Thibault founded the Startup Societies Foundation in 2015, a nonprofit which studies and promotes Special Economic Zones and new city projects. He is on the board of advisors of the Center for Innovative Governance Research, and has worked at several startups in the cybersecurity, hardware, and blockchain fields.
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Mr. Selzer founded Resonate Blends in October of 2018 and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Prior to Resonate, Mr. Selzer was a consultant to New American Blends, a medicinal cannabis company, where he helped to rebrand, formulate and source product, organize development and create long term strategic plans.
Mr. Selzer was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Luminous Publishing, a company dedicated to creating a new genre of media-rich products originally designed for tablet computers including a core curriculum initiative funded by Pearson, the largest educational publisher in the world. Prior to Luminous, as CEO & Chairman of the Board of Emergent Game Technologies, Mr. Selzer took this startup from pre-revenue to the number two game middleware business in the world. Mr. Selzer served as Vice President Creative Development and Production for the Disney Interactive Division where he built, managed, and created the vision for a profitable $125M+ annual revenue business and managed a group of more than 100 professionals responsible for the design, development and production of interactive software titles. Prior to his work in media, Mr. Selzer enjoyed a successful investment banking career with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. He began his undergraduate studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for 2 years and then graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Mr. Selzer completed his graduate work at Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business.
