Company: SKLZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001801661-25-000050
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Company: Skillz Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 10
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 Wakeford previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Colossal from March 2021 to September 2022 and in various roles at Gen.G, including President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, from June 2017 to October 2022. He has extensive experience in the game industry having served as Chief Operating Officer of Kabam from 2014 to 2017, where he helped grow Kabam to a globally diverse game company with over 1,000 employees in seven countries. Kabam games were played by over 500 million people around the world and generated over a billion dollars in revenue. Mr. Wakeford helped lead the sale of Kabam to Netmarble Games for $800 million. Mr. Wakeford is a co-inventor on over 80 issued patents in the game industry and a prolific industry spokesperson featured in Bloomberg, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and ESPN. Mr. Wakeford received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California. Mr. Wakeford’s leadership experience and industry experience make him a valued member of the Board.

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Executive Officers of the Company (as of November 3, 2025)

Andrew ParadiseSee “Directors and Management—Director Biographical Information” above for a description of Mr. Paradise’s experience.Chief Executive OfficerAge: 43Nikul D. PatelMr. Patel joined the Company as a corporate secondee in July 2023 from King & Spalding LLP and was appointed as the Interim General Counsel on March 10, 2024.  Prior to that, Mr. Patel was a Senior Associate at King & Spalding LLP since May 2021. Prior to joining King & Spalding LLP, Mr. Patel was an associate at Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP from March 2017 to May 2021. Mr. Patel received his Juris Doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Interim General CounselAge: 38Gaetano FranceschiMr. Franceschi joined the Company on January 8, 2024 to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Prior to joining Skillz, Mr. Franceschi served as the Senior Vice President and Head of Finance of Compass from March 2023 until December 2023, where he also served as the Vice President