About Us
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Zipline Games is a Seattle based mobile games company and the creator of the Moai game development platform. Zipline was founded by game industry veterans experienced with the challenges of mobile games development, with the vision of making development faster and easier so developers can focus on creating innovative games with great game-play. Zipline’s investors include Founders Co-Op, Benaroya Capital and Groundspeak.
Todd Hooper – CEO
Todd is a twenty year veteran of high tech companies including Apple Computer and WatchGuard. Since moving to Seattle in 1998 he has founded two companies in the media and enterprise markets.
Todd was first bitten by the entrepreneur bug in high school when he developed a number of video games for Commodore computers, and Zipline represents a welcome return to his gaming roots.
Patrick Meehan – CTO
Patrick has over twenty years of experience in game development. A graduate of the first class of the DigiPen Institute, Patrick has worked at Nintendo, Amaze Entertainment and Interactive Imagination. Patrick was a founder of Tenacious Games and one of the creators of The Spoils collectible card game.
Prior to Zipline, Patrick led mobile development at Groundspeak, and created their Webby award winning Geocaching application for iPhone.
Mike Arcuri – VP, Marketing
Mike has a fifteen year history of setting product visions, leading software teams and tuning products based on market response at great startups like Ontela and Photobucket and blue chip companies like Microsoft. Mike loves mobile, games, and platforms designed to support them. He also digs startups, having founded 3 of his own and done a stint at TechStars, Seattle. When Mike was 8 years old and got his first computer (a TI-99/4A), he told people his career plan was to create a hit video game and make a million dollars. Some things never change.
Rob LaRubbio – VP Cloud Platform Engineering
Rob has a fifteen year history of working at the leading edge of internet technology. It’s surprising he ever got started after spending most of his time at Villanova University playing Trade Wars and other MMORPGs. He eventually shook his addiction long enough to hold down steady jobs at Netscape and Amazon.com and start a family. He has worked to make the world a better place at Grameen Foundation and is now working to make it a more entertaining place at Zipline.
Shane Kim – Independent Director
Shane is a former corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, where he managed many top console franchises including Halo, Gears of War, Fable, and Forza Motorsport. Armed with both a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Shane started at Microsoft back in 1989. In addition to serving on the board of Zipline, Shane is also on the board of GameStop.