Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Chris McGill is the CEO and C-Founder of casual mobile games company Burlingame Studios (BGS). McGill has a history as a serial entrepreneur and holding top level roles in mass audience products. Prior to founding BGS McGill launched and served as SVP, GM of Design Home at Crowdstar/ Glu Mobile which generated more than $600M in revenue in its first four years and was the dominant product at Glu Mobile when Glu was acquired by Electronic Arts for $2.4BN. McGill also founded social media platform Mixx (acquired by UberMedia) and co-founded the data visualization platform Zoomdata (acquired by Logi Analytics). McGill held the positions of the VP of Strategy of USA Today as well as SVP of UberMedia. He served as a General Manager of Yahoo! News and Information, which included Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Education and Yahoo!'s kids offering Yahooligans, building the platform from scratch and making it the most viewed news source in the free world. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he worked in brand management/ marketing for the Clorox Company and served as Assistant Vice President at Bank of Boston. Chris holds an MBA from Duke University.