Casey Chafkin

About Casey Chafkin

Harvard MBA with senior management experience establishing, growing, and selling a…

Experience

1. Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

   Skillz

   Jan 2012 — Present

   The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $77 billion in 2020 to $150 billion in 2025. Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ) is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition. As the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform, Skillz is pioneering the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, and distributes millions in prizes each month. Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments. Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc.

Skills

• Entrepreneurship
• Product Marketing
• Strategy
• Management
• Business Development
• Venture Capital
• Start-Ups
• Strategic Partnerships
• Private Equity
• Mobile Commerce
• Product Management
• Saas
• Mobile Payments
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing
• E-Commerce
• Business Strategy
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Sales
• Mobile Devices