“LILA” is a variant of the Semitic Hebrew word for “night”. It means night, beauty, or our favorite meaning of the word: dark beauty.
At LILA Games, we don’t see color.
Company
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Avinash Pandey
CTO -
Devarshi Rudrakar
Feature Designer -
Joseph Kim
CEO -
Mihir Chawla
Feature Designer -
Paul Leydon
CCO -
Romin Shah
Game Developer -
Venkat Reddy
Game Developer

Avinash Pandey
CTO

Devarshi Rudrakar
Feature Designer
I am a Game Designer with a speciality in mechanics and level design. I aspire to entertain people and enjoy exploring different kinds of digital media.

Joseph Kim
CEO
Joseph Kim aka Joe Kim aka JK aka J Diggity aka Kimin8r aka J Money aka J Flo serves as CEO of LILA Games.
Former SVP of Games & Digital Platforms at NBCUniversal, Chief Product Officer at SEGA, and Studio Lead at FunPlus leading the studio and overall development on King of Avalon.
Podcaster and newsletter contributor on Deconstructor of Fun and Youtuber on GameMakers.

Mihir Chawla
Feature Designer
Mihir loves designing games which provide a good experience to the players. He is passionate about learning new things and is always up for new challenges. He likes to play PUBG and CODM in his free time. He loves buying, well mostly stalking hype sneakers online.

Paul Leydon
CCO
Paul is Chief Creative Officer for LILA Games.
Paul formerly worked at MZ on a number of top grossing games including Game of War.
He joined FunPlus and worked as a design lead on King of Avalon where he met Joseph Kim.
Paul later worked at a number of companies including SEGA Networks as Director of Design across SEGA’s Western mobile gaming portfolio.

Romin Shah
Game Developer
I am working in Lila Games as a Sr. Game Developer.
I am very passionate and enthusiastic for gaming technologies and I love programming and making high quality games.
I am from the computer Science background and I was placed in a gaming company from the college campus itself and started my career as a game developer right after my post graduation in 2015.
I have 6+ years of professional experience including leading, mentoring and training the development team on different aspects, project architecture designing, setting up the complete development pipeline for the companies and hands-on experience of successfully delivering more than 49 local and International projects.
During my career I have worked on both the UNITY and UNREAL game engine technologies. I have worked on different genres of games including Multiplayer cards/Casino games, board games, RPG, Shooting, Hyper Casual, Racing, Platformer, Online games, Interactive and E-learning apps/games for Android, IOS, Web and PC.
Apart from all these I am having a very good hands on experience in AR, VR, MR technologies and also worked on MOCAP, Facial Motion Capturing Technologies and Virtual Movie Production in Anibrain JV with Framestore using the advance real-time game engine technologies.
I like to explore new places, playing video games, surfing on net, catching up new tech updates and market research, watching news, series and movies, playing cricket, badminton, table tennis and other sports, painting, music, photography and social media handling.

Venkat Reddy
Game Developer
Venkat is a developer at LILA Games. He has helped multiple start-ups ship high quality games across different genres like casual, strategy, educational and board games. Venkat likes to play chess and Rocket League in his free time.
Advisors
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Hans Kim
Legal Counsel -
Kai Huang
Advisor -
Kristian Segerstrale
Investor & Strategy Advisor -
Mike Sherrill
Investor, Angel -
Paras Chopra
Advisor -
Tommy Krul
Technical Advisor

Kristian Segerstrale
Investor & Strategy Advisor
Kristian is CEO of Super Evil Megacorp the developers of the mobile MOBA Vain Glory and cross-platform MOBA shooter Catalyst Black. Previously, Kristian was CEO at Playfish, EVP at EA, co-founder at Glu Mobile and Board Member of Supercell.

Mike Sherrill
Investor, Angel
Co-Founded Machine Zone Inc. in 2007. Pitched an early idea to tech incubator Y-Combinator and was accepted into the winter ’08 batch by Paul Graham. Spent the last 13 years learning what users want in a mobile social game. In that time shipped over 17 mobile titles all of which reached the top of the charts.
In May 2020 we were acquired by AppLovin. It was a great 13 years at MZ but I’m just as excited to continue innovating in the mobile games space under the AppLovin umbrella.

Paras Chopra
Advisor
With a background in machine learning, Paras started Wingify in early 2009 to enable businesses design and deploy great customer experiences for their websites and apps. He’s a gold medalist from Delhi College of Engineering and has been featured twice in the Forbes 30 under 30 list – India and Asia.

Tommy Krul
Technical Advisor
Tommy Krul co-founded Super Evil Megacorp in 2012. Tommy is Chief Technology Officer and principal architect of the studio’s propriety game engine and technology. Super Evil Megacorp is a video game developer based in Bay Area that creates mobile games for competitive and core gamers. The company’s debut title, Vainglory, was featured on stage during Apple’s iPhone 6 keynote event, and featured in Apple’s 2018 iPhone X commercial “Unleash”. Currently, Super Evil is working on it’s new online multiplayer game, Catalyst Black.
Investors
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Jasper Brand
Investor, BITKRAFT -
Jens Hilgers
Investor, BITKRAFT -
Kristian Segerstrale
Investor & Strategy Advisor -
Ludovic Bodin
Investor, Angel -
Michael Fan
Investor, Galaxy Int. -
Mike Sherrill
Investor, Angel -
Richard Kim
Investor, Galaxy Int.

Jasper Brand
Investor, BITKRAFT
Jasper is an Associate at BITKRAFT Ventures where he identifies and evaluates new investment opportunities. Furthermore, he provides strategic and operational assistance to BITKRAFT portfolio companies while being a helping hand in their long-term positioning for growth. Jasper conducts market and segment deep-dives to develop investment hypotheses for the team.
Before joining BITKRAFT, Jasper gained experiences at Amundi Asset Management, a leading European asset manager, at BITKRAFT’s Seed Fund, and as an analyst at Lakestar, a successful European venture capital firm.
Jasper studied business administration and philosophy at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and Columbia University in the City of New York. Besides a history in traditional sports competing as a golfer on a national level in Germany, he has always been dedicated to esports since his early childhood, reaching the top percentiles of players across different major game titles.

Jens Hilgers
Investor, BITKRAFT
I am a serial entrepreneur with my primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build my first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 i’d consider myself a veteran in the Esports industry.
Building companies and making ideas become reality is what i really love. Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of my daily work. I am a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. I team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.
For 23 years now i have been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 i am actively investing in and supporting selected startups in the Games&Esports space, nowadays dominantly through my Venture Fund BITKRAFT Esports Ventures.
Many of the most innovative and leading assets in the Esports space have been founded or supported by myself: ESL – Largest Esports tournament production and marketing, BITKRAFT – worlds first and only Esports VC, BAYES (formerly DOJO Madness) – leading esports big data company, G2 Esports – Leading Western Esports Team, The Esports Observer – Largest Esports Business platform, runtime.gg – first performance nutrition brand in esports, epics.gg – first and leading digital trading card game in esports.
Specialties: Company building, Investment and Investment Portfolio Management, Definition and Iteration of Vision&Strategy for Business and Product, (International) Business Development and Deployment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Management and Execution, Fundraising, (Live) Presentations / Coachings.

Kristian Segerstrale
Investor & Strategy Advisor
Kristian is CEO of Super Evil Megacorp the developers of the mobile MOBA Vain Glory and cross-platform MOBA shooter Catalyst Black. Previously, Kristian was CEO at Playfish, EVP at EA, co-founder at Glu Mobile and Board Member of Supercell.

Ludovic Bodin
Investor, Angel
Ludovic Bodin is an entrepreneur, author, trainer, and investor. For two decades, more than 30 million people have enjoyed the products he co-created. He started and built multiple 7+ figure businesses, including a gaming company with 1.5 million fans.
Author of the soon to be published book “From Gamification to Revenuefication: Using the Secrets of Gaming to Scale Up Your Business,” Mr. Bodin empowers lifestyle entrepreneurs to large Fortune 500 companies from Europe, Asia, and America through his masterclass and coaching programs to Get Better Revenue.
Existing clients who have attended his live seminars and joined his inner circle include large companies from the Online Education, Entertainment and Automotive industries, Startup and Lifestyle Entrepreneur enjoying the Step by Step Revenuefication approach.

Michael Fan
Investor, Galaxy Int.
Zhong Liu Michael Fan is a Principal on the Galaxy Interactive team. He joined Galaxy Digital as Technical Consultant in February 2020, before joining the Venture team full time in April 2020. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of Blade Group, responsible for launching the Cloud Gaming service \”Shadow\” in the US. With more than 10 years of experience in high-tech, Michael served various roles, including Product Development, Business Development, Strategy and Sales, and worked with different international companies such as Orange (EMEA/Japan), Nufront (PRC), Softbank (Japan) or Conviva (NA/EMEA/LATAM/NEA).
Born in China and raised in France, Michael speaks French, Chinese and English. He is an alumnus of ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Mike Sherrill
Investor, Angel
Co-Founded Machine Zone Inc. in 2007. Pitched an early idea to tech incubator Y-Combinator and was accepted into the winter ’08 batch by Paul Graham. Spent the last 13 years learning what users want in a mobile social game. In that time shipped over 17 mobile titles all of which reached the top of the charts.
In May 2020 we were acquired by AppLovin. It was a great 13 years at MZ but I’m just as excited to continue innovating in the mobile games space under the AppLovin umbrella.

Richard Kim
Investor, Galaxy Int.
Richard Kim is a Partner on the Galaxy Interactive team. He joined Galaxy Digital as COO in May 2018, before joining the Venture team full time in January 2019. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18, where he also led the initiative to buildout a digital assets franchise around trading/custody in 2018. From 2010-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, a $3b/year franchise, and prior to that was a derivatives and regulation attorney in the Corporate & Investment Bank. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group, focusing on bankruptcy, derivatives and regulatory matters. He also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School teaching a course on the Dodd-Frank Act. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.