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Adi Sideman is the Chief Executive Officer of Revel.xyz and the Co-Founder and CEO (Open Props Inc.) of Props.

As a developer, Sideman produced the first animated ads on AOL and founded Squeeze, a web development venture that provided services to Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Con Edison. He also produced more than 30 online games for major-studio film and TV franchises. In 1999, he founded the interactive marketing firm Oddcast, which continues to develop such groundbreaking apps as “Elf Yourself.” In 2005 he co-founded KSolo, the first online karaoke service (acquired by Fox Interactive/MySpace), and, in 2006, co-founded the audio ad network TargetSpot, a joint venture with CBS (acquired by Radionomy).

Sideman is a member of the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts and Sciences and was named one of 2015’s top 100 most influential and inspiring people in NYC tech by Business Insider. He holds an MPS degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an undergraduate degree from NYU Film School.