• Greg Jones [+]
  (CEO)
• Scott Mathews [+]
  (Founder/Chief Technical Officer)
• Jennifer Chapin [+]
  (VP Marketing)
• Jason Hovey [+]
  (VP Product Marketing)
• Tim McAdam [+]
  (Board Member)

Greg Jones

CEO

Greg was the founder and CEO of WorldRes, a leading online hotel reservation company. Starting in 1995, he grew the company network to approximately 35,000 hotels with over 2,000 web distribution partners. Despite the "dot com" collapse, he led the company to profitability in 2001 with $240 million of gross hotel bookings, placing WorldRes as the number three player in online hotel reservations.

For the past five years, Greg has been an Angel investor, board member, and active advisor to early-stage Internet firms (Viator, Consorte Media, TravelPost, Go10000), action sports ventures (Surfparks), and "serious games" companies (LifeRocks). Prior to launching WorldRes, Greg was Director of the Advanced Technology Group at Synopsys, the leader in electronic design automation software. Before assuming that role, he held senior management positions in Systems Marketing, including Vice President of Marketing.Early in his career, he spent a number of years in management consulting with McKinsey & Company and Edgar, Dunn & Company. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts in Policy Studies and Economics from Dartmouth College.

Scott Mathews

Founder/Chief Technical Officer

Scott founded Fluid Entertainment in 1998 with one vision in mind: Enrich the lives of children. A decade later, Scott and his team have authored software titles for such high-profile brands as Pokémon, Harry Potter, Arthur the Aardvark, the Disney Princesses, Dungeons & Dragons, The Powerpuff Girls, and Mickey Mouse. Scott's creations have been translated worldwide across seven languages, and he has been Codie-nominated on two occasions for best educational title of the year. With 20 years of video game development to his credit and as an industry leader, Scott continues to fulfill his vision.

Scott began his career in 1989 by creating and self-publishing Mahjong, a popular title for the Apple IIgs. Three years later, Scott became a producer for Interplay and was instrumental in the creation of Brainstorm, Interplay's successful and profitable children's software division.

Mathews joined Presage Studios, (founded by colleague and friend Dame Bingham, designer of Carmen San Diego), as executive producer in 1994. He creatively managed the 70-person development house through a period of rapid growth, leading the way to a successful M&A with Human Code/Sapient in 1998.

Scott's creative vision is currently in full force on Emerald Island, an environmentally conscious MMOG for kids. The title launched in the fall of 2008.

Scott double majored in Economics and Art at Grinnell College. In addition to his creative endeavors, Scott enjoys his daily practice of yoga, avidly collecting board games from around the world, and his loving relationship with his wife, Heather, the director of the San Francisco Lyric Opera.

Jennifer Chapin

VP Marketing

Jennifer brings with her the success she achieved as co-founder of USAOPOLY, the game board company she started in 1993 to create, manufacture and market specialty editions of Hasbro's premier brands. Titles include Monopoly, Clue and Scrabble, and sales growth developed USAOPOLY into Hasbro's No. 1 licensee. Jennifer spearheaded USAOPOLY's significant growth and licensing deals with such brands as, NFL, PGA, Coca-Cola, Harley Davidson, Disney, Star Trek, Batman and others. During her tenure, revenues doubled for four consecutive years, staff size was quadrupled and volume topped one-million-plus units.

After leaving her company in 2000, Jennifer helped launch the charity portal (www.justgive.org). She then made the decision to merge the skills acquired throughout her career to form Liferocks Coaching & Consulting and to become a business development coach. She trained with San Francisco's prestigious New Ventures West Institute. Eager to merge her love of business, games and working with start-up companies, Jennifer joined forces with Greg Jones and Scott Mathews to develop Fluid Entertainment in 2005.

In her free time she enjoys a myriad of sports (Jennifer was a competitive tennis player and is now a want-to-be golfer), cooking and entertaining. She also sits on the business advisory council for Women for Women International (www.womenforwomen.org).Jennifer holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jason Hovey

VP Product Marketing

Jason Hovey is a specialist in developing both entertainment and educational products for kids online. Prior to joining Fluid, Jason worked at Kaboose, one of the largest family-focused online media companies, where he most recently served as VP of Business Development and oversaw partnerships with Yahoo!, Ask.com, Minyanville Publishing, Tarot.com, Harvard Health, and other leading web companies. Additionally, Jason oversaw the launch of Minyanland.com, the web’s first financial literacy-focused virtual world for kids, on Kaboose’s Funschool.com site.

Before Kaboose, Jason worked at Yahoo! for almost eight years focusing on kids and educational initiatives. After working as a senior editor and product development lead for Yahooligans!, Yahoo!’s award winning site for kids, he served as General Manager for both Yahooligans! and Yahoo! Education. As GM, he oversaw all aspects for these two distinct, multi-million dollar businesses, and focused on launching products and services used by over 10 million kids, parents, teachers, and lifelong learners each month. Jason was responsible for the launch and rapid growth of kid-safe versions of Yahoo! products like Games, Music, Search, News, Reference, and Movies as well as original offerings like Yahooligans! Animals, Science, Ecards, Jokes, and Horoscopes.

Prior to joining Yahoo! Jason was an elementary school teacher in California, teaching second and seventh grades for several years before working as a K-6 technology coordinator helping teachers integrate computers, software, and the Internet into their daily lessons. Jason has a BA in Political Science from UCLA, and received his California multiple subject teaching credential from the University of San Diego.

Tim McAdam

Board Member / General Partner, Trinity Ventures

Tim McAdam has been in the venture capital industry for fifteen years. Prior to joining Trinity, Tim worked as a Vice President at GTCR in Chicago, where he led investments in the information technology services, communications, logistics and outsourced business services industries. Tim began his venture capital career at TA Associates in Boston as an Associate focusing on application software.

Focus: IT Security, Software, Digital Media, Technology Based Services and Media/Content Services

Education:
M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business
B.A., Classics, Dartmouth College

Active board seats:
    Fluid Entertainment
    GuardID Systems
    Likewise Software (formerly Centeris)
    Mirage Networks
    Ripple
    Sabrix
    SciQuest
   Tippit

Previous investments and/or active involvement:
    Cardinal Logistics
    Cyclone Commerce (acquired by Sopra/Axway)
    Fiderus (acquired by NYSE: EDS)
    Hummingbird Communications (Nasdaq: HUMC)
    IntruVert Networks (acquired by NYSE: MFE)
    Restrac (Nasdaq: HIRE)
    JDA Software (Nasdaq: JDAS)
    Sygate (acquired by Nasdaq: SYMC)
    Trident International (acquired by NYSE: ITW)
    Vista Information Technologies (acquired by NYSE: AV)
    VTC (acquired by NYSE: LU)