Sam Kiki?

Sam Kiki is an American gaming and technology executive. He is the founder and CEO of Monkey Tilt.[1][2] He was chief product officer and chief strategy officer of Caesars Interactive Entertainment and later the chief commercial officer of Game Play Network.[1] He is also the co-founder of Manifold Trading.[2] He has been featured on Daily Mirror, Binance, OK! magazine, Complex, Fortune, amongst others.[2][3][4][5]

Early life and education
Kiki was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada to parents of Syrian descent.[2] He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts on scholarship, where he earned a degree in Neuroscience.[2][1][6]

Career
He began his career at MGM Resorts in investor relations, where he worked with senior executives on projects related to sports betting, online gaming, and investor relations.[7][8] He later joined Caesars Interactive as the Head of Product and Strategy.[2] At Caesars, he contributed to the due diligence process for the William Hill acquisition, managed partnerships involving ESPN and the NFL, and co-directed the company’s investment in Superdraft. He then became the chief commercial officer at Game Play Network, where he oversaw commercial strategy, partnerships, and capital development in online gaming.[9][10] Kiki subsequently co-founded Manifold Trading, a quantitative trading firm focused on high-frequency strategies and arbitrage.[11][12][2] He and his team later developed Ather Technologies as a spin-off, leveraging technology from that business to deliver market access and order routing solutions for institutional clients.[1][12] In 2023, Ather Technologies was sold to Versifi.[13]

Monkey Tilt
Kiki is best known as the founder and CEO of Monkey Tilt, a Web3 and crypto-integrated iGaming company.[14] In 2024, Monkey Tilt raised $21 million in an early funding round led by Polychain Capital, marking one of the largest investments in the iGaming blockchain sector at the time.[3] Later in 2024, the company announced an additional $30 million Series A round funding led by U.S hedge fund, Pantera Capital,[15][16][17] to further develop its platform and global reach.[4][18][19] The platform integrates blockchain technology, NFT-based player rewards, and crypto payments, to bridge Web3 culture and mainstream entertainment.[20][21][22] Coverage from AOL Finance and Yahoo Finance described the round as part of a broader effort to make online gaming more social and community-driven,[23][24] being one of the first platforms to support cryptocurrency staking, integrating transactions in bitcoin, ethereum, dogecoin, amongst other stablecoins.[25] Some of the investor includes Tyga and Ryan Garcia.[6][2]

In addition to its gaming, the company partnered with Complex during Super Bowl LIX to host a $1 million jackpot experience,[26][27] as part of the Complex’s Family Style festival in New Orleans.[28][29][5] The event was developed teaming-up with Truck Tilt and West Coast Customs.[30][31][32]