Team

Uprising Labs is made up of blockchain natives and game industry veterans with experience from Mantle, Oasys, Nervos, Gamestop Web3, Forthright Entertainment, Sony PlayStation, Activision Blizzard, Kabam and more.

Collectively, they have published over 90 games, developed and launched 75+ titles, and contributed to the launch of more than three layer two blockchains.

Eric Vander Wal

CEO & Co-founder

VP Ecosystem @ Oasys L1; Ex-Head of Product at Mantle, Ex-Director of Developer Relations @ Nervos L1, launched 3+ L2 EVM blockchains, Ex-Game Dev, 25+ years experience.

Ryan Waller

Chief Growth Officer & Co-founder

Founder of Forthright Entertainment. 20+ years in the game publishing industry with more than 90 titles published to console, PC, and mobile

Rudy De La Cruz, MBA

Chief Strategy Officer

General Partner @ BasedVC & Citizen Capital

Founder of $100M+ company

Mike Wallis

Head of Product

Director of Product Mgt @ Playstation Studios (Helldivers 2), Ex-Director of Product at Activision Blizzard (Diablo), Experience with titles such as Lord of the Rings, Eve Online and more, 30+ years experience

Joon Yoon

Head of Token Economics

Ph.D Economics from Stanford University; Building game economies @ The Sandbox. Ex-Game economy @ Nexon

Bennett Kearney

Head of Community

Spaces host of the "Weekly Wrap Up. Former Web3 partnerships & strategy @ Whalar

Nate Smith

Lead Web3 Business Development

Ex-partnerships @ GameStop; BD @ Coinbase Cloud

Mark Mundy

Growth Marketing Manager

Educator and number cruncher, driving Q&A and community