Playground Ventures Inc. announced the establishment of an advisory board with several key Industry leaders. Messrs. Ian Verchere, Ron Segev, Jay Balmer, Sheldon Inwentash, Ben Stoddard, Kenny Huang and Andrew Murphy have been appointed to the Company’s advisory board, to provide added expertise and guidance to the Company. Mr. Ian Verchere joins the advisory board with over 30-years of experience as a game industry creative and executive. Mr. Verchere passion for action-sports and socially competitive play on mobile led Mr. Verchere to build a stand-alone business unit in partnership with Red Bull Media House, which led to the founding of Session Games in 2016, where Mr. Verchere currently serves as CEO. Ron Segev is a founding partner of Segev LLP. Mr. Segev also has a wealth of private and public finance, M&A, commercial and other transaction experience and sits on several public company boards. Jay Balmer was recruited to the video game industry 17 years ago as a gameplay producer for SSX3. During Mr. Balmer’s time at Electronic Arts, Mr. Balmer created the revolutionary and patented gameplay controls for the award-winning Skate franchise, and was the vision holder for that team of 120 developers with a $40-million budget. Mr. Balmer would later join Microsoft as a Game Director to lead an incubation team with the task of envisioning the future opportunities in the evolving game market. Mr. Balmer is a co-founder of Session Games where Mr. Balmer currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer. Sheldon Inwentash is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ThreeD Capital Inc. Mr. Inwentash has more than 30 years of investing experience. He co-founded Visible Genetics, the first commercial pharmacogenomics company, in 1994 and exited in 2001 to Bayer. Ben Stoddard joins the advisory board as a veteran of the video game industry with over 15 years of experience. Prior to becoming the Chief Product Officer and Co-founder at Session Games, Mr. Stoddard specialized in character development, cinematics and authentic gameplay experiences for Electronic Arts and Roadhouse Interactive. Mr. Stoddard currently President of Canada Skateboard. Kenny Huang joins the advisory board with 19 years of experience in the software industry, including 15 years in the video game industry. Mr. Huang started his career programming the real time control systems for a high-tech deep-water submarine at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Mr. Huang would later join Electronic Arts on the rendering team before switching to product management. Currently Mr. Huang is the CEO of TinyRex Games and is a regular contributor at the Canadian Gaming Summit and has been exclusively invited to the US Power 25 Summit. Andrew Murphy entered the video game industry 20 years ago after a successful career as a professional snowboarder on the World Cup Boarder Cross tour winning two North American Series Championships. Currently, Mr. Murphy is the Chief Creative Officer at Session Games and on the board of advisors for Womaze.