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Angel Munoz
Angel Munoz (EYN-juhl moo-NYAWS) is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewWorld.com, Inc., a Texas corporation with investments in digital media and interactive entertainment.
In the March 2000 issue of Texas Monthly magazine, Munoz was selected as one of the Top 25 “Most Powerful Texans in High Tech” and was featured on the magazine's cover along with Leonard H. Roberts, the former Chairman and CEO of RadioShack (Tandy) and the late writer, artist and community activist Ana Sisnett.
Born in New York City, Munoz became a stockbroker in 1985 and later launched his own investment banking firm, specializing in creating markets and raising capital for emerging high tech companies. On June 14, 1995 he sold his firm's assets to a United Kingdom investment group.
On November 1, 1995, Munoz launched the Adrenaline Vault, an award-winning online source of video game information. Munoz is the site's publisher, and he's also the producer of the Avault Podcast, a popular weekly talk show about video games.
On June 27, 1997, Munoz coined the term Cyberathlete and launched the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), the world’s first organization to sanction computer game competitions as a professional sport. Under Munoz' management the CPL hosted 60 international events in the USA, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, sanctioned 600 international qualifiers and awarded over $3 million in cash prizes. Due to his pioneering work at the CPL, Munoz is commonly referred to as the "father of professional gaming." On August 25, 2008, the CPL was sold to an investment group from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
In 1999, Munoz led efforts that resulted in the enactment of the Federal Trade Commission's 100th law enforcement action targeting deception on the Internet. Various national publications reported his role in obtaining this regulatory action, including ZDNet News and The New York Times.
On March 6, 2001, Munoz co-founded the Cyberathlete Amateur League (CAL), once the largest online video game league in the USA. At its peak CAL had 600,000 registered members. On November 14, 2008, CAL was sold to CPL Holding Group, Ltd.
Munoz also owned a Dallas art gallery named Reflection Fine Art, now Samuel Lynne Galleries co-owned by restaurant entrepreneur Philip J. Romano and contemporary artist Jay D. Miller. Additionally, Munoz had a small acting role in the low-budget film Striking Range with Lou Diamond Phillips and Yancy Butler, he wrote the forward to the book Monster Gaming, and was featured in the fourth chapter of the book Smartbomb, a "candid portrait of the mavericks and geniuses behind the videogame revolution."
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Selected Interviews
Legacy Network Gaming - October 28, 2009
Primera Hora - June 30, 2009 (Spanish)
Primera Hora - June 25, 2009 (Spanish)
PC Gamer magazine - February 2007
GamesIndustry.biz - January 30, 2007
Fort Worth Weekly - January 24, 2007
Dallas Business Journal - January 5, 2007 - page two
Game Informer Magazine - January 2007
FOX News Channel - December 2, 2006 (TV)
Wired magazine - October 2006
BBC News - June 17, 2006
The SportsPage - March 2, 2006
Computer America Radio Show - December 16, 2005 (radio)
Forbes magazine - December 12, 2005
New York Times - December 6, 2005
New York Times - December 4, 2005 (video)
USA Today - November 20, 2005
The Guardian (UK) - November 15, 2005
EGM PC magazine - (Portuguese) April 2005 - translation
ESPN magazine - April 2005
Games for Windows magazine - March 2005
Boston Globe - January 23, 2005
Computer Power User magazine - November 2004
New York Times - October 7, 2004
PC Action Magazine - April 2004 - page two
Loft Magazine - December 2003
Bungie - October 28, 2003
The Christian Monitor - August 8, 2003
Boston Globe - July 2003
Hispanic Trends magazine - July 2003
Entrepreneur Magazine - April 2003
The SportsPage - February 21-27, 2003
The Dallas Morning News - December 28, 2002
Game Zone - December 11, 2002
Nexos | American Airlines magazine - (Spanish) December 2002
The Dallas Morning News - August 31, 2002
UKTerrorist - August 16, 2002
Entertainment Weekly - August 16, 2002
D Magazine - July 2002 - page two & page three
Wired magazine - May 2002
Wired magazine - April 2002
The Tech Mag - January 04, 2002
Investor’s Business Daily - January 02, 2002
CNN Headline News - December 05, 2001 (TV)
Valiente magazine - July 2001 - page two, page three & page four - COVER
Computer Gaming World magazine - May 2001 - page two
Smart Computing - October 2000
Hispanic Magazine - September 2000
GaMMeR Magazine - May 12, 2000
Dallas Observer - April 13-19, 2000
Texas Monthly Biz - March 2000 - COVER
Rolling Stone magazine - October 1999
Wired magazine - April 1999
Selected Photos
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