With more than 20 years of production, business, and leadership experience in the game industry, Mike currently serves as VP of Creative Technology at Fuel Youth in Seattle. Mike began his carrier in video games working as a designer and artist before co-founding Surreal Software in 1995. In 2004 Midway purchased Surreal after creating several successful franchises including the Drakan and The Suffering series, among others. Mike then moved to Microsoft as Executive Producer for Kinect, then served as VP/GM for SoftKinetic, where he focused to expand natural gesture technology and experiences to new platforms. He currently keeps Fuel innovating new technologies for both game and business executions, and is a prolific thought-leader on the ways technology will shape the future of creativity and play.
