Dan Scherlis has 15 years of experience creating online communities and videogames. As CEO of Turbine he produced the successful massively-multiplayer game (MMO) Asheron’s Call. Dan then directed content and partnerships for a games initiative within mobile giant Comverse. His background includes game publishing (Papyrus), online services (Ziff/ATT Interchange), and cable TV (HBO). Dan holds AB, AM (Linguistics), and MBA degrees from Harvard.

Dan advises online-community and game ventures. He is a frequent speaker and conference-moderator at both games-industry and entrepreneurial-business events.