Ray Muzyka

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Dr. Ray Muzyka is the General Manager, Chairman/CEO and was Co-Executive Producer at BioWare Corp. He co-founded BioWare in 1995 with the other co-founder and President of BioWare, Dr. Greg Zeschuk. After selling BioWare to Electronic Arts in 2008, Muzyka became a Vice-President at EA in addition to his General Manager role at BioWare.

Muzyka and Zeschuk were the co-executive producers on Shattered Steel, the Baldur's Gate series (PC), MDK2, MDK2: Armageddon, the Neverwinter Nights series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox and PC), Jade Empire (XBox) and Mass Effect (Xbox 360 and PC), released in 2007, a sci-fi action RPG based on another original BioWare intellectual property. Muzyka and Zeschuk are also working on the upcoming Dragon Age, an epic fantasy roleplaying game for PC set in a new BioWare-created universe, as well as Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, a DS RPG title set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, to be published by Sega.

As of 2008, BioWare has a total of seven project teams at two locations (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Austin, Texas, USA). BioWare is also selling content directly to its fans through the BioWare Community at www.bioware.com and store.bioware.com. BioWare also formed a new substudio based in Austin in late 2005, developing an as-yet-unannounced new MMO. BioWare and LucasArts announced a partnership in 2007.

In addition to his project development role, Muzyka also co-manages the financial, human resources, operations, marketing and legal business side of BioWare, and has completed his executive MBA program at the Ivey School of Business, UWO.

Muzyka was from 2001-2008 a board member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, and serves as a Director and Co-Chairman of CodeBaby Corp., another software company developing a next generation interface for digital media and the Internet. More information about CodeBaby is available at www.codebaby.com.

An avid poker player who plays in the WSOP and other events each year, Muzyka won the inaugural DICE poker tournament [1] in 2006 which featured a range of notable poker celebrities such as Scott Fischman, Chris Ferguson and Perry Friedman. He competed in the 2008 WCPC Main Event (Western Canadian Poker Classic, $1600 buy-in Main Event) and chopped the final table with the final four players to take home the 2008 WCPC ring.