Kristopher Sandoval Email & Phone Number

California, United States

In my role at thatgamecompany, I have spearheaded our experiential marketing efforts in foreign and domestic markets, targeting Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. My flagship experiential marketing event, SkyFest, saw well over 12k in physical turnstile attendance, as well as more than 1m in global digital attendance. SkyFest created some groundbreaking industry-first technology solutions, offering the first fully synchronized in-person and in-game video game convention.

I'm a Partner at DeveloperFirst.io, a boutique technology product and product marketing agency based out of Canada. In this role, I help to guide our ongoing product investment and development efforts, as well as guide and contribute ongoing thought leadership and content marketing to a variety of clients.

As Founder of wriot!, I have led organizations in the technology and biomedical sector to Product-Led Growth (PLG) success, delivering huge wins across clients as diverse as Amazon, Science and Medicine Group, CloudSploit, Firetail, and Moesif. My growth planning, development guidance, and brand marketing has reaped huge successes, achieving 7-figure growth and facilitating several high-profile acquisitions and mergers.

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At NordicAPIs, I have served as a core staff contributor, authoring over 300 books, articles, and whitepapers on topics including operations, business logic, and product lifecycle management.

As Programming Director at Mischief Management, I owned the end-to-end programming for our LeakyCon, BroadwayCon, and Con of Thrones events. In this role, I created memorable programming and activations, generating fan acclaim and securing coverage in The New York Times, Variety, People Magaze, and other print and digital publications. I've worked with amazing talents like Hillary Clinton, Vanessa Williams, Julie White, Sean Astin, and Elijah Wood, amongst countless others.

San Francisco Bay Area

As Director of Community Development at Fandom, I formed and led a high-performance team of 32 full-time employees and contractors in product management and content marketing. I developed and implemented content marketing plans for household brands such as Nintendo, Sega, Warner Bros., and Disney, growing our product platform to an average of 2.4B page views across 249M users and 639M sessions. I additionally oversaw our COPPA and GDPR compliance efforts, bringing our platform into full compliance.

San Francisco Bay Area

As Director of Anime at Fandom, I formed an industry-first multidiscipline team focused on the development of content marketing in the Japanese media space. I grew my team from myself to 20 full-time employees and contractors, executing highly effective content marketing across brands including Viz Media, Crunchyroll, Funimation, Aniplex, and more. In addition to my efforts in the anime space, I overhauled our contractor engagement systems to grow our teams while reducing overhead, allowing us to reach more verticals and fan bases than ever before.

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(Note: this role reported into the Twitch org as part of the Amazon acquisition of Curse.)As the Partnership Analyst, I oversaw the development of our partnership pipeline, forging relationships with brands across streaming media and gaming. These efforts would ultimately result in an acquisition by Amazon/Twitch and an integration of this role into their reporting structure in 2016. After joining Amazon, I assisted in partnership development and ongoing product development under Amazon Gaming. Additionally, I co-developed the Curse Trials, a product which would ultimately become Twitch Rivals.

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(Note: this role originally reported into the Gamepedia org, the core product team at Curse. Curse was acquired by Amazon in 2016.)As content manager at Curse, I oversaw the development of our content marketing platform across a diverse range of properties in the gaming space. I additionally served as the chief point of contact for much of our partnership development, facilitating direct business-to-business communication and developing high-value partnered activations.[This role was originally with Curse, which was acquired in 2016.]

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

This was a graduate degree focusing on corporate development, business management, fundraising and financial control, and leadership. My.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology

This degree was an undergraduate course of study focused heavily on information technology through the lens of corporate governance, team.

Associate Of Applied Science - As, Information Technology - Network Administration

This course of study focused on the development and implementation of servers, end-user hardware, and cloud-based systems, applications.