As our world becomes more polarized, we want to use games to bring people together.

We believe creating co-operative relationships through games can break down the social barriers that divide us. Our mission is to create fun games that allow our players to engage in co-operative and co-creative experiences with other players from around the world. We believe that the experience of playing team-based games can help foster relationships between people who would never otherwise have the opportunity to interact.

Meet the Team

Justin Hefter | Bandura Games

Justin Hefter

CEO/Co-Founder

Justin is our CEO and fearless leader. He wears many hats: from baseball caps to sombreros. He graduated from Stanford University and has 4+ years of professional experience in business and conflict resolution. Justin has found success developing business strategy for some of the world's largest companies, as well as helping bring people together across conflict zones.

Etay | Bandura Games

Etay

Co-Founder

Etay is our marketing lead and the primary hardcore gamer on the team. He even met some of his best friends playing MMORPGs on-line. Although Etay founded a digital marketing company called Oasis, he grew up on the old-school style of marketing, going door-to-door to get people to support campaigns and causes. While we are primarily just going to advertise online, the next time your doorbell rings, it might be Etay!

Ammoun | Bandura Games

Ammoun

Co-Founder

Ammoun heads our customer development team and constantly reminds us that women love games too! A fan of Super Mario, Ammoun believes that games can teach us valuable lessons. As a teacher, Ammoun loves to use games in the classroom to get kids excited about learning.

Advisory Board

Sarah Fuchs | Bandura Games

Sarah Fuchs

Advisor

Sarah Fuchs is a video game consultant and industry veteran, whose passion for cultivating and creating exceptional game studio cultures has benefitted teams at major companies like Electronic Arts, Activision, DeNA, and nWay. Most recently, Sarah was the Vice President of Production and Studio Operations at nWay, a San Francisco based video game startup. At Electronic Arts and Maxis, Sarah produced and product managed a variety of popular games including: We Rule, Spore, Sims 2, The Godfather, Xmen - The Official Game, and James Bond Everything or Nothing. Sarah is also on the Advisory Board for Spark, a non-profit that focuses on empowering at-risk teens by connecting them with mentors.

Gabriel Magaña | Bandura Games

Gabriel Magana

Tech Advisor/CTO

Gabriel Magaña, currently CTO at Major League Fantasy, Inc., is an experienced system architect and engineer with 23 years’ experience implementing technology in industries ranging from finance to online gaming. At CPXi, Gabriel wrote a system that handled more than 35B ad impressions per month for over 15M unique monthly users. At Zynga, Gabriel wrote a Poker data gathering and analysis system that processed over 400 stats for 60M played hands per day for 4M unique daily users. Gabriel was also responsible at Zynga for administration of the 205 servers that ran the Poker analysis system. Gabriel has been a startup co-founder and CTO as well, so he understands the tough choices that must be made when balancing time to market versus limited resources. Gabriel is a UC Irvine Information and Computer Science graduate.

Colin Rule | Bandura Games

Colin Rule

Advisor

Colin Rule is COO of Modria.com, a Silicon Valley company that offers
online dispute resolution implementation assistance. He co-founded Modria in 2011 and served as CEO until June, 2013. From 2003 to 2011 he was Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for two decades as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board at the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass Amherst, and he is a Fellow at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School.