About Social Gold

Social Gold is a full feature virtual economy platform that developers can use to create their currency systems, monetize it using in-game payments by Social Gold, and manage and grow their economy using Social Gold virtual economy analytics. Social Gold was founded by veterans from Amazon.com -- people who built the foundational infrastructure for their e-commerce and web services, and who had gone on to build some of the most popular social games.

Vikas Gupta, Jambool

Vikas Gupta

Co-founder and CEO (LinkedIn Profile)

Vikas focuses on product vision, business development, marketing and development.

Vikas spent several years at Amazon.com leading the Payments groups and Web services products -- building one of the busiest transaction processing systems in the world. Vikas was also the lead inventor for the Amazon's Flexible Payments Service product. In 2004 Vikas co-founded the Amazon.com's India office in Bangalore, and hired and led the engineering teams. Post Amazon, Vikas co-founded Jambool and built several popular applications on the Facebook platform -- all of which employed virtual economy elements and were the foundational pieces to Social Gold.

Reza Hussein, Jambool

Reza Hussein

Co-founder and CTO (LinkedIn Profile)

Reza focuses on the Social Gold platform, technology and leads the engineering team.

Reza is an 8 year veteran of Amazon.com building complex distributed systems. He led Amazon.com's customer order workflow team and built some of the most high-throughput workflow systems online today. Reza last worked on defining and building Amazon's Mechanical Turk product, as well as hired and led the engineering teams. Reza's expertise lies in building complex, high transaction systems with low tolerance for error rates. Reza was also the single hand behind building Jambool's social games that served millions of users every day with zero down time.

Reza Hussein, Jambool

Mike Haswell

VP, Business and Legal Affairs (LinkedIn Profile)

Mike leads business development, legal and sales for Social Gold.

Mike brings a stellar experience leading business development and legal at both large companies and Silicon Valley startups. Prior to Social Gold, Mike led all business development and legal affairs at SearchMe, Inc. Mike spent 9 years at Yahoo!, most recently as Sr. Director of Global Strategic Partnerships, cultivating and leading business relationships with Fortune 100 companies.