Andrew Friedman

Andrew founded Bitwreck in 2002 and serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. He is a digital media and entertainment industry expert more than a dozen years of experience. He provides Bitwreck's clients with deep expertise in product development, technology and project management and strategic planning.

Andrew's previous experience is in designing and building server-side systems for online gaming. He has worked extensively developing and maintaining large-scale, high-volume software and hardware infrastructures.

Prior to founding Bitwreck, he served as Vice President of Software Development for Unplugged Games. While there, he designed and led development of MobileStage, a technology framework for multiplayer games on Internet-enabled wireless devices.

Previously, he was Director of Product Development for Uproar (now owned by Vivendi Universal). In that role, he manage development of all major game efforts for Uproar's network of Internet games, serving more than 10 million unique users each month. He has also served as Director of Technology for the online game developer Bottle Rocket, where he oversaw the development of core technology systems and more than two dozen games for clients including Electronic Arts, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, HBO, and MTV.

Andrew has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College where he graduated cum laude and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School.