Eric Preisz is the CEO of GarageGames and has been involved with engine development for over thirteen years. Prior to GarageGames, he was a Department Chair at Full Sail University and the managing partner of a serious games consulting firm. He is passionately interested in performance optimization and co-authored the book Video Game Optimization. He worked for companies and organizations including Disney, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Defense and has given presentations at Microsoft Research, GDC, and a Congress Caucasus.