About.

Combining a world-class team and a laser focus on the future of media is our recipe for success.

Established in 2019

Holodeck Media  has been producing world-class content for years now, with offices in New York City, NY, and Dubai, UAE. 

Our Manifesto

  • Build an innovative media business to dominate metaverse, gaming and crypto content.
  • Assemble the best team and talent in gaming, metaverse, crypto, and business.
  • Build with maximum capital efficiency and extract synergies between content, IP, and distribution.
  • Create “density of intensity” and make the GCC region the hub for metaverse, gaming and crypto activity.
  • Establish the most powerful customer acquisition and lead generation machine in the world with a captive audience of gaming/metaverse/crypto enthusiasts.

Our Team

Paul "The Profit" Dawalibi
CEO

  • Globally recognized metaverse / gaming expert & influencer (“The Profit of Esports”)
  • Founder, Holodeck & Business of Esports
  • Venture Capitalist – Garage Technology Ventures
  • Founded one of the most successful consolidation plays in Canadian history and 2020 fastest growing company in Canada
  • University of Toronto, computer science
  • MIT, MBA

Henri Arslanian
Partner

  • Former global crypto leader, PWC
  • Named one of the world’s Top Voices in Economy & Finance (LinkedIn)
  • Named #1 most influential individual on finance globally on LinkedIn (Onalytica)
  • Regularly featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and The Financial Times
  • Global top 10 bestselling author (The Future of Finance, 2019)
  • Lawyer and banker by background, current adjunct professor, University of Hong Kong

Gregory Landegger
​​​Partner

  • Venture capital and private equity investor
  • Principal, single family office
  • Former COO/CFO at ThermoEnergy Corporation
  • PE Operational Lead and High Yield Analyst WR 
  • Huff Asset Management
  • Author of longest running daily crypto newsletter
  • Former operations and turn-around executive 
  • Georgetown University

Jimmy Baratta
​​​Chief Gaming Officer

  • Investor and strategic advisor to XSET
  • Business development for GRAMMY and Platinum selling artists 21 Savage, YBN Nahmir, Chief Keef and the Travis Scott x Fortnite event “Astronomical”
  • Head of talent for UPROXX EDGE 
  • Created gaming vertical for social media agency Fallen Media
  • Founded gaming ad network ICEBRKRSCLAN
  • Co-founded nonprofit esports league NACL
  • Civil litigation attorney for over 7 years
  • Instructor of esports at the University of California, Irvine

Holodeck Secret Sauce

Metaverse, gaming and crypto experts with business backgrounds
  • We have deep sector knowledge, insights on trends, industry influence, and a long track record of business experience.
  • We are thought leaders.
Unparalleled network and access
  • Our direct network and advisor networks allow us to access the top metaverse, gaming and crypto talent and partners around the world.
  • We are marquee speakers at major gaming and crypto conferences (SALT FTX Crypto Bahamas, Esports Business Summit, Esports Trade Association, PAX East, Consensus, Token 2049, Davos, Milken, etc), and leaders in gaming and crypto education(UCI Irvine, Saint Peters, SMU, University of Hong  Kong, Udemy, etc).
Headquarters in Dubai, UAE
  • Direct access to the GCC region is a completely untapped opportunity with a young, affluent, digital-savvy population.
  • Being at the crossroads of East and West allows us to produce and serve content to a global market.
  • The GCC becomes a global hub for gaming, metaverse and crypto because we attract top talent, and partners from around the world.