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Angel Munoz
Angel Munoz (EYN-juhl moo-NYAWS) is Co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of NewWorld.com, Inc., an investment and management firm with projects in the video game industry. He's now the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of newly formed Mass Luminosity, Inc., a social network and technology company on the verge of launching a new social platform.
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 front cover of the magazine's High-Tech Issue, 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 Manhattan, New York, Angel Munoz became a stockbroker in 1985. In 1990 he launched New World Investments, Inc., an investment banking firm that specialized in emerging technologies. On June 12, 1995 he sold the firm's investment assets and entered the video games industry.
On November 1, 1995, Munoz launched The Adrenaline Vault, an award-winning website that still is recognized today as one of the most trusted sources of unbiased information about video games.
On June 26, 1997, Angel Munoz coined the term "cyberathlete" by merging the words "cyberspace" and "athlete," and launched the Cyberathlete Professional League (or CPL). The CPL is the pioneering organization that globally defined and sanctioned video game competitions as a professional sport. Under Munoz's ten-year management, the CPL hosted 60 international tournament events in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The CPL also sanctioned 600 international qualifiers and awarded over $3 million in cash prizes. Due to his pioneering work at the CPL, Angel Munoz is regarded as the father of professional gaming (also known as electronic sports), now a multibillion-dollar global industry.
On August 23, 2010, Munoz finalized the sale of the CPL, and its wholly-owned subsidiary CAL, to the investment firm WoLong Ventures Pte. Ltd. of Singapore.
Munoz also had a small acting role in the film Striking Range with Lou Diamond Phillips and Yancy Butler, and has been the subject of several documentaries, including American Gamer and G4M3RS. Furthermore, Munoz wrote the forward to the book Monster Gaming, and his story was included in the books Smartbomb, Game Boys and Dungeons and Dreamers.
At Mass Luminosity Munoz manages social network promotions on Facebook and Twitter, and oversees the development of a new social platform experience.
You can follow him on Twitter or add him to your friends list on Facebook.
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Facebook - May 27, 2011
Dallas Morning News - October 19, 2010
HLTV.org - October 10, 2010
TEK9 Networks - March 11, 2010
Legacy Network Gaming - October 28, 2009
Primera Hora - June 30, 2009 (Spanish)
Primera Hora - June 25, 2009 (Spanish)
Forbes magazine - April 04, 2009
ProGam3r magazine - August 2007
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
National Public Radio (NPR) - May 28, 2002 (Radio)
Wired magazine - May 2002
Wired magazine - April 2002
The Tech Mag - January 04, 2002
Investor’s Business Daily - January 02, 2002
Dallas Business Journal - December 07, 2001
CNN Headline News - December 05, 2001 (TV)
Valiente Magazine - July 2001 - page two, page three & page four - COVER
San Antonio Express News - May 21, 2000
Computer Gaming World magazine - May 2001 - page two
CNET - November 15, 2000
Smart Computing - October 2000
Dallas Business Journal - September 12, 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
Forth Worth Star Telegram - July 23, 1998
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