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Nancy Sullivan
781-239-4623
sullivann@babson.edu

The Babson Entrepreneurial Exchange (BEE) is hosting Mark Jung, CEO and co-founder of IGN Entertainment, on Tuesday, November 1st, 7:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium.

Mark Jung founded Snowball.com in February 1999, transitioned it into IGN Entertainment in May 2002 and sold it to News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media subsidiary in October 2005.

Prior to joining IGN, Jung was Chief Executive Officer and founder of Worldtalk Corporation, a leading Internet security company that he took public in 1996 and that has since merged with Tumbleweed Communications.

IGN Entertainment’s media properties attract more than 30 million unique visitors per month and more than 250,000 paying subscribers. IGN’s audience is primarily broadband users who download an average of over 12 million digital entertainment software files per month and actively maintain three of the web’s top ten most popular message board communities.

Jung is an active member of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). He earned an MBA from Stanford University and BS Princeton University.

The event is free and open to the public; register on-line: www.entrepreneurialexchange.org.


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