Title: managing director and co-founder
Organization: area/code
Kevin Slavin is the managing director and co-founder of area/code. Founded in 2005, the company creates cross-media games and entertainment for clients including Nokia, CBS, Disney Imagineering, MTV, Discovery Networks, A&E Networks and Nike. Area/code builds on the landscape of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment. It has built mobile games with invisible characters that move through real-world spaces, online games synchronized to live television broadcasts and videogames in which virtual sharks are controlled by real-world sharks with GPS receivers stapled to their fins. Their Facebook game "Parking Wars" is on target to serve over 1.5 billion pages in 2008. Before founding area/code, Slavin spent over 12 years in ad agencies focused primarily on technology, networks, and community. His work has been recognized through many industry awards and press.
