Boonty.com<\/a>, a digital game distribution company. Operating in over 30 countries with a staff of 180, the company was sold to Nexway in 2008.<\/p>\nIn 2006, Mathieu co-founded Is Cool Entertainment, a social casual game publisher which was listed on the Paris stock market, and later acquired by publishing company Hachette.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Mathieu co-founded CCU, a leading crypto currency mining company in Canada that went public in Toronto in 2021.<\/p>\n
From 2009 to 2022, Mathieu was the CEO of FreshPlanet, the New York-based developer of the mega hit social music trivia mobile game SongPop. The game has built a global following of over 150 Million players since its launch in June 2012. In 2018, FreshPlanet was sold to Gameloft, one of the leading mobile game developer in the world.<\/p>\n
Mathieu is a graduate of the Grenoble School of Management and holds an MBA from Pace University in New York.<\/p>\n
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