Co-Founder, Chief Executive, Jam City Inc.
Yguado, Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb purchased social gaming platform MindJolt Inc. in 2010 and turned the company into Jam City. Jam City is now one of the top publishers in mobile and social game development. Since its founding the company has logged more than $4 billion in aggregate lifetime bookings, billions of game installs and has raised over $650 million. Yguado took over as chief executive in January of last year after serving as Jam City’s chief operating officer and president for about 13 years. Before launching Jam City, Yguado was vice president of Fox Entertainment, where he helped with the acquisition of Myspace, the creation of Hulu and launch of new television networks, led strategic planning for MTV Networks and Nickelodeon and oversaw corporate development for Univision.
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