In 2003, we launched Second Life, the pioneering virtual world that’s been enjoyed by millions of people and seen billions of dollars transacted among users in its economy.
In 2019, we unveiled Tilia, a registered money services business and fully licensed money transmitter that powers virtual economies.
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Seattle, Boston, Davis, and Charlottesville.
The Tao of Linden was created at the very beginning of Linden Lab, and it continues to be our guiding principles to this day.
Say, “Good morning!” Be passionate and civil. Disagree respectfully. Don’t say anything about someone you wouldn’t say to them. Have empathy for the amazing people who use our products. View our worlds through their eyes.
Trust each other and be trustworthy.
No one person can do it all. We all bring different value to our work.
Value different perspectives, different points of view. Value everyone’s different life experiences, and the different paths we all took to get here. We will make better decisions, better products, and better lives.
Celebrate our wins. Learn from our losses. If you don’t fail sometimes you aren’t really trying.
Have strong opinions. Defend your ideas. Then make a decision. Once we make a decision, even if it didn’t go your way, own it. Let go of your baggage and start marching in the direction of everyone else.
What we do is too big, too complicated for any one person to hold in their head. There are more wonders out there than any one person can imagine. Our creators will build worlds we could never have anticipated. Our coworkers will invent things that would have never occurred to us. Be open to all of the possibilities.
Test. Experiment. Learn. Challenge your preconceived notions. Check conventional wisdom, especially your own. You will not find the answers to your questions in a conference room.
Shout your discoveries from the rooftops. Teach everyone around you. Mentor and be mentored. Help others use what you know.
Our work brings people together, builds communities. Our work helps people understand who they are, helps them be better. Our work brings empathy, helps people see the world through others’ eyes. Settle for nothing less than changing the world for the better.
Brad Oberwager has spent his entire career in technology and consumer focused companies as an entrepreneur and board member.
Currently, he sits on the board of two public companies, Asure Software (NASDAQ: ASUR) and Better World (NASDAQ: BWACU). He is the chairman of two companies he founded, Jyve and Sundia and is also on the board of TEGSCO (aka AutoReturn). He owned Bare Snacks, acquired by PepsiCo in 2018.
Brad was Vice-chair of YPO International, a global organization of 25,000 CEOs.
Brad received his BS from Georgetown University, his MBA from the Wharton School and lives in San Francisco.
Aston Waldman is Chief Financial Officer at Linden Lab, overseeing Finance, Accounting, Tax, IT and Facilities.
Prior to Linden Lab, Aston served as Corporate Controller at Trion Worlds, Inc. Aston began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he worked on a wide range of clients including Chevron, URS and SunPower.
He is a CPA and received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia.
Cammy has extensive leadership experience in product, operations and people roles. She started her career working in engineering, product and change management in the Financial Services Group of Accenture. After taking a year off to travel the world, she launched and operated several companies. She was VP Product at eCommerce site, more.com, and COO of outsourcing provider Prialto. Cammy also served as CEO of outsourcing provider Camp6 and President of luxury educational travel company, World Leaders Travel. She was COO at Bare Snacks, which was acquired in 2014 by VMG and sold to PepsiCo in 2018. In 2015, she cofounded ‘skills as a service’ platform, Jyve Corporation, and served as COO and CPO.
Trina quarterbacks the business critical people function as Linden Lab’s Chief People Officer while challenging conventions to work smarter, reach farther and drive more alignment and impact with her diversified experience in people strategy & operations, talent management, organizational change and leadership coaching.
With a progressive approach to HR, Trina transforms culture by providing clarity, shared vocabularies and direct communication frameworks that foster transparency, promote accountability and enable intentional collaboration. She aims to be an approachable ally and advocate for team members across all business levels, and her passion is ignited by building diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures of belonging where employees feel respected and valued for their unique contributions. She sparks engagement by delivering a best-in-class employee experience and serves as an active investor in the team’s continuous development and growth.
Prior to joining Linden Lab, Trina held leadership roles with Jyve Corporation, VSC and Jump Associates where she coached leaders to success with strategic thought partnership and developed strong, unified teams.
Outside of the virtual office, Trina is engaged in her community as a mentor and advisor, dedicated to amplifying development opportunities for women to advance as leaders. She also serves as a pro-bono death doula and an active proponent in the harm reduction space.
Ray Johnson is CTO at Tilia. Ray has published multiple technical papers, spoke at various technical conferences, and contributed to a book on internet technology. Ray has earned a bachelor's degree from The George Washington University (summa cum laude) and a masters degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology (summa cum laude).
Ray brings over 25 years of experience managing engineering teams in Silicon Valley at such companies as Lockheed Artificial Research Center (AIC), Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Scriptics, Full Tilt Poker and Ingenio. Just prior to joining Tilia, Ray was SVP of Engineering at Yellowpages.com where he helped grow the company to over $1B in internet advertising revenue.
Anya Kanevsky heads up Second Life Product, where she has overseen a shift to growth, a stronger, more balanced economy, movement towards better community cohesion, and an overall forward-looking approach.
Prior to working for Linden Lab (first joining as a contractor in 2009 and then full-time in 2014), she was involved in a number of industries, including tech, higher ed, and oil & gas. She enjoys exploring worlds both virtual and physical and takes pride in building bridges - personal and professional.
Anya holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s from same in Computer Science & Psychology. She finds leading the Second Life product a joy because it allows her to draw on both areas of study.
Eric Nix is Vice President of Product Operations at Linden Lab where he works to bring the best of product and support decisions on a daily operational basis to the virtual world platform for Second Life. He also maintains oversight on how all of the various teams within Linden Lab can best work together for the highest good of the Residents and the business.
Eric started as a Resident in 2004 before joining Linden Lab in 2007. Prior to joining Linden Lab, he held leadership roles focused on customer service and product development where he always maintained a customer-first focus while striving to deliver best-in-class products and services. Eric has a deep passion for creativity and uses that to bring enjoyment to others. He continues to evolve his skills to include virtual worlds, 3D Design, 3D printing, modeling, photography and filmography.
With over twenty years of experience in the games industry, Andrew is an expert at building teams and launching groundbreaking games across genres that push the limits of their respective platforms. His product and technical expertise spans across multiple mobile, PC, and console games, as well as platform and SDK development, web applications, and cloud services.
Prior to joining Linden Lab, Andrew held senior-level positions at Level Ex, Zume, DoubleDown Interactive, IGT, and Microsoft. Andrew has worked on iconic franchises such as Halo, Forza Motorsport, Fable, Crackdown, and Wheel of Fortune. Andrew has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.
David is the General Counsel at Linden Lab. In his capacity as General Counsel, David oversees all legal affairs of the company and collaborates closely on commercialization efforts in payments related offerings. David brings more than 20 years of experience as a legal executive in the payments industry. David started in the payments industry at CyberSource Corporation, a company he helped take public in 1999 and where he served as General Counsel until the company was acquired by Visa in 2010. At Visa, David served as SVP and Chief Counsel, where he and his team supported merchant related initiatives globally. After Visa, David held various General Counsel roles at startups that focused on blockchain, bitcoin, and capital markets.
Brad Oberwager has spent his entire career in technology and consumer focused companies as an entrepreneur and board member.
Currently, he sits on the board of two public companies, Asure Software (NASDAQ: ASUR) and Better World (NASDAQ: BWACU). He is the chairman of two companies he founded, Jyve and Sundia and is also on the board of TEGSCO (aka AutoReturn). He owned Bare Snacks, acquired by PepsiCo in 2018.
Brad was Vice-chair of YPO International, a global organization of 25,000 CEOs.
Brad received his BS from Georgetown University, his MBA from the Wharton School and lives in San Francisco.
Mr. J. Randall (Randy) Waterfield, is the Chairman of Waterfield Holdings, which traces its origins to 1928. After selling the largest private mortgage company in the US and largest Indiana based bank in 2006 and 2007 respectively, he diversified into technology, manufacturing and other industries.
Randy holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a graduate of Harvard University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Red Oak Partners, Waterfield Technologies, Linden Research, Inc. and has previously served on the boards of YPO (and was the 2017-2018 Chairman of YPO), Asure Software ( NASDAQ: ASUR), SMTC Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTX), RF Industries (NASDAQ: RFIL), among others. He is also the Co-Chairman of Missouri Cobalt, LLC, the largest cobalt mine in North America.
Randy supports various education, environmental and community development charitable causes through the nonprofit Waterfield Foundation and J. Randall Waterfield Foundation.
Raj Date was the first-ever Deputy Director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As the Bureau’s second-ranking official, he helped steward the CFPB’s strategy, its operations, and its policy agenda. He also served on the senior staff committee of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and as a statutory deputy to the FDIC Board.
Before being appointed Deputy Director, Raj acted as the interim leader of the new agency, serving as the Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. He led the CFPB for most of the first six months after its launch.
Currently, Raj is the Managing Partner of Fenway Summer, an advisory and investment firm focused on financial services and financial technology. In that capacity, he chairs the investment committee of Fenway Summer Ventures, a fintech venture capital fund, and works with clients of FS Vector, the fintech advisory firm. He also serves as a Director for a number of innovative firms in financial services: Prosper, the marketplace lender; Green Dot, the bank holding company; Circle, the digital asset firm; Grasshopper, a de novo bank; and College Ave, a private student lender.
He is a graduate of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley (highest honors) and the Harvard Law School (magna cum laude).