Team

Brandon Beck co-founded Riot Games after working as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company where he specialized in media and entertainment and private equity. Brandon, whose experience extends from finance and operations to game development, brings a highly strategic perspective to the Riot's first game project. Brandon enjoys working 80-hour weeks, doing spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, and sniping noobs with big guns.

Brandon is able to work continuously for 3 days on end while only surviving on multi-vitamins and diet Dr. Pepper. Analysis and problem solving skills increase dramatically.

Prior to co-founding Riot, Marc worked as a corporate marketing executive at the Business-to-Business media firm Advanstar Communications. Marc also held roles in finance at Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp. He brings to Riot his marketing, leadership, and "l337" gaming skills. Since founding Riot however, Marc has only had time to game vicariously through the design team while watching them do "research" from his lonely office in the Riot Tower.

Marc temporarily enters Beast Mode, which causes all employees to fervently increase productivity by 300% for the next two hours.

Scott Gelb, a stalwart Missourian, brings his years of experience in software architecture to Riot Games. Formerly of Perpetual Entertainment, Scott spearheaded the online gaming platform for both Gods and Heroes and Star Trek Online. He is as core as core gamers get, holding a profound place in his heart for MMORPGS (like WoW, EQ1/2, UO) and FPS's like TF2, CSS, Q3. Outside of Riot, Scott enjoys bicep curls, visiting petting zoos, consuming delicious delicacies and taunting larger mammals like our Senior Producer Steve Snow.

Slicing tension with his blade of comedy, "The Gelb" has been known to reduce aggro by 200%, utilizing his goofy smile and self-deprecating humor.

Prior to joining Riot, Tom worked at Blizzard as a Designer on World of Warcraft, designing much of the core talent system and polishing the new player experience. He also worked on the Warcraft III The Frozen Throne, heading up play balance, and working on a variety of other systems. Tom holds a MBA from Kellogg and a BS in Computer Science from MIT. We thought this meant heíd know a bunch about business and about technology, but we later found it just means he has good alcohol tolerance, and a tendency to make painfully geeky remarks. In his spare time, Tom plays too many games, and reads sci-fi while working up a sweat on the treadmill. Once upon a time, he was the winner of the Blizzard Brood War Beta invitational, and #1 on the SC & BW ladders several times.

Tom briefly meditates and accesses the para-plane of brewing. Focusing this energy, he manifests into existence 2d6 random beers, often including Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Franziskaner Hefeweizen, Young's Chocolate Stout and Spaten Optimator.

Chris came to Riot Games after most recently working at Activision as a Global Brand Manager on Guitar Hero Metallica. Spending his early days on the development side at Monster Games on the NASCAR Heat and Test Drive franchises, Chris learned the Way of Business at the Kellogg School of Management before interning at Electronic Arts and spending a few years at Activision launching several titles. Chris also enjoys long walks on the beaches of Icecrown.

Chris gathers ads, partnerships, boxed product and download links launching them all together onto the gaming public resulting in a stun.

Steve "Pendragon" Mescon is the creator of the DotA-Allstars.com community website, which has empowered DotA players to speak their minds for over four years. Steve has extensive experience in customer service as well as a profound passion for building deep relationships with the communities he's involved with. An admitted workaholic, Mr. Pendragon intends to work around the clock to make sure any Riot created game has a kickass community.

Steve creates a special concoction, 2 parts Red Bull, 2 parts Monster energy drink, and just a dash of Dave's Ultimate Insanity Sauce. Upon drinking this potent mix, Steve grows wings and flies to every customer individually, solving problems one after another.