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Management
Marcus
Matthews
Marcus is the CEO and co-founder of Blue Heat Games and has
a wealth of quality game development experience. Marcus was
Senior Producer at Sega of America, and in that role, Marcus
headed Sega Sports and was responsible for developing all
sports games for the launch of Dreamcast, which included NFL
2K and NBA 2K. The games produced by Marcus have sold over
1.5 million units worldwide to date. Before joining Sega in
1996, Marcus worked the interactive arena at IBM's Multimedia
Publishing Studio and Turner Broadcasting's games group and
produced products involving Turner entities such as Castle
Rock, New Line Cinema, and Hanna Barbera. Before starting
Blue Heat, Marcus was also a consultant for Venture-Atlantic,
a private equity firm that advised early stage startup technology
firms. Marcus received a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering
from Georgia Tech in 1992.
Ken Lightner
Ken is the CTO and co-founder of Blue Heat Games. Ken Lightner
has over 12 years of experience writing, designing, scheduling,
and programming games. Originally, Ken helped found Holistic
Design where he worked as a third party developer for leading
publishers like Mindscape, Take Two Interactive, Red Storm,
Microprose, and Segasoft. His numerous PC credits include
Best Buy top ten selling Mall Tycoon, Final Liberation - Epic
Warhammer 40K, Emperor of the Fading Suns, and strategy game
of the year, Machiavelli the Prince. At Blue Heat Games, he
works on most of the company's lineup including MLB Baseball
2004 and Sega Snowboarding. Ken also has credits in the paper
game industry including the Noble Armada miniature game and
the Real Life Roleplaying line at Holistic, which includes
Colombia: d20. His fiction work appeared in the horror anthology,
Book of All Flesh, by Eden Studios. Ken received his M.B.A.
(4.0) from Georgia State University in 1996.
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