Amir Rao -- Supergiant Games http://supergiantgames.com
Amir grew up in the very place in which Supergiant Games was headquartered for its first two years -- the same home in which he took up hosting pen-and-paper role-playing sessions at the age of 10. After majoring in English at Columbia University, he joined Electronic Arts to work on the Command & Conquer franchise, where he was responsible for design on Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. He left EA in 2009 to co-found Supergiant Games in his ongoing quest to give back to gaming what gaming's given him. At Supergiant, Amir designs...