Our Team

We are longtime game and entertainment enthusiasts. Our team includes staff from Screenlife, the inventor of Scene It?, the DVD-based movie game that sold over 25 million units. We’re currently assembling a seasoned team from the casual game, digital entertainment and social media industries.

Dave Long - Co-Founder/CEO

Before founding Exponential Entertainment, Dave co-founded Screenlife LLC and invented the company’s blockbuster Scene It? line of interactive DVD board games, which sold more than 20 million games in 9 languages across 26 different countries. Dave drove the development of blockbuster Scene It? games from popular entertainment franchises, including Harry Potter, James Bond, Friends, Disney, Marvel Comics, Nickelodeon, HBO and many others. Dave also negotiated license agreements with major Hollywood studios (Warner Bros., Universal and Paramount), major music labels (EMI, Warner and Universal) and major sports leagues (MLB, NFL and NBA). Screenlife was sold to Paramount Pictures in 2008.

Bill Kuper - Co-Founder/CTO

Bill's career spans over 25 years of media production and technology. Prior to founding Exponential Entertainment Bill was CTO at Screenlife, makers of the Scene It? line of DVD games. Bill was instrumental in the early development of Scene It? along with his team at Digital Farm, the digital media services company he founded before merging with Screenlife in 2004. A pioneer in the DVD industry, he served as a director on the board of the international DVD Association until 2007. Bill currently serves on the board of two non-profit foundations.

Ed Fries - Board Member

Ed Fries created his first video games for the Atari 800 in the early 1980s. He joined Microsoft in 1986, and spent the next ten years as one of the founding developers of both Excel and Word. He left the Office team to pursue his passion for interactive entertainment and created Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years he grew the team from 50 people to over 1200, published more than 100 games including more than a dozen million+ sellers, co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the interactive entertainment business. In 2004, Ed retired from his Microsoft Vice President job to continue his work in the video game business as board member, advisor and consultant to a broad range of publishers, independent game developers, and media companies. In 2007 Ed launched his own startup, FigurePrints, an innovative company that uses 3D color printing technology to bring video game characters to life.

Consultants

Jon Grande

Jon is a veteran of the online and connected console game industry. During 17 years at Microsoft, Jon served in a variety of management roles: as Executive Producer on several award winning games for Windows, Xbox and Xbox360, as well as managing relationships with Microsoft's top external development partners, including BioWare, Turbine Entertainment, Gas Powered Games, and Marvel Enterprises. While at Microsoft, Jon started the MSN Gaming Zone and contributed to the strategies for both MSN Games and Xbox Live. Following his tenure at Microsoft, Jon was a co-founder of Blade Games, a venture backed development tools and integrated services company. In addition to his role at Exponential Entertainment, Jon is an advisor to PlaySpan, provider of an in-game commerce network for massively multiplayer games.

Alicia Evans

Alicia is the founder of Select Financial Resources LLC, a consulting firm providing executive level finance and business operations services. Her clients have included several early stage Seattle companies where she has served as acting Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Select Financial Resources, Alicia was the VP of Finance at Marchex, Inc a NASDAQ listed local search and advertising company. Alicia’s career spans more than 17 years of work with successful companies in industries including games, Internet commerce, display advertising, public accounting and telecommunications, and she is a Certified Public Accountant - Inactive.