Robert Garriott: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:03, 25 May 2015 editCommunal t (talk \| contribs)Extended confirmed users1,205 edits Moved from Category:Video game development to Category:People in the video game industry ← Previous edit		Revision as of 18:28, 20 February 2016 edit undoKasparBot (talk \| contribs)1,549,811 edits migrating Persondata to Wikidata, please help, see challenges for this article Next edit →
Line 8:		Line 8:
	<references/>		<references/>

	{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see ]. -->
	\| NAME = Garriott, Robert
	\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
	\| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American businessman
	\| DATE OF BIRTH = December 7, 1956
	\| PLACE OF BIRTH =
	\| DATE OF DEATH =
	\| PLACE OF DEATH =
	}}
	{{DEFAULTSORT:Garriott, Robert}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Garriott, Robert}}
	]		]

Revision as of 18:28, 20 February 2016

Robert K. Garriott (born December 7, 1956) is an American computer game industry figure and entrepreneur. He co-founded Origin Systems and Destination Games with his brother, Richard Garriott, and was the CEO of NCsoft-North America until 2008. He is the second-eldest son of NASA astronaut Owen K. Garriott.

Garriott was graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983 with a Master of Science in Management and also earned degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and a master's degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University.

In 1983 co-founded computer game developer Origin Systems with his younger brother Richard "Lord British" Garriott. He was a vice president and later an executive vice president at Electronic Arts (EA) after the company acquired Origin in 1992. Garriott left EA in 1995 and co-founded Destination Games in 2000. Destination was bought by NCsoft in 2001 and he became president and CEO of NCsoft-North America.

This biographical article relating to a video game specialist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.