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Ms. Verma founded TAG Networks in May 2003. In her role as CEO, she has secured $20M from private equity investors, established exclusive content agreements with leading game suppliers and global brands, and has filed eight patents covering key proprietary technologies for delivering interactive content under the TAG brand. A strategic planner, veteran marketer and business visionary, Ms. Verma has extensive experience in the video game industry, including Midway Games, Panasonic Interactive Media, Psygnosis (a Sony Company), Atari, Capcom, Data East Europe and Data East USA.

Ms.Verma is a member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation’s CEO Council and was voted one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women In Cable Technology by CableWorld magazine in 2006. She is also a member of the Women in Cable and Telecommunications (WICT) “Tech It Out” mentoring programming which encourages girls to consider technical career paths.



A technological visionary who programmed and sold his first game to Atari at the age of 17, Robert Craig founded TAG Networks with partner Sangita Verma and provided the blueprint behind the company’s patented technology.  Mr. Craig has an extensive background in providing innovative technological solutions for major players in the interactive entertainment space, including Sony Computer Entertainment of America where he was part of the launch team of Sony’s PlayStation. Later, as a consultant, his clients included Sega, Nintendo, Midway Games, Panasonic Interactive Media and Psygnosis. He was essential to Midway’s incorporation of adver-gaming technology—games specifically adapted to furthering the marketing goals of advertisers.  Mr. Craig also consulted for both Data East Japan and Sega Europe, providing high-level creative and technical support, and helping to develop new gaming technologies such as incorporation of full-motion video and the use of 3D technology.




With over 18 years of experience in the consumer entertainment software space, Joe Burfoot currently manages TAG TV’s game studio, which consists of producers, artists, programmers and testers.  He is also one of the original software architects for the TAG platform on which the games run.  Before joining TAG Networks, Mr. Burfoot programmed, marketed and managed several casual games targeted at gaming websites, set-top boxes and mobile phones for Bamium Games.  Previous experience includes being an architect/software engineer for Liberate Technologies and a games programmer for Electronic Arts.