SZUPERCHESS ACQUIRED BY CHECKMATE

EXECUTIVE TEAM

John McRae

Founder

  • Entertainment, Esports, Sports, PPV and Linear broadcast promoter

  • Founder Duco Events, SKY ARENA, LPL

  • 2018 NZ Marketing Magazine Media Visionary of the Year

  • 2009 NZ Marketing Magazine TV Event of the Decade

  • Founder and Life Member,
    New Zealand Esports Federation and Oceania Esports Council

Curt Jones

Founder

  • Executive Producer - Fox Sports, NRL Media

  • Chief of Staff, Fox Sports News

  • Sports Editor, TV3 New Zealand, ESPN USA

  • 20+ years experience in Sports Media

Jamie Skella

Founder

  • Founding Partner, Polybit

  • Chief Product Officer - Mogul 

  • Head of UX - AFL and Tatts Group

  • Owner, GG EZ Bar [Esports Bar]

  • World Economic Forum Pioneer Technology Award Winner [Blockchain]

Brenda Saveluc

General Consul

  • Founder, Blackgold Legal

  • Expertise. ICO, NFT and STO regulation

  • Expertise,  Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency

  • Commercial and Corporate M&A

Ken O’Shea

Governance

  • Partner - Lockhart O'Shea Chartered Accountants

  • Chief Financial Officer, First Capital of Switzerland Limited, Dubai

  • Executive Director, Finance and Operations, Waqf Trust Services

  • Deputy CEO, Hamilton Trust Company, Bermuda

SQUAD

Dimitri Darsch

Game Designer

  • Game Economy and Monetization Designer

  • Knight Watch iOS + iWatch Chess Game

  • Pyrojump, Battle Royale Tycoon, Eredan

  • RPG , Social & Collectible Card Game Design

Joan Buch Prades

AI and Chess

  • Artificial Intelligence and Neuromarketing thought leader

  • Former competitive chess player

  • CEO & Founder, Decoditive

  • CEO & Founder, Szuperchess

Rodrigo Nascimento

AI and XR 

  • XR developer, 3D artist, and AI

  • Ai x XR Thought leader

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Scott Adams

Intergrity and Payments

  • CEO, CNPMentors

  • Consultant, Fraud and Payments, Epic Games

  • Director of Risk Management, Riot Games

  • Vice President of Friendly Fraud

  • CEO and Founder. FraudPVP

ADVISORS

Indy Khabra

Advertising and Strategy

  • CEO and co-founder, Livewire

  • Campaign Asia 40 under 40

  • Dentsu Programmatic, ANZ Managing Director

  • Executive Director, Amplifi

Anurag Khurana

Gaming and Esports

  • Founder & CEO , Newgen Gaming

  • Country Manager, Riot Games India

  • Head of Esports, Reliance Jio

  • CEO, Red Octane

Brad Manuel

Sponsorship and Strategy

  • CEO and co-founder, Livewire

  • CEO/COO Misfit Gaming

  • BDM and Esports Lead, AFL Adelaide Crows

Michael Cam-Phung

VC and Capital Advisor

  • Chief Strategy Officer, SEISA

  • Director, INDOCHINO

  • Principal, Highland Consumer Partners

OFFICIAL CLOUD PARTNER

Tencent Cloud International

Tencent Cloud, one of the world's leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries.

Through its extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT and network security.

Its constant mission is to meet the needs of industries across the board, including the fields of gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel and transportation.

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INTEGRITY PARTNERS

Szuperchess

Szuperchess is the first real and effective solution to combat online cheating in Chess. Billed as Zoom adapted to Chess tournaments, its innovative AI and computer vision-based approach to cheating utilises a player's web camera to monitor match integrity. Since launching in 2020, it has been nominated for a number of European Startup and technology awards.

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Asian Chess Federation

The Asian Chess Federation, commonly known by the acronym ACF, is the international governing body of chess across the Asian Continent. Its membership comprises of 53 national associations across Asia, the Middle East and Oceania.

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Arab Esports Federation

Founded in 2017 to emulate the Arab Olympic Federation, the Arab Esport Federation consists of 18 countries across the Middle East and Gulf countries.

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Integrity Partner 

ESIC provides oversight of Checkmate Integrity and Fairplay Policy in conjunction with the Asian Chess Federation.

The Mission of ESIC is to be the recognised guardian of the integrity of esports and to take responsibility for disruption, prevention, investigation and prosecution of all forms of cheating, including, but not limited to, match manipulation and doping.

ESIC exists to unite the industry under the shared values and visions essential to fight against corruption in any form. These values form the basis of the ESIC Program of Integrity measures.

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COMMERCIAL PARTNERS

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Agency and Brand Representation

Livewrire represents Checkmates online and broadcast assets to Agencies and Brands. Livewire is a global gaming marketing & gametech company that creates integrated gaming marketing strategies, using their experience with gaming publishers, talent, digital platforms and emerging technology to design campaigns and deliver solutions that add value. As the leading gaming & esports ecosystem expert and trusted partner to brands, Livewire helps with entry and strategy across web2/web3 in gaming marketing, delivering evergreen solutions where data informs content, improving performance and engagement

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Executive Production 

VADR is an executive production firm that produces and promotes new media, sports and entertainment. VADR has been at the forefront of developing events and content for free-to-air, cable, pay-per-view, OTT and online platforms since 2005.

Our journey in esports began in 2015 when we launched LPL and subsequently grew it into Australia and New Zealand’s largest linear and online esports broadcaster and tournament platform. We are proud to have promoted and managed projects with our partners and clients in Australia, Bahrain, China, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait , New Zealand, Oman and the United States.

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