The Beefy Media Team
Adam Boyes, President
Adam Boyes is a 15 year game industry veteran who has specialized in Production and Business Development. He has held positions such as Executive Producer at Midway and most recently he ran the Product Development group at Capcom US. At the helm, he delivered the most successful digital games initiative of the industry. Adam has founded Beefy Media to fill a hole in the video gaming industry – to build strategic visions for brands, IP holders, publishers, and developers. Once the vision is built, his team goes to work to oversee the entire production process of building the content and getting it метро Казани to market on mobile, social, and console platforms.
Mobile: 510-305-2244
Tim Lewinson, Executive Producer
With 17 years of software development experience for videogame consoles and business software, Tim has an enviable track record of big-selling, award-winning, high Metacritic AAA titles with significant keystone development on each. In previous stints as creative director and founding partner of Massive Bear Studios, senior designer for Disney Interactive Studios and online producer at Relic Entertainment, his extensive genre knowledge and experience in 3rd Person Action, First Person Action, Real-Time Strategy and Sports titles has been instrumental in creating worlds that engage and thrill gamers worldwide. A highly motivated leader with expertise in strategic vision, mechanical and holistic gameplay design, certified Scrum methodology and process, project planning and design, people management, new product conceptualization, pitch direction and delivery, and overall creative direction – Tim is proud to be part of the Beefy Media team..
Robby Zinchak, Producer
Robby Zinchak was most recently a Producer in the Microsoft XBLA first party publishing team and has also led game creation at Capcom and Midway. He has a long history with games: he wrote his first one 17 years ago on a cutting edge 16-color PC. Since then, he has continued to create games – and while their scope has increased, he still retains that same pioneering spirit. Robby possesses a successful track record of releasing high quality digital titles that delight consumers. He fluently speaks the language of developers, combining technical expertise with creative passion.
Mobile: 916-877-6229
Dominic Provenzano, Assistant Producer
Mobile: 989-714-7668
Michele Melendez, Account Manager
Mobile: 818-384-1893
Jennifer Boyes, Partnership Director
Mobile: 510-461-3395
Akanu Franks, Executive Producer
Akanu Franks has been working in software development since 1993, and in the business of developing games since 2002. Throughout the 1990s, Akanu partnered in several technical development enterprises from banking to CRM, all the while daydreaming of how cool it would be to work in the games industry. After working with boutique game developers, Akanu moved to EA Black Box, holding producer and development director positions on some of EA’s most successful franchises. As EA’s program manager, Akanu was the voice of a community of 200 managers, responsible for 1800 employees in EA’s largest studio. Despite all that big-sounding stuff, his heart remains in the trenches with the dev team.