Sam Glassenberg

Sam has spent his career managing teams and companies at the cutting edge of the video games industry.

He is currently the CEO of Funtactix – Israel’s top video game studio and world-leading publisher of social games for high-profile entertainment properties.

As CEO of Funtactix, Sam has led Funtactix to create a new market for free-to-play games based on movies, and has elevated emerging game platforms like Facebook and iOS into mature storytelling mediums that expand major film and book franchises.

Before joining Funtactix, Sam managed an industry-leading game platform team at Microsoft - focused on pushing the cutting-edge of video game graphics across the Windows and Xbox gaming ecosystem.
Sam also worked on some of Microsoft’s largest online services (MSN and XboxLive). He began his career at LucasArts (a division of LucasFilm) – creating the first video games to incorporate movie-based assets.