Jamil Moledina Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Jamil serves as strategic advisor, consultant, or co-founder to several forward-looking games startups, including the leading AI engine for gameplay Inworld AI, and stealth startups from bestselling science fiction author Neal Stephenson, and Oscar-winning special effects veteran John Gaeta. Jamil previously advised Pixelberry through their acquisition by Nexon, advised Applifier through their exit to Unity, and served as VP BD for Funzio through their exit to Gree.

Crater Productions is Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson’s IP production company. Jamil provides production and business development services to Stephenson and co-founder Karen Laur, in adapting Stephenson’s novels to film, TV, and interactive media. They also incubate original interactive projects for development.

Jamil heads XP Consulting, an integrated creative, operational, and strategic games management consultancy. His cross-functional background, curating, funding, and developing great games and platforms, gives him adaptability to address partners' complex goals. His focus was on business development between film and games, working with partners such as Skydance Media, HBO, and Dolby, as well as immersive experience developers such as Hexagram. The work included portfolio strategy, platform partnerships, IP licensing, funding, and production; producing a publishing roadmap and execution plan for running a games business; and developing a long-term games strategy based on core competencies and emerging trends.

Mountain View, California, Us

Jamil manages partnerships and business development for Inworld AI. The company's dev platform provides an all-in-one solution for integrating AI into gameplay, such as creating lifelike AI-driven characters for games and other immersive experiences.Inworld uses advanced AI to build generative characters whose personalities, thoughts, memories, and behaviors are designed to mimic the deeply social nature of human interaction. The Inworld platform lets you create characters with personality and contextual awareness to keep them in-world and in character. Integrations make it easy for developers to deploy characters into immersive experiences, while scale and performance are optimized for real-time experiences.

Jamil headed games partnerships and media for Lamina1. The brainchild of Neal Stephenson (Chairman), who first conceptualized the Metaverse in his 1992 bestselling book Snow Crash, and Peter Vessenes (CEO), a foundational leader from the early days of Bitcoin, Lamina1 is a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to empower the Open Metaverse.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Jamil Moledina served as CEO of Hexagram. The company develops ambient experiences – games that use chat, story, and personalization to blend fiction and reality. Together with co-founders Rob Auten and Stan Wiechers, they formed the leadership team of the company. Using simple play and user data, the company creates complex, living experiences that let you engage with a digital person or a whole Metaverse. Founded in 2012, the company built a team and tech pipeline to develop over 30 immersive experiences for major media, tech, and live event partners. With this foundation, Hexagram is pioneering the development of ambient play – experiences that use everyday interactions like chat, personalized content, location services, and augmented reality to seamlessly deliver play across platforms. This adaptation helps non-gamers and gamers alike enter Hexagram's living game worlds, wherever they are, at a relaxed, asynchronous pace that fits conveniently into mainstream culture. The company’s cloud tech integrates AI characters, scripted narratives, procedural content, and ML generative systems that make an immersive Metaverse available to anyone at any time. This lets people play meaningful roles in the worlds and stories they care about, in a way that fits how we all live. Hexagram developed this model across both original and franchise partnership projects. For example, Hexagram recently developed the Stranger Things: Operation Scoop Snoop collaborative spy game in partnership with m ss ng p eces (Tribeca), Baskin-Robbins, and Netflix. It took fans down a rabbit hole of 80s tech, Soviet espionage, and personalized chat conversations with AI versions of the show’s familiar characters. The delight and volume of engagement the game brought to fans earned it a 2020 Interactive Emmy nomination and two Webby Awards.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Jamil served on the management team defining and executing objectives and results for Google Play store management; as creative director of games portfolios for new Google platforms; and as games spokesperson for press and industry keynotes. He began his tenure leading games strategic partnerships to bring great games to Google Play. This included setting outreach strategy for curating key game segments on the store, ranging from AAA publishers to indies, and managing a team of game industry veterans who serve as direct points of contact for them. The team's support included providing technical resources, business optimization, and editorial featuring, and titles included Blizzard's Hearthstone, Lucasfilm/EA's Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, and Niantic/TPC's Pokémon Go. Through Google Play, Jamil also managed the curation of games portfolios for nascent platforms – such as Daydream and Tango, Google's high performance mobile VR and AR platforms – helping craft games that highlight the unique, fun gameplay the new platforms enable, such as Alcon/Seismic's Blade Runner: Revelations. Jamil ultimately focused in this area, where he directed creative prototyping and third party game development and production for Stadia, Google's cloud game streaming platform.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Wormhole Games was founded by Jamil Moledina and James Kelm, with a team pedigree including Electronic Arts, Google, Apple, and Funzio. The company made Tank Nation, a turn-based artillery game, reimagined as a free-to-play mobile game. The game was featured by Apple, and earned a 4+ star user rating. Jamil and James co-managed development, creative direction, business, fundraising, recruiting, and platform relations.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Signia Venture Partners is leading game investor Rick Thompson's venture firm. Jamil worked with Rick in assisting existing investments, evaluating potential investments, and developing new ventures.

Funzio was a leading social mobile games startup, focused on midcore multiplatform games. Jamil managed platform and partner strategy, headed marketing and communications, and served on the executive team. After the company was acquired by Gree, Jamil continued on as VP Business Development of Gree International.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

The IGDA is the game industry's professional association. Jamil proposed and championed the IGDA HP, a healthcare program that applies the collective bargaining position of the IGDA membership to deliver more affordable healthcare options for members. He also drove certain housekeeping matters.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

As part of the EA Partners team, Jamil signed and published a portfolio of standout independent games, and provided publisher outreach for the Origin digital store. He also served as co-lead with Mike Doran in creating and managing EA Arthouse, EA Partners’ initiative to sign and publish indie developers’ downloadable games. The team shipped six games including Klei's Shank and Hothead's DeathSpank.

London, Gb

Jamil managed the overall business, operations, and P&L of the GDC and its satellite events, and also curated the editorial content of the conference and its keynotes.

London, Gb

San Francisco, Ca, Us

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