Live Gamer Hires Gaming Vet, Kurtis Buckmaster, as VP Product Marketing

Former Pro Gamer Brings Deep MMOG and Marketing Experience to Executive Team

Live Gamer, the premier operator of a publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, has brought on gaming and marketing expert, Kurtis Buckmaster, as Vice President of Product Marketing. Buckmaster brings rich professional and personal gaming expertise to Live Gamer, including deep product marketing, promotions, and online community experience.

Buckmaster has 18 years experience developing cutting-edge online community experiences for gamers, with more than 10 years of focus on massively multiplayer gaming and major game publishers. He was most recently Vice President of Marketing and Product Development Worldwide at Curse Gaming. He has also served as Senior Manager, Community & Customer Service at GameSpot (CNET Networks), and has held marketing positions at Ubisoft Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment America. His expertise includes product design and implementation, business development, Web 2.0, social networking, and marketing

On the personal gaming side, Buckmaster has heavy MMO experience across genres, including leading and organizing numerous successful guilds and organizations throughout games, such as EverQuest, Shadowbane, and World of Warcraft. He has been involved with professional gaming for 12 years, most recently managing a world champion Battlefield series team, and was also a founder and member of the first professional gaming team for Quake.

“Kurtis has an extraordinary mix of talent, passion and professional experience that adds a new dimension to our team’s wealth of online gaming expertise. He has credibility as a gamer as well as respect as a marketing leader, lending him the ability to drive and innovate product features and user experience to the benefit of gamers and our publishing partners,” said Andrew Schneider, President of Live Gamer.

At Live Gamer, Buckmaster is responsible for driving improvements and additions to the Live Gamer Exchange, working closely with customers, prospects, partners, and other constituents on product implementations, and managing community relations.

About Live Gamer

Live Gamer is the global leader of total commerce solutions for micro-transaction-based businesses. Spanning online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, Live Gamer provides an advanced offering that goes beyond monetization to drive core business metrics and optimize new transaction-based revenue streams. Combining its micro-transaction platform, primary and secondary market management, fraud and security solutions, scalable publisher support and international payment gateways, Live Gamer's technology has been adopted by leading publishers in gaming, social and entertainment including Acclaim, Funcom, NHN USA, Quepasa, MEG Toys and Sony Online Entertainment, supporting over 65 million users in 23 countries.

Founded in 2007, the company is backed by $26 million in venture funding from Charles River Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Kodiak Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners, Triple Point Capital and Venrock. Live Gamer is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, CA and Seoul, Korea. For more information, visit www.livegamer.com or connect with us on Twitter (@livegamer), Facebook or MySpace.