Vlad Suglobov

Vlad is a games industry veteran of almost 30 years. He has an M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Programming from Moscow State University (1995) and Stanford LEAD Certificate from Stanford Graduate School of Business (2021). In 1995 during his freshman year, he started his career as employee #14 at Nikita Ltd. (now Nikita Online). In 2000, Vlad graduated from the university and spent the next year working as a software engineer on the team of the US-funded startup “Voxster”. In 2001, Vlad and colleagues co-founded G5 to develop PC games and some of the first mobile games to be ever released in USA. While being CEO from the company’s inception, Vlad continued to write game engine code until 2003 after which he focused entirely on the business. With the arrival of the iPhone in 2008, Vlad started G5’s publishing operation which brought popular PC hidden object games to the new generation of mobile devices in addition to publishing the group’s own games. 

In 2011 Vlad moved to San Francisco Bay Area to establish G5’s marketing operations in USA, the company’s largest market. Since 2013, when free-to-play (F2P) games started quickly gaining prominence on mobile, Vlad has steered G5 to focus on this business model with an emphasis on quality, a smaller number of new releases, and worldwide cross-platform distribution. Today, Vlad continues to be deeply involved in the company’s strategy, marketing and product development. 

Holdings: 0 shares, 68,600 performance shares. Vlad is also a deputy board member in Wide Development Cyprus Ltd. that owns 640,000 shares.