skill-based tournament
entertainment. As Chief
Technology Officer and member of the
senior executive team Mr. Enright
works with the President and CMO to
drive overall business strategy and
execution while directly overseeing
the technology and product
management organizations, including
all game development (creative and
technical), tournament and web
customer experience (creative and
technical) and the company's
entertainment product pipeline.
Since taking this role Mr. Enright
has been principally focused on
positioning the team and company for
growth, with an emphasis on
recruiting and retaining top talent,
improving process and procedure,
updating the technology platforms
and creating a long term technology
strategy to meet aggressive business
objectives. In addition
identification and assessment of
potential acquisition and/or
strategic partnerships is an ongoing
aspect of the role.
Prior to his
position at WorldWinner/FUN, Michael
served as Vice President, Technology
and Project Management as
well as Vice President,
Domestic and International
Publishing, at
Turbine, Inc.,
one of
North America's leading
creators of Massively Multiplayer
Online Games (MMOG).
At Turbine Mr.
Enright led the game technology
(client, server, networking) as
well as the service technology
team (billing, account
management, web applications)
through the successful on time
and on budget launch of
Turbine's second major title,
Dungeons and Dragons Online. In
his role
overseeing Publishing and Project Management,
Mr. Enright oversaw the successful
localization, customization,
integration, and launch of
Turbine's products in North
America as well as with major regional
entertainment entities in Asia (Shanda
Entertainment and
CDC Corporation serving
China,
Sakura Internet serving
Japan, and
ValueSpace/LetsGame serving
Korea) and Europe (CodeMasters
serving England, Germany,
France).
Prior joining
Turbine, Mr. Enright was Chief
Technology Officer at Harvard
Business School Interactive,
where he led the development and
launch of several new global
multimedia distance
learning products for the
Harvard Business School,
including P&L responsibility
along with sales, product
management, product and service
delivery, and technology responsibility for
key HBSI products and services.
Prior
to HBS Mr. Enright served as
Chief Technology Officer for
MyWay.com, CMGI's
international "white-label"
portal service business, serving
deep and rich portal content
aggregated real-time from
hundreds of sources through 900+
customized business sites to millions
of end-users via an industry
leading personalized custom
portal web technical
infrastructure. Mr. Enright also helped CMGI
develop business and technology
strategies for wireless and
broadband products and services, and oversaw
the development and successful rollout of
several wireless
and broadband Internet products
and services for MyWay.com.
As CTO, Mr.
Enright led the on-time and
on-budget deployment of a major
upgrade to MyWay's web serving
infrastructure, significantly
increasing system performance,
reliability, and customer
experience while reducing
platform cost and easing partner
integration, providing MyWay
with a stable technology
backbone to support business
growth while improving customer
satisfaction.
As Director of
Development at Spyglass
Technologies' East Coast
Development Center Mr. Enright led the
successful development of
software and custom software
development professional services which
enabled non-PC devices to access
web and multimedia Internet content
via wireless and wired platforms, e.g. WAP/web
browsers for cell phones,
Internet browsers for Palm and PocketPC PDAs, as well as web
browsers for TV
set-top-boxes.
Mr. Enright's experience
includes engineering leadership roles at
Digital Equipment Corporation
and Compaq Computer Corporation,
where he led the development of
major portions of a large-scale,
complex, custom engineered
video-server product for
telecommunications corporations
and led the mission-critical
UNIX operating system networking
team.
Serving in engineering as
well as
marketing and business
development roles at Wavefront
Technologies and Cambridge
Research Associates,
Mr. Enright led product
management
and business development,
creating partnerships and joint
offerings between his company and strategic
product and channel partners
such as Silicon Graphics.
While in sales at IBM, Mr.
Enright developed successful
product development
relationships between IBM's
product development teams and
key University of California
early adopter technology users,
and successfully sold and
installed first generation UNIX
systems to the nine-campus UC
Universities as well as Lawrence
Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratories.
A licensed commercial pilot,
Mr. Enright holds an Airline
Transport Pilot rating, and has
served as an FAA Check Airman
and Airline Instructor Pilot
in
addition to serving as an
aircraft Captain for Atlantic Coast Airlines/United
Express (now FlyI Airlines), a regional
passenger airline serving the US
East Coast. Mr. Enright was
asked to serve as Interim
Regional Flight Manager during
the planning and integration of
a successful merger of two
airlines, overseeing all flight
operations and over 600+ airline
pilots.
An avid outdoorsman, Mr.
Enright has participated in land
and water expeditions in the
continental US, Alaska, Asia and Africa,
including an ascent of 16,000'+
Mt. Kenya, and has
crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a
61' sailboat.
In 2004 Mr. Enright completed
the Boston Marathon, his first
marathon, dedicating his run to
support Tufts University's
Health and Nutrition research
efforts.
Mr. Enright
holds a BS in Computer Science
from Tufts University and
completed Harvard Business
School's Delivery Information
Services Executive Program.
See our News and Publications
page for more information on Mr.
Enright's recent work
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