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About Nathon Gunn
- Nathon Gunn (born November 4, 1973) is a Toronto-based Canadian serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Bitcasters Inc., Social Game Universe, LightningPlatform.com and most recently x-Pollinate.
- His work includes writing, speaking, advising in the support of democratic development, civic engagement, democratization of technology and entrepreneurship at conferences such as Personal Democracy Forum and Politics Online, part of OpenCongress and Sunlight Foundation and in books such as "Searching for the New Liberalism" His most recent contribution to the Canadian political landscape was in the form of senior advisor to Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains. In 2009, his philanthropic game History Game Canada, won a MacArthur Foundation award for Innovation in Participatory Learning.
- It was inspired by and created in partnership with Tom Axworthy.
- Gunn was a founding Director of the Board for Serious Games Canada.Gunn is a film and TV director, producer and editor, and has won awards for various commercial and artistic endeavours such as short films and major-label music videos, including PromaxBDA Awards for Games and On Air Promotions for his work with the Family Channel and MuchMusic Video Awards for videos like Our Lady Peace's "In Repair" (Spiritual Machines).Gunn served as CEO of Lightning Platform, which developed software for entrepreneurs.
- Lightning derived from Social Game Universe, for which Gunn was credited as lead game designer.
- The company was a pioneer in cross application interaction and created an ad banner system, IGAPI, that leverages social media and game mechanics for product discovery.
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