Gaming Legend Ed Fries Joins the Board of Recurrence
(PRWEB) October 12, 2017 -- Recurrence, a software startup that is revolutionizing the way business, leadership, and critical thinking skills are taught in higher education, has added gaming legend Ed Fries to its Board of Directors.
“This is absolutely great news!” said Brayden Olson, CEO of Recurrence. “We’ve been pursuing a new board member, and we got our #1 pick. He’s a perfect fit for the company.”
Fries has an impressive pedigree. He spent 17 years at Microsoft, where he served as vice president of games and helped create the Xbox. His expertise will be tremendously useful for Recurrence as the company creates new products.
“Ed brings decades of game industry expertise and connections. In addition, he will help us get in front of important conferences, and he will help us demonstrate to the industry that gamification is working,” Olson added.
Mr. Fries is equally excited. “I’ve spent a lot of my professional life involved in game development and the evolution of game technology. To see game design and game play techniques adding so much value to the field of education is truly exciting,” said Mr. Fries. “I’m really looking forward to joining the Recurrence team and becoming a part of the next generation of learning software.”
Recurrence’s first product is a business game, called The Signature Case Study, in which students enact various high-level executive roles, such as CEO or CFO, as they guide an airline through a series of challenges and crises, each of which is based on real-world data. Working as a team, students make crucial decisions, from business strategy to budgeting, that will determine the fate of the airline.
The response from both students and professors has been overwhelmingly positive. As a result, the game has been quickly adopted by prestigious universities and colleges across the country, such as the University of Washington, the University of Colorado (Boulder), Penn State University, and Florida International University.
The addition of Fries to the Board of Directors is expected to accelerate the adoption of The Signature Case Study nationally and globally.
Public Relations, Recurrence Inc, http://recurrenceinc.com, +1 2069636184, [email protected]
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