Justin Beckett
| Justin Beckett | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 5, 1963 Boston, MA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | BA |
| Alma mater | Duke University |
| Occupation | Chief Executive Officer |
| Employer | Founder & CEO, Engage Play Technologies |
| Website | www.engageplay.com |
Justin Beckett is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and author. He is founder and chief executive officer of Engage Play Technologies.
After graduating from college in 1985, Justin Beckett joined the Pension Consulting division of investment banking firm E.F. Hutton. In 1986, Justin Beckett became the first employee at Sloan Financial Group, a diversified asset management firm, where he was a principal executive at subsidiaries, NCM Capital Management and New Africa Advisers.
After leaving the investment management industry in 2000, Beckett founded and was CEO of Music Gaming, Inc. Music Gaming was an Internet based music related gaming destination that built the Internet's largest annotated music trivia database. Funding for the venture was provided by VIZX Corporation and in 2001, Music Gaming, Inc. was sold to Intermix Media/MySpace.
In 2002, while a member of the Intermix Media/MySpace executive team, Beckett re-purposed the Music Gaming, Inc software platform and co-founded SkillJam Technologies. SkillJam Technologies received approximately $2 million in growth capital from Intermix Media/MySpace and became the leading skill based gaming website destination. SkillJam developed partnerships with a broad network of popular entertainment brands including AOL, MSN, MySpace, PopCap Games and Disney.
In 2004, Intermix Media/MySpace sold SkillJam Technologies to FUN Technologies, a diversified online gaming and entertainment company which in turn became a subsidiary of Liberty Media in 2006.
In 2004, Beckett founded Fluid Music, (since renamed Mood Media) one of the world's largest distributors and aggregators of independent music.
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