Brent Phillips
My background is in software engineering, and I was in graduate school at MIT working towards my PhD when the Internet boom hit in the mid 1990s...
...so I left MIT to pursue a career as a web site and video game entrepreneur. In fact, my very first "real-world" project after MIT was to create the web site for the release of the Sony Playstation in 1995!
I helped build Web sites for Fortune 500 clients including Sony, Disneyland, and Nissan Motors, and I founded a video game studio (Lyra Studios) where I led the team that created the world's very first graphic 3D real-time MMORPG, called Underlight.