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Dewolfe, Chris — Jam City Inc
Chief Executive Officer
Jam City Inc.
THE LATEST: Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, DeWolfe's entertainment company continues to grow its global footprint in mobile gaming. Jam City developed a new genre with the release of the award-winning real-time strategy title "World War Doh" and expanded into Japan with the fan-favorite Match 3 game "Disney Emoji Blitz, which has surpassed 30 million installs. This year the studio is celebrating the two-year anniversary of "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery," the most downloaded mobile game in more than 40 countries. It has surpassed 35 billion minutes played since its release.
BACKGROUND: Jam City founder DeWolfe was the co-founder and one-time chief executive of MySpace, which had more than 130 million monthly users by the time he left the company in 2009. Backed by Austin Ventures, DeWolfe purchased social-gaming platform MindJolt Inc. in 2010. A year later, MindJolt acquired Jam City. DeWolfe is an adviser for USC's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and a board member of Uproxx Media Group Inc.
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