Jenna is a creative in the entertainment industry specializing in coming up with really good ideas and then making them look really good. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 8, which she realized only after indulging in a particularly sugary piece of cake during a birthday party. After her diagnosis, she was given a copy of Packy and Marlon—a game on the Super Nintendo where the titular characters would platform in search of medical supplies and food. Having been raised as a gamer, the experience of utilizing games to educate, inform, and entertain made such a life-changing event feel not quite so isolating.

Professionally, she has worked with EA on advertising for games like Madden, Minions Paradise, and Simpsons Tapped Out as well as consulting on Honda's relationship with Team Liquid. Nowadays, she's deep in the entertainment industry over at Disney ideating on partnership marketing for brands like Coca-Cola, McDonalds, and Hyundai. Bob Iger once called her team "world-class."

Jenna enjoys building a home filled to the brim with games of all sorts with her husband (a Rioter) and their four cats. From mobile games to consoles and PC games, from TTRPGs to board games, they enjoy it all. Jenna has also had a longtime of goal of streaming, and what better reason to jump into the fray than for a cause she cares so deeply for with JDRF Game2Give. Don't be afraid to give her a little push (for a good cause).

Brandon Hunt is a veteran in the gaming industry with experience producing video and social media assets for IGN, Twitch, Humble Games, Amazon Games, and more. He has been a type 1 diabetic since he was thirteen years old, and he's always exploring new technologies that can help those afflicted manage their diabetic journey. When he's not creating videos that range from in-depth trailers and features to goofy internet memes, he enjoys singing for his metal band, Titan Rage. He hopes that with his tenure in the gaming and music fields he can bring more information, help, and joy to those who are going through their own diabetic journey.

Brian David-Marshall is a writer, game designer, and CEO/founder who has worked in the game industry for almost as long as he has been a diagnosed type 1 diabetic. After being heavily involved in building the community around Magic: The Gathering through events and content, BDM—as he is widely known in the gaming community—has designed multiple board games and card games, and has written comics for Marvel and other independent publications. He is currently building a new expansive narrative world that will have one foot in comics and another in games, and is excited to share it with the world as soon as it is ready.

In 2024, BDM organized a Magic charity event called Vintage vs. Type 1, which raised over $15,000 for JDRF Game2Give—setting the bar much higher for the next one.

Devon Taylor is a VP, Group Director, Strategy and Gaming Evolver for Klick Health. She brings fifteen years of experience in the advertising, nonprofit, education, and communication sectors. Her job every single day is to help clients bridge healthcare and gaming to deploy precise, impactful, and immersive advertising strategies around the world. Devon previously held senior strategy/marketing roles at 21GRAMS, JDRF, and the University of Pennsylvania. As a gaming thought leader, she has been featured in MM+M and PRWeek, served as a juror for the D&AD New Blood Awards, and was a highlighted speaker at SXSW.

Devon was a founding member of JDRF Game2Give and it is, to date, her greatest professional achievement. She hosts a weekly stream on twitch.tv/BrieflyDevon covering news and insights highlighting the intersection of gaming and healthcare.

In her spare time, Devon freelances as a publicist, brand manager, and writer. She obtained her MEd in higher education administration and her BA in public relations from Penn State.

Devon is a proud working mom (of the human and canine variety) and strives to make her sons proud every day!

Evan Bell is a veteran game developer currently trying to mold great technology in the Frostbite engine team at Electronic Arts. He has worked on sixteen shipped, cross-platform titles going back to the Nintendo 64, making meaningful contributions to Battlefield 4, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Anthem, and Dragon Age as a programmer and technical leader. Evan was diagnosed with T1D at the age of fourteen and has lived with the condition for more than thirty years.

Christian Svensson is currently VP of 2nd/3rd Party Content Ventures & Strategic Initiatives at Sony Interactive Entertainment. Prior to his current post, he has served as COO at Six Foot (a game developer/publisher and motion picture & television studio), Corporate Officer/SVP at Capcom, VP of Entertainment Publishing at Midway, CEO of MCV USA, Editorial Director at Computec Media USA, Editor-in-Chief of Next Generation Online (which would later become IGN.com), and more.

He has participated on several Boards of Directors and Advisors including the Board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the PC/Open Gaming Alliance, Interactive Entertainment Professionals, and the board of Take This, a nonprofit dedicated to decreasing stigma and increasing support for mental health within the game industry. He is a graduate of Bucknell University with a BS in civil engineering.

Sam has spent his career leading teams and companies across the video games industry. He’s flown Star Wars spaceships at LucasArts, managed game technology teams at Microsoft, and built games for Hollywood films like The Hunger Games and Mission: Impossible.

In 2015 he founded Level Ex, the world’s first medical video games studio. Over a million medical professionals play Level Ex games, which are the only video games to offer AMA Category 1 CME credit. At Level Ex, Sam works with the majority of major life science and medical device companies, as well as NASA, to use video game tech and neuroscience to help doctors perform at the top of their game.

In 2019, Sam’s daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age five.

Steven accidentally fell into games some many years ago. He's worked as a designer, producer, and business developer at places like Foundation 9, Ubisoft, Humble, and Prismatika. He's lived with T1D for over forty years.

John is a Cofounder and Partner of Raine. John is responsible for Raine’s interactive entertainment, real money gaming, and digital media practice. Prior to Raine, John was Global Head of Digital Media at UBS Investment Bank, where he had worked for over eight years in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group in San Francisco. Prior to UBS, John worked in the Internet and New Media group at Volpe, Brown, Whelan & Co. in San Francisco.

While at Raine, John has led Raine’s investments in DraftKings, Beachbody, Games24x7, Huuuge, Zumba Fitness, and Jagex. He has led a variety of advisory assignments, including raising $3B for Epic Games in two transactions, DraftKings’ combination with Diamond Eagle and SBTech, the sale of Playtika (a unit of Caesars Interactive) to a consortium led by Shanghai Giant Network Technology, SoftBank’s sale of its majority stake in Supercell to Tencent, the sale of Double Down Interactive (a unit of International Game Technology) to an affiliate of DoubleU Games, and Legendary Entertainment’s sale to Wanda, among other transactions. John is on the board of directors of Midnite, Huuuge, Beachbody and Games24x7, all Raine portfolio companies, and is a board observer of DraftKings and Fliff.

John has a BA from Stanford University.

Jonathan Lai is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. As a cofounder of A16Z GAMES, Jon invests at the intersection of games and technology, with a focus on games as social networks, AI-native games, and virtual worlds infrastructure.

Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a senior product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot Games API before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley.

Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Brian is a type 1 diabetic who has been creating games and helping game companies flourish since the Gamecube era. He began programming computers and soldering hobby projects about the same time he started finger-prick blood tests and insulin injections, and he made a career from the former while connecting with T1Ds and families new to the latter.

Starting out in software engineering before moving into entrepreneurship and eventually finding a happy place in product management, Brian loves helping JDRF Game2Give build and connect inclusive communities and empower anyone to find ways to contribute—from niche streamers to industry leaders. Outside of work and JDRF Game2Give, you can find Brian absorbed in an up-and-coming art gallery, diving into the minutiae of a bottle of wine with family, or enjoying a concert at the tiniest venue he can find.

Justin Graham has over thirty years of experience in game development, with roles at LucasFilm Games / LucasArts Entertainment, Maxis, Electronic Arts, Elf Farm, Zynga, Cocos2dX / Chukong, SDKBox, and Unity before his current position as Senior Systems Engineer at Gallium Studios, working on Proxi. Skilled as a cofounder, technical leader, developer, and mentor, Justin enjoys solving complex problems in game development, simulation, and AI.