Jake founded Magellan Interactive with the goal of bringing active learning, interactive dialog and the immersive power of video games to foreign language learning. Prior to founding Magellan Interactive, Jake spent five years with Andersen’s Business Consulting group, and later served as a senior manager and consultant for Centocor, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson. Jake’s background includes software development, educational multimedia, Business-to-Business e-commerce, IT management and systems design. Jake earned a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Joshua is a game designer and programmer with extensive experience as a consultant for Gamelab, Wellspring Technologies and Telepop. In 2004, Joshua founded his own independent game design studio, SortaSoft, which has since released the games Funky Farm and Retro Records. Joshua is also a jazz saxophonist and received a BA in Jazz Performance from Western Connecticut State University.

Christophe is a French artist with extensive digital game, multimedia and web design experience. Prior to his endeavors in digital games, Christophe worked as a project manager for Alphamosa (whose clients included Apple France and Apple Europe), at Time Code Productions in advertising and communication, and as a multimedia artist and web designer for Carbone 14 and Meninges Multimedia. In 2002, Christophe launched Frogames, a freelance game art and design studio specializing in the creation of 3D characters and objects, user interfaces, navigation ergonomics, and marketing and promotion. Christophe has worked on several commercial projects including Space Invaders Shockwave, TLJ, New Year Balloons (flash), Torque Lighting Kit (middleware), Minions of Mirth (3D RPG), Dungeon Pack (art pack), Air Ace, Twin Tennis, Shelled!, Call of Duty, MiniOne Racing, RTS pack: Humans & Orcs (art pack) and The Game Programmer's Guide to Torque (book). Christophe also developed his own website to sell art elements (www.frogames.net) to professional video game developers. Christophe has served in the French Army and studied history and mathematics at the University of Reims. Christophe recently won 1st prize in the 2007 Intel Game Demo Contest.

Kristen is a freelance copywriter, brand strategist and marketing consultant based in New York City. Before joining Magellan Interactive, she collaborated with a motley crew of start-ups, small businesses and Mar/Comm teams to help create compelling brand stories, razor-sharp positioning statements and content-driven product narratives. She’s been the lead copywriter on a wide range of marketing materials, including corporate websites, viral microsites, sales collateral, promotional pieces and “Next Gen” branding concepts. Over the years, she’s also done a lot of editorial writing on emerging cultural and consumer trends, spilling most of her ink on 20something market movements, New Media and entertainment, generational dynamics, fashion, sustainability and Marketing 2.0. Kristen received her BA in English from Northwestern University.

Phillip is a PhD candidate in Latin American Literature at Columbia University. He teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American language, cultures and literature, and has traveled extensively throughout the Americas and Spain. Phillip is currently writing his dissertation on authority and resistance in contemporary Latin American literature and film. Phillip earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Ohio Wesleyan University, as well as an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Philosophy in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature from Columbia.

For more than eleven years, Magnus has worked as a game designer and artist for Camelot Hobbies, JacZone, NFusion, Red Thumb Games, Prairie Games and his own independent game studio, WIT Entertainment. Magnus' skills include 3D modeling, animation, 2D art/texturing, level design, game design and programming. He is an expert in 3D studio max (and Maxscript), Character Studio and Photoshop. He has worked on numerous games including Elite Warriors Vietnam, Sploidz and Minions of Mirth.