Mark A. Jung was the founder and former

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IGN Entertainment ''IGN'' is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former e ...

and the networks of Snowball.com, running the company from January 1999 to November 2006. Previously, he was CEO of Worldtalk Corporation and also served as VP and General Manager at Retix. He is the younger brother of

Andrea Jung Andrea Jung (; born September 18, 1958) is a Canadian-American executive, non-profit leader, and prominent women's-issues supporter based in New York City. In April 2014, she became president and CEO of Grameen America, a nonprofit microfinance ...

. Jung graduated with a

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electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1981 after completing a 51-page long senior thesis titled "Measurement of the Contact Resistance of Screen-Printed Silver Metallization of N+ Silicon."

Career

As CEO of IGN Entertainment (formerly Snowball.com), a leading Internet media and services company for video gaming and other forms of digital entertainment, Jung took the company public in March 2000 and then private in August 2003. Jung led IGN's sale to

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, the parent company of

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in October 2005. When the company was acquired by NewsCorp, Jung served as

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of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), where he was responsible for all of its internet properties, including

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, IGN Entertainment, FoxSports.com, AmericanIdol.com, and Scout Media. Prior to joining IGN, Jung was the co-founder and CEO of Worldtalk Communications Corp., an

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company that he took public in 1996. He also served as VP and General Manager at Retix. Jung has served as board chairman for

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and as CEO of

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. He has also been a board member of the

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, beginning in 2006. In May 2012 he became one of the Board Member and advisor for

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. In March 2014 Jung became the CEO of

OnLive OnLive was a provider of cloud computing, cloud X86 virtualization, virtualization technologies based in Mountain View, California. OnLive's flagship product was its cloud gaming service, which allowed subscribers to rent or demo video games, com ...

which subsequently ceased operations after selling its patents to

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in April 2015.OnLive Brings On New Executive Chairman And Launches New Cloud Gaming Features
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References

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