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Hot Shot boasts a team of outstanding professionals with impressive and wide-ranging backgrounds spanning a broad spectrum of related online applications and from within the visual arts and social gaming arenas.
Hot Shot’s executive team has an outstanding record in idea generation, concept delivery, management performance and profitability. The operating team is backed up by a strong and strategic group of passionate and influential supporters and shareholders.
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Executives | Advisors | Team
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Paul Fullwood | Bio
"Traveling through the jungle on this track near San Salvador, we were stopped and arrested by armed communist soldiers, held at gunpoint and lined up for summary execution, saved only by the arrival of a “Capitan” who was kind enough to allow us to pay for our lives, in cash."
Professor Paul Fullwood has an extraordinary background in both technology and content development in a career spanning over 30 years. He founded his own games development studio in the USA in 1979, later moving the company into television production and technology consultancy.
In 1996 he co-founded Lightspan Inc., a company developing educational games for the Sony PlayStation, which went public in February 2000. Thereafter he joined Hasbro Interactive (Formerly Microprose, now Atari) as VP and Head of Worldwide Studios, where he ran 5 AAA Studios and developed such games as Rollercoaster Tycoon, Civilization II and MechWarrior 3.
In 2001 he founded Digital Animation Inc, a venture capital funded company in Silicon Valley with unique video compression technology.
Prior to joining Hot Shot Media, Paul was Professor of video games technology at the University of Abertay, Scotland – where he also served on the Academic Senate – and Director of the International Centre for Computer Games and Virtual Entertainment (IC_CAVE).
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Josh Bakken | Bio
"I used to have the worst digital camera EVER!! Actually it wasn't all that bad but the shutter speed was horrible. Anyway, when taking shots with movement I always had to try to time the shots just right...but I was never very good at it. Here's one of my favorite shots where I obviously "missed" it but it turned out to be one of my favorite pictures of all time."
Having worked for companies such as EA, Hasbro Interactive and Leapfrog, among others, Josh Bakken has been helping companies create and drive great gaming experiences for over 10 years.
Josh is a veteran of the free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) space, in which he has been the Producer on two Free-to-Play games and led teams to deliver record sales.
In addition to his MMO work, Josh is also the Founder of Advanced Play Studios, LLC and the Co-Founder of Temple Games Inc. There he focused primarily on developing traditional toys and games.
Josh is truly excited about the Hot Shot Media mission and can’t wait to help develop and release a whole list of photo-based activities that he’s confident you’ll be talking about in big ways very soon.
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Sam Urton | Bio
"This is a picture of my daughter and her cousin, on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City. You can see the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance. It was a very hot and humid day in August, and dark storm clouds had quickly rolled in over Manhattan. I shot this image just as a massive gust of wind blew in over the river, bringing with it an intense rain & thunder storm seconds later. We ran for cover to a nearby ice cream parlor."
Sam brings over 15 years of hands on web and interactive visual design experience to his role as Lead Visual Designer at Hot Shot Media. His varied experience includes working with assorted Bay Area start-ups, established e-commerce and social media web sites, and a number of web/interactive design and marketing agencies.
Most recently Sam was Senior Visual Designer at Shutterfly Inc. (2002–2006), and Design Director for Ebates (2006–2009).
Sam has also acted as a design consultant, helping many high profile clients take their project from initial concept on to a compelling online presence.
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Keith Tan | Bio
"Capturing my memories of the inaugural Qantas Airbus A380 service on the Kangaroo route between Sydney and London Heathrow. The Qantas Airbus A380 operating between Australia and the United Kingdom represents yet another evolutionary moment in global air travel, continuing to shrink boundaries and break barriers."
Keith Tan serves as General Manager – Asia of the Hot Shot Media Group.
A lawyer by profession, Keith has also served as political advisor to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier of Victoria. He has a specific focus and expertise in marketing and media, and has an extensive contact base in travel and associated industries.
Keith's passion in photography lies in its ability to capture every aspect of the weird and wonderful things he comes across whilst travelling in a way no words can.
Keith holds Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (Media & Communications) with Honours degrees from the University of Melbourne.
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Sean Coady | Bio
"Hiking to Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park in Alaska, I came around the corner and met this huge coastal grizzly face-to-face."
Sean Coady is an accomplished engineering manager and architect with ten years of experience building and supporting large scale web systems. He joins HotShotMedia as the VP of UI Architecture. Most recently Sean worked as the front-end engineering manager at Kodak Gallery where he led the team of Flex and JavaScript engineers in building the new revamped KodakGallery.com photo-sharing web site. Before Kodak, Sean led the development team at Veoh.com, a popular video sharing web site providing streaming of TV shows, movies, and user videos. Prior to Veoh, Sean worked at Sony Electronics where he was the Engineering and Operations manager of Sony's photo-sharing web site ImageStation.com.
Sean likes to run and mountain bike in his spare time. He recently qualified for the Boston Marathon.
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Gary Leung | Bio
"Being pushed by the crowd at Notre Dame, Paris, I stopped briefly and enjoyed the beauty of the candles and the stained glass windows in the background."
Gary Leung is Vice President of Engineering Architecture at Hot Shot Media.
Gary joined Hot Shot Media from Minted where he served as Vice President of Engineering and was responsible for system architecture, technology strategy and software development. Prior to Minted, Gary was Senior Engineering Manager at Shutterfly where he was responsible for overall Web infrastructure and Professional Services. He also held various software engineering positions at Shutterfly and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Gary received his Bachelor in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and his Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Siv Lam | Bio
"During a vacation in Puerto Rico, we explored Los Morrillos, the cliffs & caves at Boqueron Beach. This was an impromptu hike. All I had were my flip flops to serve as hiking boots. I snapped this picture at the top of a 200-foot cliff. If you look closely, you can see my toes just a few inches from the cliff's edge. I wanted to capture the waves crashing below without falling over. It sure was scary!"
Siv Lam is the Marketing Coordinator at Hot Shot Media. Siv has worked with various companies, helping them with their marketing & social media strategies. She also writes for the San Francisco Examiner.
Siv received her Bachelor of Science in Communication from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
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Christian Yee | Bio
"The view from the cable car that takes you up the cliffs of Masada is breathtaking, but probably less so than walking to the top."
Christian Yee is a product marketing and management specialist with experience at leading East and West Coast companies. Prior to joining Hot Shot Media, Christian served as a producer in the fast-growing Free-to-Play Massively Multiplayer Online Game industry, managing teams in the US and Asia to serve and monetize a community of nearly one million players.
Christian has also worked with partners and customers at extremely large scales as a former member of the product marketing management team at Google Inc, where he drove B2B and B2C campaigns for the popular Google Analytics and Google Checkout products. He has also been an accomplished blogger for Google AdWords.
Christian holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from Brown University. In his spare time he enjoys reading and capoeira.
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Adam Deschamp | Bio
"This was my first photo taken while living in San Francisco. I walked out to the 9th floor balcony of the Art Institute and captured a quick photo before class."
Adam Deschamp is a recent graduate of The Art Institute of California - San Francisco with a degree in Web Design and Interactive Media. He joins Hot Shot Media as an Assistant Web Developer specializing in front-end UI development.
Little known facts - He's a twin.
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