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Blue Marble Game Co. Appoints Melanie Hardin to Senior Advisor Role
Blue Marble Game Company today announced the appointment of Melanie
Hardin to the role of Senior Advisor. Blue Marble Game Co, with its
emphasis on the development of therapeutic neurogaming software has been
in growth mode since its incubation at the Business Technology Center in
2014. The latest in a run of executive appointments, Ms. Hardin, who is
a partner in the San Marino Venture Group, will focus her efforts on
advising on growth strategy, marketing and potential funding
opportunities as well as executive coaching.
"As a member of our advisory board, Melanie has shown an amazing ability
to grasp what our potential is as a company and help us achieve our
goals, through organic growth as well as in partnership with other
important players" said Blue Marble's CEO, Sheryl Flynn PT, PhD. "She
has an uncanny talent for identifying opportunities to add value which,
along with her extensive capital markets experience, resonates with
investors and enterprise partners."
"Blue Marble is in such an exciting time in its growth," said Ms.
Hardin. "I look forward to bringing my talents to bear in identifying
and helping implement a strategy to maximize the value of this company
and take it to the next stage."
Blue Marble Co., which just recently announced a Department of Defense
research grant of nearly one million dollars, is poised to become one of
the premiere disruptive health related digital game design/development
studios. The firm's strategy is to combine the strengths of empirical
evidence with entertainment to improve health and wellness, with a goal
of enhancing rehabilitation and wellness by developing digital games
that make rehabilitation more fun, meaningful, engaging and
cost-effective.
ABOUT MELANIE HARDIN:
Melanie Hardin was mst recently Executive Vice President of Investment
Platform Solutions and strategic growth for LPL Financial. LPL Financial
is the largest independent broker dealer in the US, with more than
13,500 financial advisors and approximately 700 financial institutions
and over $450B in assets. Melanie led the strategic expansion of LPL's
comprehensive wealth management services, which include the fee-based
platforms, due diligence, field marketing support, and strategic
relationship management with investment companies to attract assets to
LPL's custodial platform.
Ms. Hardin has more than 25 years of financial services, business
management experience. Prior to joining LPL Financial in 2010, she
worked for Automatic Data Processing (News - Alert) as Division Vice President for
Strategy and Business Development with a special focus on new revenue,
products, and opportunities.. In this role, Melanie was responsible for
developing and launching products and product extensions for a $1.2
billion Tax division. Before ADP, Ms. Hardin was previously a Director
and Chief Executive Officer of the newly organized Charles Schwab, U.K.,
Limited, approved by the Financial Services Authority as a securities
and options dealer to provide US securities business for the UK private
investor market. Earlier, she was Vice President of Market Development
for Wells Fargo (News - Alert) Bank. Ms. Hardin earned an MBA from the Yale School of
Management and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the
University of San Francisco. Melanie is a member of the Strategic
Advisory Board for FTV Capital, a growth equity investment firm and she
is a partner in the San Marino Venture Group.
ABOUT BLUE MARBLE CO:
Blue Marble Game Co. is a digital game design/development studio that is
transforming healthcare delivery through data driven innovation. Our
strategy is to combine the strengths of empirical evidence with
entertainment to improve health and wellness. Our goal is to enhance
rehabilitation and wellness by developing digital games that make
rehabilitation more fun, meaningful, engaging and cost-effective.
Our comprehensive and cost-affordable interactive
digital-health-game ecosystem improves adherence, is accessible, offers
real-time analytics, improves communication across team members,
eliminates duplication of services, and offers unbiased reports. This
ecosystem is grounded in evidence based medicine and best practices that
positively impact healthcare outcomes, resiliency, wellness and quality
of life! Our system expands and enhances communication between providers
and clients, to manage their care, and to track their progress in an
effort to ensure therapeutic interventions are available anytime and
anywhere.
Our games entertain, engage, educate, and challenge physical and
cognitive skills for people of all ages and abilities. With
comprehensive game performance, data tracking, and analytics our games
do more than offer players rewarding entertainment; they also directly
update medical professionals with their client's valuable, accurate and
detailed human performance metrics. Players can play the games anywhere
at any time using a mobile tablet.
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