Ed Fries
Ed Fries created his first video games for the Atari 800 in the early 1980s. He joined Microsoft in 1986, and spent the next ten years as one of the founding developers of both Excel and Word. He left the Office team to pursue his passion for interactive entertainment and created Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years he grew the team from 50 people to over 1200, published more than 100 games including more than a dozen million+ sellers, co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the interactive entertainment business. In 2004, Ed retired from his Microsoft Vice President job to continue his work in the video game business as board member, advisor and consultant to a broad range of publishers, independent game developers, and media companies. In 2007 Ed launched his own startup, FigurePrints, an innovative company that uses 3D color printing technology to bring video game characters to life. In the summer of 2010 Ed released “Halo 2600″, a “demake” of the Halo video game series for the Atari 2600.
Dov Schwell
Dov Schwell has served on the advisory board of Omek since 2008. Dov has been a practicing attorney since 1991, with his practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and general corporate and transactional law. Since its formation in April 2010, Dov has served as managing partner of Schwell, Wimpfheimer & Associates LLP (formerly known as Outside Counsel Solutions LLP), a full service law firm with offices in New York, New York and Jerusalem, Israel. From December 2007 through October 2008 he served as Senior Vice President – Legal of IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT). Prior to September 2004, he served as a partner at the New York Office of McDermott, Will & Emery. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Windtamer Corporation (OTCBB: WNDT). Dov received a B.A. in Computer Science from Yeshiva University in 1988 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1991.