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Live Gamer Hires Gaming Vet, Kurtis Buckmaster, as VP Product Marketing
Monday, May 12, 2008
Former Pro Gamer Brings Deep MMOG and Marketing Experience to Executive Team
NEW YORK, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Live Gamer, the premier operator of a
publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, has
brought on gaming and marketing expert, Kurtis Buckmaster, as Vice President
of Product Marketing. Buckmaster brings rich professional and personal gaming
expertise to Live Gamer, including deep product marketing, promotions, and
online community experience.
Buckmaster has 18 years experience developing cutting edge online
community experiences for gamers, with more than 10 years of focus on
massively multiplayer gaming and major game publishers. He was most recently
Vice President of Marketing and Product Development Worldwide at Curse Gaming.
He has also served as Senior Manager, Community & Customer Service at GameSpot
(CNET Networks), and has held marketing positions at Ubisoft Entertainment and
Sony Computer Entertainment America. His expertise includes product design and
implementation, business development, Web 2.0, social networking, and
marketing.
On the personal gaming side, Buckmaster has heavy MMO experience across
genres, including leading and organizing numerous successful guilds and
organizations throughout games, including EverQuest, Shadowbane, and World of
Warcraft. He has been involved with professional gaming for 12 years, most
recently managing a world champion Battlefield series team, and was also a
founder and member of the first professional gaming team for Quake.
"Kurtis has an extraordinary mix of talent, passion and professional
experience that adds a new dimension to our team's wealth of online gaming
expertise. He has credibility as a gamer as well as respect as a marketing
leader, lending him the ability to drive and innovate product features and
user experience to the benefit of gamers and our publishing partners," said
Andrew Schneider, president of Live Gamer.
At Live Gamer, Buckmaster is responsible for driving improvements and
additions to the Live Gamer Exchange, working closely with customers,
prospects, partners, and other constituents on product implementations, and
managing community relations.
About Live Gamer
Live Gamer is the leading provider for publisher-supported virtual item
trading. Live Gamer's Wall Street-developed platform combined with Sony Online
Entertainment's Station Exchange technology is trusted by top publishers
worldwide and offers a turnkey solution for MMOG and virtual world operators
to provide legitimate real money trading of virtual assets within their titles
or via the Web, facilitating a safe and fair online environment for all
participants. Based in New York, NY, the company was founded by industry
veterans and backed with $24 million in venture funding from Charles River
Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, and Pequot Ventures.
(http://www.livegamer.com)
SOURCE Live Gamer
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