Alan Gershenfeld

Alan Gershenfeld

Co-Founder & President, E-Line Media

Alan Gershenfeld is Co-Founder/President of E-Line Media, a developer of commercial social impact video games. E-Line titles include the BAFTA and Peabody award winning Never Alone, Beyond Blue, Gamestar Mechanic and MinecraftEdu. Alan has worked on impact game projects with the Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, NSF, BBC, USAID, DARPA, White House OSTP, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Google and others. ‎

Prior to E-Line, Alan was Chairman of the nonprofit Games for Change and SVP Activision Studios where he oversaw titles such as Civilization: Call to Power, Muppet Treasure Island, Spycraft, Pitfall, Zork and Tony Hawk Skateboarding. Alan has published articles and books on technology, media and social impact in Scientific American, Education Week, Huffington Post, Slate, Politico, Marketwatch and Knowledge Quest. He is co-author of Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the 3rd Digital Revolution. Alan has served on the Board of FilmAid International and Impact Guild, Advisory Boards for iCivics and Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. He is also Co-Founder of Experimental Design, a leading world building design agency.