About Us

Mark Herrmann
Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining GameLogic in October 2001, Mark Herrmann was the Vice President, Direct Marketing and General Manager of Games at TerraLycos, SA, a global Internet company operating in 41 countries in 20 languages.

Previously, Mr. Herrmann was the Vice President, Product & Operations of Gamesville. While at Gamesville, he directed marketing and awareness campaigns that established Gamesville as the most popular games site on the Internet.

Before joining Gamesville, Mr. Herrmann was the Director of Interactive Marketing at The Phoenix Media/Communication Group, a multimedia company with interests in newspaper publishing, broadcasting, and audio-text services.

Mr. Herrmann holds an MBA and an MS in Communication from Boston University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont.

Dow Hardy
Senior Vice President, Technology

Prior to joining GameLogic, Dow Hardy was the Vice President, US Operations for TerraLycos, SA, a global Internet company operating in 41 countries in 20 languages. In this role, he directed online operations and Quality Assurance for all Lycos Network properties.

Previously, Mr. Hardy was the Director of Engineering Operations of Gamesville, managing the design, integration and operation of the website and corporate infrastructures.

Earlier, Mr. Hardy was a Product Line Manager at M/A-Com and Program Manager at Draper Laboratory.

Mr. Hardy holds a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael Lightman
Vice President, Sales

Michael Lightman has more than 15 years in gaming and managed IT services, as well as broad experience in sales, corporate development and product marketing.

Before joining GameLogic, Mr. Lightman was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at CRC, Inc., a managed IT services holding company focusing on messaging and supply chain solutions. In this role, he served as General Manager of CRC's hosted messaging business unit, and led the sales and corporate development efforts for three of CRC's portfolio businesses.

Prior to CRC, Mr. Lightman was Vice President, Marketing at Transcentive, Inc., a leading provider of equity compensation technology and solutions.

Mr. Lightman has also spent more than nine years at GTECH Corporation, a worldwide provider of gaming systems and services to the Lottery and Casino industries. He co-founded GTECH's gaming and entertainment subsidiary, and served as its Vice President, Operations.

Mr. Lightman holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University and a BS in Computer Science from Union College.

Matthew S. Ross
Vice President, Corporate Development & General Manager, PlayAway

Matthew Ross has 10 years of experience in gaming and interactive entertainment with a focus on corporate and product development, client relationship management and online marketing.

Before joining GameLogic, Mr. Ross was CEO of Sweepstakes.com. He also held marketing and product development positions with Gamesville.com and later Terra Lycos, which acquired the innovative online games company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ross held account executive positions for political communications and public relations agencies in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, DC.

Mr. Ross holds an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Scott N. Weller
Vice President, Product Development

As one of the senior architects of the PlayAway platform, Scott Weller has spent the past 5 years implementing innovative technology platforms for land-based casinos and state lotteries, by combining traditional marketing methods with gaming, social media and web technology.

Scott has over 10+ years experience developing and deploying internet applications and systems. Previous to GameLogic, Mr. Weller was a senior technologist at Gamesville.com and later Terra Lycos, which acquired the online games and interactive marketing company. Previous to that, he was a systems programmer for Intelecom Data Systems, one of first internet service providers in the U.S.

Mr. Weller holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island.

Sam Ziba
Vice President, Finance

Sam Ziba is an experienced senior leader with extensive financial and operations experience. Prior to joining GameLogic in July 2001, Mr. Ziba was the Senior Director of Operational Planning at TerraLycos, SA, a Global Internet Company operating in 41 countries.

Previously, Mr. Ziba was the Director of Finance at Gamesville, where he was responsible for directing the company's financial plans and programs.

Before joining Gamesville, Mr. Ziba was an Accounting Officer and Assistant Vice President at Grove Bank, which was sold to Citizens Bank. He also held Controller positions at Adesa, a large auto auction company and Professional Development Group, a start-up company. He began his career at BDO Seidman as an Auditor, and received his license to practice as a CPA in 1991.

Mr. Ziba holds a BS in Accounting from Northeastern University.

Steven N. Kane
Founder; CEO, 2002 to 2007

Steven Kane is a technology investor and entrepreneur. Most recently he was Founder of GameLogic, where he served as Chairman and CEO from 2002-2007.

Previously, Steven was Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of pioneering Internet casual games, technology and database marketing concern Gamesville, from its 1994 inception until its November 1999 acquisition by Lycos, Inc. for $232 million. Gamesville was regularly amongst the largest circulation web sites of any kind of its time, and was by far the largest, most popular and successful Internet games site of the initial Internet era, well known for its unique, massively-multiplayer, real-time technologies and games. In addition, Gamesville was widely heralded for its groundbreaking, non-game technology and product innovations — for creating entirely new media platforms, products and business models which, in real-time, deployed massive-scale, closed-loop, target marketing, data mining and advertising engines, as well as groundbreaking permission-based systems for consumer profiling, lead generation and media insertion.

Prior to Gamesville, Steven was CEO of Elkay Products, the global developer of precision life-science laboratory consumables and liquid handling systems. One of the largest private-label suppliers of laboratory products to global healthcare concerns such as Baxter International and Fisher Scientific, Elkay was acquired by CIT Group in April 1995, and is now part of the Kendall division of Tyco International.

Steven is currently a Director of new-media content and marketing platform developer Pangea Media of Watertown, Massachusetts, and next-generation casino gaming systems developer Acres-Fiore Gaming of Las Vegas, Nevada. Previously he was a founding Director of Leader Bank, N.A. of Arlington, Massachusetts as well as several other firms. Steven is also currently a Trustee of the Joslin Diabetes Center, and an Overseer of the Institute for Contemporary Art and Huntington Theater Company, all of Boston, Massachusetts. He holds a B.F.A., from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.