As our Chief Technology Officer and VP of Game Development, Bjorn Book Larsson brings over a decade of game development management experience to Gameshastra. Most recently he was Chief Technology Officer at FUN Technologies Inc (LSE:FUN, TSX:FUN), a Liberty Media company. At FUN he led development of casual, sports, fantasy, and sci-fi games across a wide range of devices and platforms.
In 1999 Bjorn co-founded SkillJam.com - and as CTO he architected one of the Internet's first tournament game systems, reaching over 10 million of registered tournament players.
Bjorn has managed game development efforts spread across seven offices in three different countries. This background gives him a unique perspective on the challenges involved in integrating externally developed code into internal development cycles. He brings a unique understanding of the customer's point of view to his leadership at Gameshastra's Game Development Division.
Bjorn has a BS degree in Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science from UNC-Chapel Hill.

With a commendable experience of over 20 years in the gaming industry, Jim heads our production department. He is a self taught computer programmer and a specialist in game development.
After trying his hand at different jobs, Jim finally found his calling in making games and he has been making games or game related products ever since. Jim has worked directly or indirectly for most of the major publishers, many small studios, and several startup ventures.
He was the lead developer for “The Godfather”, designer for “Hellfire” and has been credited for over 20 AAA titles since 1980s.
His last assignment was as the Development Director at FX Labs in Seattle and Hyderabad. His earlier assignments include work as developer at Microsoft Synergistic, Headgate, EA

Lance Sun is the "Technical Lead" for the Game Development Division at Game Shastra, where he is primarily responsible for the technical delivery of all Game Shastra's titles.
He started his career as a "core" game developer at Gas Powered Games, where he worked as a developer on several triple-A titles, including Dungeon Siege 2 and Supreme Commander.
In 2004 he joined Oberon Media and channeled his Core game development experience into the emerging area of "Casual Games," and worked on several Windows, Web and Xbox casual titles, among them acting as lead developer for "Chess Titans" which ships as an "In-Box" game with Windows Vista. After Oberon, Lance joined FUN Technologies and SkillJam where he was integral to creating new games and retooling SkillJam's tournament game system.
Throughout his career Lance has worked with a wide range of languages (C++, C#, ActionScript, maxscript, MEL etc.) on a range of different platforms (Web, PC, ITV, Xbox 360 and other consoles).
Lance has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

Prior to Gameshastra, Kamatchinathan was the team lead at Carbonon Games, Chennai, where he led a team of 8 people in the development of "Monster Truck Racing". He has a Master's in Computer Applications from Baharatidasan University.

Prior to Gameshastra, Sumant worked for FXLabs in Hyderabad as a technical lead on FXLabs' upcoming title "Archie", written using the GameBryo game engine. He has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from University of Pune.

Ramesh has been in software development over 10 years. In his previous position with Tata Consulting Services' RnD Division, he created several types of image compression software. Ramesh brings extensive experience on the Win32 development platform. He has a M-tech(CSE) from University of Hyderabad.