Sean Ryan is the CEO and co-founder of ZOOT (GetZoot), a New York-based social sweepstakes gaming platform that swaps casino slots for arcade-style games like Plinko, Mines, Crash and Dice played for cash prizes. A 30-year gaming and digital-media operator, he built and led Facebook's multi-billion-dollar games business for 11 years, ran the digital music service Listen.com/Rhapsody, and co-founded social casino studio Open Wager (maker of LuckyLand Slots), which sold to VGW in 2017. In June 2025 he raised $6 million in seed funding led by CoinFund with Griffin Gaming Partners to turn ZOOT's US sweepstakes business into a global, stablecoin-powered gaming network.
Cecily Mak is a co-founding general partner of Wisdom Ventures, a San Francisco-based fund backing technology and companies that support mindfulness, human connection, and well-being. A former lawyer and Silicon Valley operator (Rhapsody, Flipboard, ConsenSys, Blockdaemon), she is also the founder of the ClearLife community and author of Undimmed: The Eight Awarenesses for Freedom from Unwanted Habits (Flatiron Books, January 2026).