Mark Dyne

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Mark Dyne is a merchant banker based in Los Angeles. He is the Chairman and CEO of Europlay Capital Advisors. Dyne's career as a merchant banker dates back to around the year 2000.Prior to that he was a well-known figure in the video games industry, having been one of the founders of the industry in the early 1980s.

Dyne was one of the founders of the video game industry, with a particular focus on international rights to some of the world's largest video game publishers, including Sierra, Activision,Codemasters, Infogrames, Atari, Electronic Arts amongst others.

Dyne was one of the founders of Ozisoft, which became Sega Ozisoft. Later went on to become the CEO of Sega Gaming Technologies. He purchased in an Management buyout Virgin Interactive from Spelling Entertainment, part of the Viacom Group. He became CEO and Chairman of Virgin Interactive. Dyne served as Chairman of Brilliant Digital Entertainment.

Dyne owned foreign rights to Doom 2. He is particularly known for the game "The Matrix". The developer of the Matrix, Shiny Entertainment, was a subsidiary of Interplay which was in financial difficulty, and Dyne is known for stepping in and saving the Matrix, into which millions had been sunk by restructuring all rights and then selling Shiny Entertainment, which was headed up by David Perry to Infogrames for a reported $55 million, and The Matrix became one of the best selling games worldwide.

Dyne was a member of the board of Skype, together with Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom Kevin Bermeister until it was sold to eBay for over $2.6 billion. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Synthean, is Chairman of Tag-It Pacific, Inc and has been a personal investor in many ventures since the early 1990s, particularly in high-growth Internet ventures. He is renown for his negotiating skills and as a personal confidant to many well-regarded and powerful entrepreneurs. MCV in January 2000 called him "The Deal Maker" and published his Ten Rules of Negotiating.