Josh has over two decades of experience in the game industry, with a focus on scaling innovative businesses and brands. He has held executive roles with Kongregate, Mochi Media, and GameSpot, leading each to beneficial acquisitions. Driving success for independent game developers is a common thread in his career, as Josh has published Editors’ Choice award-winning games that collectively have hundreds of millions of downloads, including Peter Molyneux’s The Trail, idle game pioneer AdVenture Capitalist, and Fox’s Animation Throwdown. Josh is honored to serve as JDRF Game2Give’s first Director, which he regards as the most important job of his career. 

Dan is a video game industry pioneer and visionary who has played a key role in driving the evolution of digital distribution, episodic game production, and interactive narrative. Dan started his career at LucasArts in 1993, moving from QA to production before founding Telltale Games in 2004 to focus on narrative games. During Dan’s tenure as CEO, the studio released notable games including Sam & Max, The Walking Dead (winner of 80+ Game of the Year awards), and The Wolf Among Us. Today, Dan uses his skills in development, marketing, and innovation to craft mutually beneficial relationships between JDRF and the video game industry. He is also a partner in the independent studio Skunkape Games, and he serves as a consultant for other game companies.

Hans has been a video game industry executive for over twenty years. He has served in creative and business roles at PlayStation and Electronic Arts, where he designed, produced, and published video games for several franchises (including The Sims and The Simpsons). He is the former Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Game Developers Association and was most recently the COO of augmented reality gaming company Tilt Five. He and his family care deeply about JDRF’s mission to create a world without T1D, which has led to them volunteering for numerous initiatives, including JDRF Game2Give. Hans also currently serves as President of JDRF’s Northern California Chapter Community Board.

Emily is a marketing and public relations consultant with almost twenty years of experience in the video game industry. Since 2009, she has consulted with indie studios to develop and execute PR campaigns for more than 120 games for PC, mobile, and consoles, specializing in adventure games and story-heavy games in other genres. Before that, Emily managed press and community relations for Telltale Games, reporting to Telltale’s then-CEO, Dan Connors. When Dan asked for her help establishing the JDRF Game2Give community and organizing the program’s first Twitch event in 2019, she signed on for a three-month contract and never left.

Monique joined JDRF Game2Give in 2022, bringing more than ten years of experience in peer-to-peer fundraising and event management. In her work for major nonprofits such as the American Lung Association and Zoological Society of Milwaukee, Monique helped raise over $10M to support various research, advocacy, education, and conservation efforts. Most recently, Monique served as the National Special Events Manager at the Epilepsy Foundation of America, where her responsibilities included establishing and solely managing a livestreaming program that raised $40K in revenue in its first year.

As JDRF Game2Give’s community manager, Monique oversees planning and execution of all our streaming events, manages our Discord server and social media, engages and grows our community, and regularly streams on the JDRF Twitch channel. Monique is a longtime gamer—...it all started when she was six, playing Super Mario World on Super Nintendo, and continued in middle school when she played Battlefield 1942 on PC as a member of a Top 25 ranked guild. Today, Monique’s favorite games include Fortnite, anything Mario or Legends of Zelda, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, The Sims 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. 

Emily joined the JDRF Northern California Chapter in 2015 and is currently Director of Donor Relations. Emily works closely with the chapter’s executive team and volunteer leadership to strengthen stewardship while engaging and growing their pipeline of major gifts. She has worked with JDRF Game2Give since 2020, bringing her extensive knowledge of peer-to-peer fundraising to our initiatives and helping us secure critical support internally from JDRF and externally from corporate sponsors. Emily is also a longtime gamer, with favorites including The Last of Us, God of War, Ratchet and Clank, Luigi’s Mansion 3, and Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Isaac has been involved in Roblox development since 2020, with credits such as Chipotle’s spine-chilling “Boorito” Halloween event, live concerts featuring Tai Vaerdes and Zara Larsson, and the parkour battle royale game Jump Kingdoms. He first worked with JDRF Game2Give in 2021, as a designer on JDRF One World’s UK update, and joined the team more formally in 2022. As our in-house Roblox expert, Isaac lends his skills in game design, 3D modeling, environment design, and production to further evolve JDRF One World, with contributions including the Quest for the Golden Rufus treasure hunt, the Children’s Congress sidequest in Washington, DC, and a major content update currently under development.