Niccolo de Masi - dMY Technology Group

Niccolo de Masi is an experienced public company chief executive officer and board member with deep expertise in mobile, deep tech, and creating software and hardware ecosystems.

He serves or will serve on the Board of all three dMY Technology SPAC-IPOs post close: Rush Street Interactive, Genius Sports Group, and IonQ.

Over the course of his career, Mr. de Masi has consummated over 25 mergers and acquisitions and has raised approximately $3 billion in equity to support public and private companies he has led. He has held leadership positions in five mobile companies: Glu Mobile, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLUU) (“Glu”), Essential Products, Inc. (“Essential”), Xura, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: MESG) (“Xura”), Hands-On Mobile and Monstermob Group PLC (formerly LSE: MOB) (“Monstermob”). Mr. de Masi became Chief Executive Officer of Glu and of Monstermob before the age of 30.

From December 2014 through its sale to Electronic Arts in 2021 for $2.4B, Mr. de Masi was Chairman of Glu Mobile, a gaming leader. Mr. de Masi was President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2010 to November 2016 and was instrumental in creating many of the app ecosystem’s “firsts,” including developing mobile “freemium” gaming (of which Glu has published approximately one hundred titles), evolving the Android and iOS rewarded advertising ecosystems, and developing some of the world’s first mobile virtual reality (“VR”) and augmented reality (“AR”) experiences. Mr. de Masi additionally helped to create the entire category of celebrity games, launching Kim Kardashian: Hollywood in June 2014—a unique partnership with Kim Kardashian.

Between October 2018 and January 2020 Niccolo served on the Board of Directors of Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI). He also served as President, Products and Solutions and Chief Innovation Officer. Resideo, which was spun-off from Honeywell International, Inc. in October 2018, is a leading global provider of critical comfort, residential thermal solutions and security solutions primarily in residential environments that operate in the IoT space. Resideo reported approximately $5 billion in net revenue in 2020 with approximately 13,000 employees.

Mr. de Masi serves on the Leadership Council of the UCLA Grand Challenges.

Mr. de Masi has served in numerous additional executive positions:

President of Essential, a mobile phone hardware company from November 2016 to October 2018. At Essential, he partnered with Andy Rubin, who oversaw the development of Android, to create a new full-stack consumer electronics brand and raised approximately $330 million from strategic investors that included Amazon.com, Inc.; FoxConn Technology Group and Tencent Holdings Limited.
Director on Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Xura from November 2015 until it was taken private in August 2016. Xura was initially part of Comverse, Inc. From this activity, Mr. de Masi gained mobile software experience in the messaging space. (Comverse, Inc. was acquired for approximately $643 million by Siris Capital Group, LLC.)
Chief Executive Officer of Hands-On Mobile from 2008 to 2009. Hands-On Mobile is a feature-phone mobile app company based in San Francisco. During his tenure, Mr. de Masi led the company in raising $130 million in venture funding.
Chief Executive Officer of Monstermob from 2004 to 2007. Monstermob, the London-listed mobile entertainment pioneer, grew its market capitalization over 20 times during his tenure.

Mr. de Masi received first class B.A. and M.Sci degrees in physics from Cambridge University.