Biography

Nathan Solomon leads the Philadelphia Game Lab, a physical nexus for game creation and learning in Philadelphia. Until recently, he was CEO of superfluid, a virtual currency provider implementing complementary currency principals in an IRS-compliant system. superfluid won the 2011 RHD award for Best Implementation of Virtual Currency for Social Good. Prior to this, Nathan was a consultant dealing with innovative game industry business and distribution models and co-founder of a technology company in New Orleans called GameFlood, dedicated to in-game sale of assets. For several years he headed business development as VP of Business Development at Electronics Boutique, and negotiated a variety of non-traditional digital distribution and transaction scenarios in games. He oversaw the first streamed rental of triple-A game titles and first major US initiative marketing point of sale activated cards for online game content, as well as mobile and location-based distribution. Before entering the game industry, he was CTO and Executive Producer at national online ad agencies.