN/XboxLIVE/LucasArts. MS in CS, Stanford.

Awards: 2012 Webby Awards: Best Tablet Game 2012 Variety's Best Entertainment-Based Mobile Game 2012 Forbes Top-10 Most Promising Companies in Israel 2007 Technical Emmy (Accepted on behalf of the DirectX team)

Awards:
2012 Webby Awards: Best Tablet Game
2012 Variety's Best Entertainment-Based Mobile Game
2012 Forbes Top-10 Most Promising Companies in Israel
2007 Technical Emmy (Accepted on behalf of the DirectX team)