Mentors

Here are the initial video game and venture capital mentors who will be advising teams coming through Joystick Labs Fall 2010 Accelerator Program. More to be announced soon.

• Dr. Michael Capps, President, Epic Games
• Chad Dezern, Studio Director, North Carolina Studio at Insomniac Games
• Jason Della Rocca, Senior Consultant, Perimeter Partners, and previously Exec Director of the International Game Developers Association
• Kirk Owen, Executive Producer, Playdom
• Jim Black, Director of Technology Evangelism, NVIDIA Corp.
• Michael Rasmussen, President, Republic of Fun
• Rett Crocker, Founder, Republic of Fun
• Alexander Macris, Publisher and Games Media expert, The Escapist
• John Austin, Vice President, Emergent Game Technologies
• John Glushik, General Partner, Intersouth Partners
• Mark Rostick, Director, Intel Capital
• Lister Delgado, Partner, IDEA Fund Partners
• Dr. Michael Young, Associate Professor of Computer Science, N.C. State University
• Timothy Buie, Assistant Professor, N.C. State University College of Design
• Walter Rotenberry, Instructor, Wake Technical Community College
• Eric Peterson, President and CEO, Vicious Cycle Software, Inc.
• Mike Pearson, Senior Producer, Atomic Games
• Phaedra Boinodiris, Serious Games Program Manager, IBM
• Michael Lee, Founder and Tech Director, Ludoko Studios
• Michael Dickheiser, former Lead Engineer, Id Software
• Paul Oliver, Engineer, Emergent Game Technologies