CRAIG ALLEN

Craig Allen, CEO of Spark Unlimited, brings significant experience in the entertainment and interactive gaming fields to the Funk Ventures advisory board, which he joined in 2004.

Mr. Allen, known by his peers as one of the most dynamic and open-minded visionaries in the field, was formerly the Executive Vice President of Jim Henson Interactive, where he was the primary creative architect behind The Jim Henson Company’s expanded digital media activities. He also spent six years at Disney Interactive focusing primarily on video games based on the company’s popular film and television properties and contributed to global corporate strategy as it related to the game industry.

As CEO of Spark Unlimited, Mr. Allen currently manages a development crew of 65 individuals who have primarily developed titles in the award winning Medal of Honor™ series. Spark has a multi-year, multi-title production deal to develop console games with video game giant Activision and is currently finalizing development of Call of Duty: Finest Hour™, the latest installment in the award winning Call of Duty™ series due to be released on XBOX and Playstation 2 and highly anticipated to be one of the top-rated games in 2004.