J. Todd Bonner

Todd Bonner serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for NextPlay Technologies. Prior to the merger with Monaker Group, Bonner co-founded and served as a Director of both HotPlay, an in-game advertising platform, and HotPlay Thailand. Previously Bonner was a member of the Board of Directors of Axion Ventures Inc, an online video gaming and technology company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, which he co-founded in 2016. During that time, he started True Axion Interactive, a game studio formed via a joint venture with True Corporation, a major Thai telecommunication company, in 2017. In 2012, he co-founded Red Anchor Trading Corporation as an incubator for developing applications and predictive algorithms based on crowdsourced data. Bonner founded independent AAA games studio Axion Games, formerly Epic Games China, in 2006. In 2003, he founded Northstar Pacific Partners, an Indonesia Merchant Bank, and served as Partner until 2005. Bonner co-founded Pacific Century CyberWorks in 2000, where he served as the company’s Japan-based CEO from 2001 to 2003. During that time, he raised $2.4 billion to acquire Hong Kong Telecom, which remains one of the largest acquisitions in Asian history. Bonner began his career as an analyst and investment banker at Alex, Brown & Sons. Bonner currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Longroot Cayman. Mr. Bonner graduated from Stanford University in June 1989 with a degree in Biology and Biomedical Sciences.