Portman Wills

CTO & Co-Founder at Wagestream

Portman Wills is the current CTO and co-founder of Wagestream. Prior to Wagestream, Portman was the Chief Data Officer at Sports Illustrated Play from December 2015 to January 2018. Sports Illustrated Play was founded in 2015 to simplify & celebrate the world of Youth Sports. SI Play powered over 10MM youth athletes and their families and was acquired by NBC/Comcast in December 2017.

From November 2011 to November 2015, Portman was the Chief Information Officer at GSN (TV & Games). GSN Games is the only game company with two apps in the top-10 grossing from 2012-2015. Bingo Bash and GSN Casino have together entertained a global audience of 160MM players.

Prior to GSN, Portman was the co-founder and CTO of SocialCash from April 2008 to March 2009. SocialCash was a venture-backed startup that provided advertising and analytics to Facebook app developers and was acquired by LifeStreet Media in March 2009.

From February 2006 to March 2008, Portman served as Vice President of Engineering at Gratis Internet. From June 2004 to January 2006, Portman served as Chief Architect at Voxiva. And from May 2003 to May 2004, Portman served as Chief Technology Officer at Digital Divide Data.

Portman Wills attended the University of Virginia, where they studied mathematics, economics, and computer science. Portman also attended high school at TASIS England.

Their manager is Peter Briffett, CEO & Co-Founder. Some of their coworkers include Dave Kirby - VP, Global Delivery, Alex Firth - VP, Global Head of Legal, and Diego Cerutti - Chief Data Officer. A direct report to Portman Wills is and Nick Rogers - VP, Engineering.

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Previous companies

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Work style

How I prefer to work

Remote & Office

Morning

Mostly in a team

Qualities I value in my colleagues

  • Bias toward action
  • sense of humor
  • empathy

Timeline

  • CTO & Co-Founder

    Current role

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