Engine Gaming and Media, Inc. announced the appointment of Gregory R. Raifman to its board of directors. Mr. Riafman will serve as an independent director and is expected to serve on the Company's Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance Committees. Mr. Raifman is a nearly four-decade, Internet industry veteran with a focus on Technology and Internet, Web Services and marketplaces, and data analysis and software platforms. Most recently, Mr. Raifman was President of Nexstar Digital, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Previously, Mr. Raifman was President and a member of the board of directors of Rubicon Project, Inc. While at Rubicon Project, Mr. Raifman served on several boards of directors, including the Mobile Marketing Association, IAB's Trustworthy Accountability Group [TAG] and Advertising Women of New York.  Before Rubicon, Mr. Raifman acted as the Executive Chairman of LiveRail, Inc., a video ad exchange and real-time bidding company based in San Francisco and helped management develop the strategy to pivot LiveRail from a video serving company to a video exchange that was ultimately acquired by Facebook for $500 million.

Additionally, Mr. Raifman founded Dragon Media Online, Inc., a performance-based online media company that owns “Careers.org”, one of the leading career advancement sites.  Prior to founding Dragon Media Online, Mr. Raifman founded and served as the Chairman, CEO & President of Mediaplex, Inc. Under his watch, Mediaplex developed from inception to a publicly traded global advertising technology company valued at over $4 billion in less than four years. Mediaplex eventually merged with ValueClick.  Prior to Mediaplex, Mr. Raifman founded PointBreak Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm that founded or invested in several internet pioneers, including GlobalCast, TimeShift, Internet Extra Corporation, MindSource, Sandpiper Networks, Good Technology, and The Internet Mall/SHOPNOW. Mr. Raifman received his A.B. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from The Georgetown University Law Center where he was Executive Editor of the International Law Review and published an article entitled The Effect of the US-Swiss Agreement on Swiss Banking Secrecy and Insider Trading 15 L. & Pol.

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