Bobber Interactive provides banks a cost-efficient growth engine for new accounts and core deposits, with the first social, viral money management platform for today's underbanked youth. Leveraging the proven engagement power of social gaming, Bobber incentivizes users to manage their real-world money, enlist family & social networks to participate in their savings and spending goals, and build smart money habits for life.

Eric Eastman

CEO

Eric began his career at J.P. Morgan in 1992 and left in 1997 as a Second Vice President leading a merger team within Chase's acquisition of their commercial paper business. While getting his MBA at Wharton, Eric founded and funded JobJuice.com, a 5-person Internet startup sold for ten times invested capital.

Eric joined the San Francisco office of Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) in 1999 to assist large and startup companies with Internet initiatives, including E*Trade's growth strategy, GATX Financial's online railway exchange and Tickets.com. In 2002, Eric joined Levi Strauss' senior leadership team as lead strategist in launching a new Mass channel brand, before taking on an operating role in their retail business. Eric started Bobber Interactive in March 2009 and has self-funded its development to date.

A father of two, Eric is passionate about the development of youth in money and entrepreneurship. He launched and led the Junior Achievement program at Wharton and is part of the Financial Education Public-Private Partnership, tasked with building financial literacy in Washington's K-12 schools.

Scott Dodson

COO

A serial entrepreneur, Scott founded and funded Flying Rhino Studios in 1994 and ran the company until its sale in 2005. Flying Rhino produced award winning work for clients including: T-Mobile, Microsoft, Costco, and Wizards of the Coast. He served as president of the Seattle Advertising Federation (2001-2002).

In 2004 he became President and CEO of Tenacious Games, bootstrapping for two years and funding it with over $2M of Angel Money in 2006 & 2007. Tenacious Games developed and published the internationally acclaimed trading card game, The Spoils™, launching to a top ten position in ten countries, before selling to Arcane Tinmen (Denmark). In May 2008, Scott joined the founding team of Divide by Zero Games and led its first two tranches of VC funding before taking on operations as COO.

He has a passion for entrepreneurism, deal structure, and the capitalization of companies. Scott engages as an advisor or consultant on social game design, asset-based gaming models, virtual goods, monetization, funding, and corporate and business development.

John Bito

CTO

John is best known for the consummate technical leadership that shaped the delivery of five commercial products beginning in the 1980s. Three of the five startups he worked with over that time had a desirable exit: a successful IPO, a merger with publicly traded company and the largest sale of a privately held Washington software company following the dotcom bust of 2001.

That sale was Qpass Inc, an internet services and software company that was acquired by Amdocs in May 2006 for $275MM. During his nine years at Qpass, John worked as Chief Technical Architect to lead the development and implementation of digital commerce systems for companies such as Cingular, Sprint-Nextel, T-Mobile International and Starz! Entertainment Network. In 2000, the Qpass Web services effected the first mobile transactions in North America. In addition to defining and performing technical leadership for partners and acquisition efforts, John provided guidance and support for organizational frameworks and practices.

Prior to Qpass, John served as the chief architect for DataFocus, Inc., where he developed NutCracker, which continues to be utilized as part of the suite of MKS Unix/Windows Interoperability products. In 1994, DataFocus assumed the software assets of Convergent Solutions, which went public in 1987 on the strength of the CS/ADS product for which John held responsibility.

John attended Columbia University and currently lives with his wife in Seattle. He's proud of the 4 children who are pursuing education at college and beyond.