Eli Weissman Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Brooklyn, New York, United States

At RKD, we are actively engaged in transforming loyalty programs into powerful performance instruments with some of the world's premier brands

New York, New York, United States

• Web 3 Technology planning: Partnered with stakeholders around the Nike org to identify and productize Web 3 initiatives capable of producing meaningful and profitable consumer centric product offerings
• Partnership lead: Strategically developed and managed key partnerships in support of critical Nike initiatives
• Technology leadership: Partnered with key stakeholders to identify opportunities for transformative change through the effective use of cutting edge technology
• Culture of Innovation: Produced and presented multiple information sessions to the wider Nike workforce to understand the possibilities of specific emerging technologies capable of transforming existing products and.
• Technology and business strategy: Authored white papers detailing specific opportunities for Nike to lead in key areas, including responsible use of emerging technology, product expansion while maintaining brand.
• Legal Process Management: Collaborated with legal, IP, and related teams to facilitate complex business arrangements ranging from initial terms of contact, through M/A diligence

Greater New York City Area

• GameCo, Inc., a pioneering new company poised to unite skill-based video games with real-money casino floor gaming, has created the world's first video game gambling machines (VGM™) in an effort to bring a new.
• Directly Facilitated the Raising of Funding: Teamed with CEO and investors to raise more than $85 million dollars in equity and debt financing
• Category Analysis: Teamed with CEO and senior leadership to analyze the trajectory of gaming industry, identify risks and opportunities, and establish a clear understanding of long-term vulnerabilities
• Development of Product Vision: Created a new category of gambling product to alleviate the long-term vulnerabilities of an industry at risk of losing tens of billions in revenue, and tens of thousands of jobs
• Customer Identification: Develop customer profiles for current and future users
• Product Definition: Defined products that engaged multiple customer profiles

NY, NY

• Founder and President of growing technology company with a focus on creating custom interactive experiences.
• Manage a full time team as well as freelancers and sub contractors.
• Work with local teams as well as teams spread over multiple continents.
• Spec, bid, design, and produce games and interactive experiences for marketing, education, research, corporate, and entertainment products.
• Clients include Amplify, Yale, Google, Mars, MetLife, Everfi, TGA, Special Guest, and more.
• Produced and design W.E.L.D.E.R. for iOS, Android, Kindle and Mac App store. o More than 1,000,000 paid downloads. o Received “Game of the Week” from Apple as well as countless other Features on the iOS App Store.

NY, NY

• Managed all aspects of growing production/post production facility servicing film, TV, web and agency clients.
• Clients included MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, HBO, and many others
• Projects included The VMA’s, MTV Movie awards, Inside Amy Schumer, Ugly Americans, Skeleton Twins, For Ellen, My Man is a Loser and Pariah among many others.

• Managed production department of 18 full-time staff charged with generating content for in game cut-scenes and audio, television, Internet, and print marketing, as well as other production services for some of the best.
• Worked directly and collaboratively with senior executive management on strategy, budgeting, and forecasting for production, post-production, and staffing.
• Functioned as supervising producer on TV and Internet commercials, as well as live action shoots, motion capture, and audio recordings for all Rockstar games produced between 2005 and 2008. (e.g. GTA 4, Midnight Club.

• Hired full production and post-production staff of 18 fulltime employees and multiple freelancers, including tech engineers, video editors, capture artists, audio recordists, mixers, editors, graphics artists, and.
• Supervised construction of post-production facility: all bricks and mortar construction, HVAC, wiring and cabling, equipment selection, and integration. Managed efforts of contractors and their crews to have facility.

• Managed staff, hiring, scheduling, accounting, sales and equipment purchases for a rapidly growing post-production facility.
• Increased gross earning at Caterini studios by more than ten fold. Caterini studios was bought by Postworks in 2003 and is now part of the largest post-facility on the east coast of the U.S.

• Built and managed post-production department within New York-based production company.Planned workflow, hired staff, designed new equipment systems and overall extended companies existing capabilities.

• Assisted in the making of individual episodes of Trauma: Life In The E.R. and Paramedics.