CEO, Metacafe

Erick Hachenburg brings more than 15 years of experience in market creation, global expansion, operations and publishing to his role as Metacafe CEO. Prior to joining Metacafe, Hachenburg was Electronic Art's senior vice president of global online publishing and managing director of EA China. In this role, he developed and led EA's key strategic initiatives, including the company's entry into the digital distribution of retail games, as well as the rapid expansion of EA's Pogo casual games platform and business. He also established EA's online production, operations and publishing capabilities in Asia. Hachenburg joined EA following the company's 2001 acquisition of Pogo.com, the industry leader in the casual games market that Hachenburg founded and built to nearly 1.5 million subscribers. Hachenburg began his career as an intellectual property attorney at Fenwick & West. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois.