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OUR TEAM INK Games™ is the digital gaming platform arm of tech company InfluenceINK, Inc. We are led and advised by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, gamers, marketers, develop- ers, technologists and investors. Oh, and a few business operations gurus to manage the growth. Our founding team previously developed mobile games for EA, Zynga and Buffalo Studios and built and exited multiple, multi-million dollar affiliate sales and technology businesses. The INK Games family is a dynamic team of developers, artists, and entrepreneurs working toward a common goal. Our collaboration of minds and new ideas produces innovative solutions and creative prob- lem solving. With clear goals on the path to our vision, always being ready for the next step keeps us ahead of the game. ROBERT TOWLES Chief Executive Officer - Founder Robert is a successful consumer product and mobile gaming industry entrepreneur and in- vestor with multiple multi-million dollar busines exits. He has an eye for investing, analyzing trends, asset acquisition, and a diverse sales and marketing background. Robert has been a lead investor in the mobile gaming space, one of which generating 2.7 MAUs, before execut- ing a $100M+ exit to Caesars Interactive Entertainment. Prior to this, he led the launch and growth of a 65,000 user business platform, generating $45M in sales in the highly competitive health and fitness niche. Notably, Robert and the team accelerated this through well-planned, viral, social media campaigns. JOSH GAUSE Chief Operating Officer - Co-Founder Josh is a two-time Emmy nominated designer that led the path for EA into social gaming before founding Buffalo Studios. Once Buffalo Studios was acquired by Caesar’s Interactive Entertainment for 100M+, Josh then founded Diluted Studios and developed Elite Slots. Elite Slots was acquired by Zynga, paving the way for their slots franchise to generate 21M+ in quarterly revenues. THOM MARTINSON Chief Brand Officer - Co-Founder Thom has over 15 years of design experience and leads branding, visual marketing, UI design, web design and digital imagery as the head of INK Games™ design team. He has worked with startup companies, professional sports teams, the entertainment industry, technology com- panies, gaming companies and hospitality companies. As well, he founded his own graphic design firm for high-end clients in the entertainment industry. He is a master in Adobe Suite and an expert concept artist and designer for the film and gaming industry. In 2017 he was nominated as one of Northern Nevada’s “Top 20 Under 40” by BizNEVADA Magazine.

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OUR TEAMINK Games™ is the digital gaming platform arm of tech company InfluenceINK, Inc.

We are led and advised by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, gamers, marketers, develop-ers, technologists and investors. Oh, and a few business operations gurus to manage the growth.

Our founding team previously developed mobile games for EA, Zynga and Buffalo Studios and built and exited multiple, multi-million dollar affiliate sales and technology businesses.

The INK Games family is a dynamic team of developers, artists, and entrepreneurs working toward a common goal.

Our collaboration of minds and new ideas produces innovative solutions and creative prob-lem solving.

With clear goals on the path to our vision, always being ready for the next step keeps us ahead of the game.

ROBERT TOWLESChief Executive Officer - Founder

Robert is a successful consumer product and mobile gaming industry entrepreneur and in-vestor with multiple multi-million dollar busines exits. He has an eye for investing, analyzing trends, asset acquisition, and a diverse sales and marketing background. Robert has been a lead investor in the mobile gaming space, one of which generating 2.7 MAUs, before execut-ing a $100M+ exit to Caesars Interactive Entertainment. Prior to this, he led the launch and growth of a 65,000 user business platform, generating $45M in sales in the highly competitive health and fitness niche. Notably, Robert and the team accelerated this through well-planned, viral, social media campaigns.

JOSH GAUSEChief Operating Officer - Co-Founder

Josh is a two-time Emmy nominated designer that led the path for EA into social gaming before founding Buffalo Studios. Once Buffalo Studios was acquired by Caesar’s Interactive Entertainment for 100M+, Josh then founded Diluted Studios and developed Elite Slots. Elite Slots was acquired by Zynga, paving the way for their slots franchise to generate 21M+ in quarterly revenues.

THOM MARTINSONChief Brand Officer - Co-Founder

Thom has over 15 years of design experience and leads branding, visual marketing, UI design, web design and digital imagery as the head of INK Games™ design team. He has worked with startup companies, professional sports teams, the entertainment industry, technology com-panies, gaming companies and hospitality companies. As well, he founded his own graphic design firm for high-end clients in the entertainment industry. He is a master in Adobe Suite and an expert concept artist and designer for the film and gaming industry. In 2017 he was nominated as one of Northern Nevada’s “Top 20 Under 40” by BizNEVADA Magazine.

LISA BUNDAYChief Financial Officer

Lisa is an experienced financial executive with over 30 years of hands on operating, manage-ment consulting andstrategic planning and has acted as Chief Financial Officer for multiple companies in a variety of industries. She has the ability to efficiently analyze and quickly assess the financial performance of a company and provideguidance to improve growth, stability and performance. Lisa works with companies of all sizes, primarily focusing on or-ganizations with revenues in excess of $50MM annually. She consults with companies at all life stages, focusing primarily on companies in start-up phase, high growth, improving profit-ability and streamlining operations.

Lisa has a background in public and private industry accounting and is well versed in finance bestpractices and internal controls. Both detailed and strategic, Lisa effectively bridges the gap between companyvision and tactical implementation. Lisa has substantial hands on experience directly assisting companies manage operations. She has been instrumental in creating efficiencies that have a measurable positive impact on the bottom line for busi-nesses aswell as positively impacting investors, suppliers, customers, and employees. Lisa functions both at the strategicand detailed levels, with the ability to understand the compa-ny opportunities and translate that into tactical functions with reporting in place to measure results.

She works extremely efficiently to obtain maximum results,while providing exceptional ser-vice to internal and external clients. Lisa applies critical thinking to a company’s operations and processes and learns about the business and its culture and values, understanding that all facets needto be in alignment to be successful. Lisa has also been instrumental in main-taining or improving banking relationship, resulting in improved returns and operating lines.Lisa has seven years of experience in public accounting in a variety of industries and services. Lisa worked primarily in the audit division, serving clients in banking, high tech, manufactur-ing, construction sectors. Clients were both publicly and privately held.

BRYAN CRANEChief Growth Officer

Bryan was most recently Managing Director of SCN Corporate Connect, a New York based financial media company that helps companies tell their stories across a curated network of leading shareholders, professional, institutional and ultra- high net worth investors. From stu-dios at NASDAQ and NYSE, SCN unlocked corporate visibility through partner affiliates and its own networks of more than 4,000 family offices, 5 million small cap investors, registered financial advisors and brokers. As well, it maintained access to the Harvest network, one of the world’s fastest growing media sites consisting of 9,000 financial firms and 400,000 veri-fied investors.

Prior to SCN, Mr. Crane was a Founding Principal and Managing Partner at BlueWater Advi-sory Group, a consultancy focused on corporate governance, capital raising and investor awareness for publicly traded companies in the green-tech and e-commerce sectors. As well, he founded a full service investor relations and corporate communications firm focused on NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ traded public companies.

DAVID WERNERChief Technology Officer

David Pioneered the first nationwide online automated mortgage platform in 1996 and gen-erated over 150 Billion transactional volume as CEO through 2009. David has been a Co-founder, CEO, Chief Architect, Designer & Advisor to multiple FinTech and Internet marketing B2B & B2C companies & tech projects worldwide. He is a crypto fanatic and early (pre-2012) Bitcoin economy developer – Bitcoin ATM’s, Meetups, Trading & Payment Processing eco-systems. In 2009 he was named one of Utah’s “Top 40 Under 40” by Utah Business Magazine.

JASMINE MAWHINNEYExecutive Director

Jasmine is an expert on streamlining processes and implementing creative strategy to el-evate the client experience. She started her own client experience consulting company, and helped clients from all industries apply innovative problem-solving tactics to stimulate busi-ness growth and increase profitability. She offers a multifaceted skill set; including brand strategy, trend forecasting, business development, blogging, public speaking, client rela-tions, leadership and research analysis. Oh and she has a really cute, blue-eyed husky named Nova.

KYVAN SHAIGINEIKDirector of Business Development

Kyvan has 18 years of experience in directing managment teams to 6 all time sales growth records for Toyota motor company. He has achieved 5 JD power awards in sales Excellence. Kyvan specializes in maximizing revenue and growth potential He is a leader and business professional in the sales industry. Previously recognized by Toyota and Mercedes Benz motor company as an industry leader.

LUKE LITMANDirector of Design

Luke has over 15 years in the gaming and design industry and has experience leading teams in design, visual storytelling, UI design, web design and digital imagery as the Director of Design for INK Games™. He excels at understanding the industry an utilizes that expertise to help create amazing experiences across the gaming space. He is a master in Adobe Suite and an expert in Unity.

ROB LUCKFIELDDirector of Operations

Robert has been in the industry for almost a decade, and has quickly risen the ranks from QA Engineer up to Director of Operations. He’s contributed to a variety of gaming titles, includ-ing Niantic’s Pokemon GO, and Nintendo’s Pokken Tournament, with a proven track-record in team leadership and product management. For the past 3 years, he’s overseen production across multiple mobile titles and managed the development team for over 2 years. With a keen eye for overall direction, he’s consistently maintained collaboration across depart-ments without unnecessary overhead. He now lends his leadership to the INK Games™ team at large, optimizing communication and collaboration, and maximizing efficiency across the board.

PHIL MCCREADirector of Investor Relations

Phil McCrea has over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, providing execu-tive leadership to high-growth companies across Southern California. A natural innovator, he incorporated technology improvements, industry partnerships and targeted investments to grow business units; including driving 500% revenue growth over four years for a leading industry service provider.

Phil has managed fundraising and communication efforts for multiple organizations – includ-ing those with national and international operations. A charismatic and genuine communica-tor, Phil helps cultivate and maintain relationships with INK Games™ subscriber base while also supporting user loyalty and satisfaction building efforts.

SETH MORRISEYDirector of Social Media & SEO

A professional web Developer and SEO expert with over 15 years experience, Seth has led digital marketing, branding, web development and reputation management projects for doz-ens of companies nationally.

In 2008, Seth founded and built one of the Pacific Northwest’s leading digital marketing and web solutions agencies. He is a sought after thought-leader in mainstream media and con-sidered an authority on search engine optimization, video marketing and aerial drone tech-nology for marketing applications. Seth is a FAA certified drone pilot.

AARON WERNERDirector of Product & Technology

For over 20 years Aaron has been an innovator in the enterprise technology development space. He has architected over 35 software applications and most recently, created his own Bitcoin arbitrage application harvesting price changes in Bitcoin and display buying and sell-ing opportunities.

He is the primary developer of Pixwalla, a big-data enabled, predictive targeting application that unmasks website visitors and enables companies to target market those individuals. As well, he built the first viral sales funnel which propagated specific ads and marketing mes-sages on social media platforms through a social sharing application.

JEFF CASTONDirector of Support

Over the last 16 years, Jeff has directed customer support teams in the technology and affili-ate marketing industries. Previous roles involved oversight of all operations and support ac-tivities; including technical support, customer service and after sales service. As well, Jeff has developed and implemented support, education, issue resolution and technology solutions to improve and scale customer experience efforts. He is adept at growing support teams and has effectively managed efforts for companies with multiple thousands of users.

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