Nexplay names business leader Miguel Bernas as co-founder, president

Miguel Bernas, an early investor in esports startup Nexplay, is taking a extra lively position as president and co-founder as the corporate prepares for the Series A fund-raising. With headquarters in Singapore, Nexplay is based by Filipinos and is managing the esports staff Nexplay Evos.

As an esports ecosystem startup, Nexplay brings know-how, esports groups, content material creators and influencers, manufacturers, and followers audiences collectively. Its community of creators has a cumulative follower base of greater than 200 million.

As president and co-founder, Bernas will lead technique and company governance, as effectively as spearhead fundraising as the corporate strikes towards its Series A funding spherical.

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A veteran govt and business leader, Bernas brings over 25 years of world media business expertise, having labored with among the world’s best-known media manufacturers such as tv networks MTV, CNBC, Singapore’s Mediacorp, and digital media pioneer Yahoo! He has additionally led advertising groups in world and Asia Pacific roles at Nokia, Singtel, and PayPal.

Bernas is a veteran govt in each conventional and digital media. Based in Singapore, his work in driving income, constructing manufacturers, and rising audiences have earned him various business accolades in Singapore.

Web3.0, NFTs, and blockchain gaming

“Miguel has been a part of our staff, backing us when all we had was a prototype and being one in all our earliest buyers,” stated Gabriel Benito, founder and CEO of Nexplay. “To have him step up right into a extra lively position and convey his world media expertise to Nexplay shall be an enormous profit to the staff.”

Already operationally worthwhile with revenues rising at 150% yr on yr, the gaming tech startup is seeking to bolster its esports ecosystem and improve its skilled esports groups and content material creator choices to manufacturers and advertisers.

“The video games business within the area and within the Philippines is at an inflection level,” stated Bernas. “Aside from additional increasing our esports ecosystem, we additionally plan to enterprise into the high-growth space of Web3.0, NFTs, and blockchain gaming. In the identical manner that video games leaped from arcades to the house, from desktop units to cellular handsets and from offline to on-line, blockchain know-how would be the subsequent revolution in gaming.”