Jeff Wells
Jeff Wells founded Funium in 2010. He previously served as CEO of Genetree, the leading provider of genetic and family history services that unlock people’s ancestral legacy. Wells dramatically reduced Genetree’s operational expenses, raised funds, and repositioned the company for maximum growth. Wells also founded and lead Innovative Services of America, a company offering international technical support, customer care, claims processing and problem resolution. As CEO, the company doubled revenue annually for the first five years grew to over 3,000 employees taking over 25 million calls annually and entered contracts with many Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, General Electric, Sears, Mastercard and many more. Innovative Services was acquired by AON corporation.
Ross Wolfley
Ross Wolfley is a co-founder of Alpine Studios, Inc., a video game and entertainment game developer. For the past 10 years, he has served as the Company’s COO and Corporate Counsel. He is an active member of the Utah State Bar Association, having received his Juris Doctorate from J. Reuben Clark Law School where he graduated Cum Laude, together with a BS in Psychology from Brigham Young University.
Following his formal training and eight years in the United States Air Force as an instructor pilot and NATO fighter pilot, Mr. Wolfley worked for WordPerfect Corporation as Director of Marketing and Director of Channel Marketing. This began a period of extensive, broad-based marketing, management, strategic planning, and general business experience where he demonstrated a talent for profit making and leadership skills. After leaving WordPerfect Corporation in 1993 and before founding Alpine Studios, Inc, Mr. Wolfley served successfully as President of Action Plus Software, Vice President of Marketing for Capsoft Development Corporation, and Chief Operations Officer and President of TopJobs on the Net.
Matt Norton
Matt has created and driven successful video game and online titles for almost 20-years. A lifelong gamer, Matt started creating titles at Interplay’s Black Isle Studios before moving on to drive production at traditional game companies like Monolith, Pandemic, Epic, and Blizzard. Seeing the potential of both the online and free-to-play markets Matt ran the Dublin, Ireland, based studio of France Telecom’s European free-to-play business (GOA.com) and was the Studio Director at Bigpoint’s San Francisco studio. Matt has also been a founding member of two startups one to create remote teams of outsourced digital asset developers (Production Road) and another (Gametime Live) that built a play-along mobile & PC sports title. Matt brings his management, design, production, publishing, online, and free-to-play experience to Funium where we’re in the process of creating great new ways for families to learn, educate, share, securely-communicate, and enjoy time with one another.