Management Team

Nick Mellios, Chief Executive, Co-Founder

Nick Mellios is responsible for overall technical and strategic management and brings a broad background in technology and business development to his lead role at Yummy. Nick has been responsible for raising financing and assembling the technical team to build Yummy’s On-Demand Application platform. Nick also leads business development efforts negotiating agreements with publishers, developers and broadband service providers.

Prior to Yummy, Nick was the Director of Marketing and Sales for Ensemble Systems where he led the marketing and sales efforts for Ensemble's software development tools. Prior to Ensemble, he was Business Manager at Hughes Aircraft in the New Business Development group where he was the financial lead in bidding for large-scale international air traffic control contracts. Nick obtained an academic and sports scholarship to the University of British Columbia where he obtained a BSc in Mathematics and an MBA.

Chris Astolfo, Vice President, Business Development

Chris Astolfo’s chief responsibilities include the aggregation of quality game content for Yummy services as well as working with Yummy distribution partners to develop, deploy, incubate, and finally optimize their Yummy Games services. Chris was schooled at the University of Toronto in Economic Strategy and Mathematics and he brings to Yummy, 12 years of Games Industry experience. Previously, Chris was responsible for Bell Canada’s Games on Demand Platform and his team launched a children’s Games on Demand product as well as a more mainstream games on demand service. Chris’ greatest strengths are in sales channel and product development where he provides professional consultation to Yummy partners who wish to provide Telco/Cable Co. billing as well as bundled offers delivered through direct marketing and direct sales channel activities.

Christopher Hennebery, Vice President of Software Distribution

Christopher Hennebery manages the Shield product lines (GameShield and SoftwareShield) at Yummy Interactive. Christopher has extensive experience in entrepreneurship and ebusiness development. In the last 15 years Christopher has managed his own consulting firm and built one of the largest community-based sports associations in Canada. Christopher has an extended background in electronic software distribution and has held director positions at Protexis Inc. and ACD Systems. At both of these organizations Christopher was responsible for building online distribution channels for games and software and for exploring new business models in digital distribution. At Yummy Christopher continues down this path by expanding the reach of the Shield product line and architecting new revenue streams that leverage Yummy's intellectual property. Christopher has an MBA in IT Management and has sat on several boards including the International Internet Marketing Association.

Fiacc O’Brien Moran, Chief Technology Officer

Fiacc O’Brien Moran leads Yummy’s product development team and is responsible for ongoing design , development and maintenance of the Yummy Games Quick Launch platform and the Shield line of DRM products. He also works directly with Yummy’s distribution partners to integrate Yummy’s technology. Fiacc holds a B.Sc. in Commercial Software Development from Waterford Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Information Security from the University of London. Prior to joining Yummy, Fiacc worked as a Senior Software Engineer with the TSSG research group at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. There he worked on the design and development of a system for integrating commercial radio station play out systems with digital media purchasing. Before moving to the TSSG, he was a Software Engineer with Dataworks, a software consulting company based in Ireland. Prior to Dataworks he worked with marketing automation solution provider, Anuuncio Software Inc., in Mountain View California.