Digenetics, Inc. Appoints Chief Executive Officer
Industry Veteran James Lin Joins Digenetics As CEO
San Diego, CA, October 15, 2008 – Digenetics Inc., a leading edge technology company in the digital
interactive entertainment industry, announced that James Lin, a seasoned digital media executive and former
Wall Street analyst and investment banker has been named Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Lin’s experience includes a decade on Wall Street as a highly regarded and award-winning interactive
entertainment analyst at some of the industry’s top investment banks. He was most recently Managing Director
of Gallipo Group, an advisory firm focused solely on the interactive entertainment vertical. Lin has also served
as Chief Strategy Officer and Global Head of Business Development for DreamCatcher Interactive (acquired
by Austrian game publisher, JoWooD in November 2006) where business development efforts he spearheaded
yielded lucrative gains for the company. In addition to DreamCatcher, Lin also served as Chief Operating
Officer and Head of Business Development at Global Window Partners Inc., a privately held knowledge
services company, where he was instrumental in transforming the company into a leading provider of elearning
content. During his tenure, revenues increased over eight-fold. Lin currently serves on the board of
directors of Global Window Partners.
Thomas Lang, Chairman of the Board, said, "We are thrilled to have James Lin leading Digenetics into this
exciting phase of growth. He possesses the exact combination of vision, management and domain expertise,
and is the business savvy leader that the Board was seeking. James has a firm understanding of the challenges
facing our industry and has a proven track record of driving growth and operational excellence. He has an
energetic, decisive and ‘no-nonsense’ leadership style and is the ideal person to take Digenetics forward. We
are very pleased to have attracted such a talent to Digenetics.”
James Lin said, "I am very excited to be working with the enormously talented and brilliant minds at
Digenetics to take the Company to the next level. Digenetics has developed a powerful and patented
technology that enables digital characters to evolve on their own. I believe there is an extraordinary
opportunity to revolutionize the digital interactive entertainment industry by redefining gameplay and
introducing new possibilities to game publishers and developers, and gamers of all levels. I look forward to
leading the charge at Digenetics and seizing that opportunity."
About Digenetics
Digenetics, Inc. is a San Diego, CA-based technology company that has created a patented process for digital
characters that actually gives these characters the ability to evolve traits and intelligence. Based on advanced
proprietary evolutionary computation techniques, Digenetics enables digital characters to adapt and learn from
their experiences and then make changes within their environment without further programming. In
collaboration with leading game publisher and developer partners, Digenetics is poised to revolutionize the
digital interactive entertainment industry. Fun and innovative digital entertainment products featuring adaptive
evolutionary learning are planned for release in 2009 -- Gameplay will never be the same.
More information about Digenetics may be found at www.digenetics.com.
Contact
Digenetics, Inc.
media@digenetics.com
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