Tina Zwolinski

Tina is the CEO and Co-founder of skillsgapp, the first to offer location-based career video games – Skillionaire Games – focused on growing a more vetted entry-level talent pool to meet industry’s greatest workforce needs. Skillionaire Games is accelerating and diversifying the workforce pipeline by helping youth gain the career and pathway awareness and access necessary to participate in the skills-based jobs sector that includes life science, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, healthcare and durable skills. Headquartered in South Carolina, with a West Coast office in California, Skillionaire Games’ mission is to connect youth, ages 13-22+, to life-changing careers through game-changing play. In 2023, Skillionaire Games was named a Top 100 Workforce Company, Trendsetter and Cool Tool by EdTech Digest, and, in 2022, was awarded the Best Global Game – Special Project Category by Games for Change and the People’s Choice Award by Facebook Gaming. 

For two decades prior to founding skillsgapp, Tina launched and led ZWO, an award-winning branding and marketing firm focused on economic and workforce development and youth. Tina contributes her expertise as a member of the Innovate Fund Advisory Board, the TransformSC Steering Committee, the SC Tech Advisory Forum, and the Greenville County Workforce Development Board Youth Committee.

She is also dedicated to mentoring teens.