TradeOff: The Financial Capability Solution

A global digital media platform that uses interaction and gamification to enable people to make better informed life and financial decisions.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Currency AUD
  • Founded January 2014
  • Employees 12
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website tradeoffgame.com

Company Summary

The OECD research identifies that 2bn people in the G20 do not have basic financial capability. This significantly affects the quality of life of these people.
TradeOff 's solution is a premium entertainment based, interactive and highly customisable digital platform that uses gamification. Participants are able to experience their lives in the virtual world and then make better informed life and money decisions in the real world.

Team

  • Andrew Gilkes
    Executive Vice President

  • Mike Burden
    Founder and Chairman

    Mike has been a senior manager in both financial services and media and communications companies in the UK, Europe and Australia for the past 30 years. Wanting to contribute back to society, he identified that financial capability as the issue and chose gamification as the solution because it both scales and changes behaviour. Mike is also focused on building a financially successful company.

  • Ben Sawyer
    Game Architect

  • Hal Josephson
    Senior Vice President, Relationship Management

    Hal has more than 40 years experience in relationships and sales and marketing in both North America and Australasia in the games and media and entertainment.

Advisors

  • Gilbert and Tobin
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Ernst and Young
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Mike Burden
    CEO
    Andrew Gilkes
    Vice President, Relationships
    Unconfirmed
    Matthew Needham
    CIO
    Unconfirmed

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