Jim Levy

Jim is a serial entrepreneur and an advisor to venture capital firms and early stage companies. He was the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Inc. (now Activision Blizzard), the world’s largest game software company. He created Activision in 1979 with a vision of building a software company that would be a leader in the creation, marketing and distribution of entertainment software for the rapidly-growing computer and video gaming audience. Under Jim’s leadership, Activision went public in 1973. Jim has also started or managed businesses in the packaged goods, publishing, direct marketing, music, broadcasting and Internet services industries, and has served as an advisor to, or director of, a number of start ups, venture capital firms, and those firms’ portfolio companies.