Time: Wednesday, November 3, 6-8 pm
Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122
Please join us for discussion with Tom Frisina, Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners who will discuss aspects of games, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Joining EA in 1997 as Vice President of EA’s affiliated label business, then called EA Distribution, Frisina has worked on such titles as Battlefield 1942, Black and White 2, SSX Tricky, Madden NFL 2002, and The Simpsons: Road Rage. He was chartered with taking EAD from a distribution business into a world class third party interactive publisher and was responsible for bringing the Bond, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Valve Half-Life Distribution, Lord of the Rings, and Crysis franchises to EA. EA Partners today continues in this pursuit of nurturing and capturing other developers‚ creativity, adding these valuable commodities to EA’s growing list of franchise assets. As General Manager of this combined Studio and Business Development Group, he has the opportunity to affect both business deal structures and product quality in the most unique manner within all of EA. Through June of 2006, EA Partners has delivered 27 titles on a variety of hand-held, console, PC and large, multi-player based content connections.