MARK FRIEDLER
CEO & Co-Founder, Gigex, Inc. – www.gigex.com

Mark is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gigex, Inc., the leading Internet distribution and marketing service game trailers and demos. He has been with the company since 1995.

Gigex is the leading advertising and promotions company specializing in distribution of video game demos and trailers to the largest audience of consumers on the Internet. Gigex content is viewed by 23.9 million people each month (Comscore Media Metrix February 2003 audit) from its site and across over 75 leading portal, entertainment and lifestyle websites. Gigex has promoted hundreds of major game titles for leading publishers including 3DO, BAM!, Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts, Gotham Games, Infogrames, Microsoft, SEGA, Sierra, Sony, Take Two, THQ, UbiSoft, Vivendi Universal, the US Army and others. Gigex recently acquired the leading video game industry trade publication, GameDAILY. Founded in 1995, Gigex is privately held with offices in San Francisco and New York City.

Mark was Director of Marketing at Reach Networks, Inc from 1994-1995 where he managed marketing and sales of business to business Extranet services to Fortune 500 clients. From 1992 - 1994, Mark was Managing Director of Teleworld Sweden AB, a joint venture of Philips Media and PTT Telecom Netherlands. Teleworld developed and operated interactive voice response and television-based online entertainment and transaction services together with TV3, MTV Europe and Holland's RTL4. Prior to that, Mark founded and operated Sweden's first chain of cookie stores, Marks Cookies. 

He is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows sponsored by AT&T, Microsoft, IQPC, Jupiter Communications, The Red Herring, The NYC Economic Development Corporation and The Software and Information Industry Association. He was chairperson for both IQPC's San Francisco conference "Best Practices for Marketing, Selling and Distributing Software over the Internet" the European Electronic Software Delivery Conference. He writes for trade journals Software Business and SIIA's Upgrade. He holds a B.A in Political Science from Hamilton College in New York and has taken graduate courses in business law, programming and network management. Mark is 38 years old and lives in San Francisco with his wife and 2 sons.