Advisory Board

A 20-year game industry veteran, Jeff Braun co-founded Maxis with Will Wright in 1987. Under Jeff's leadership as Chairman and CEO, Maxis became world famous for its Sim branded video games. Maxis went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 1995 before selling to Electronic Arts in 1997. Jeff remained with Electronic Arts as SVP North American Studios until 2000. Since then, Jeff has been a mentor and partner for a number of interactive media startups, while raising two creative, intelligent and beautiful daughters with his wife.

Currently, Jeff is busy developing a set of immersive online 3D tools for creating collaborative game-based learning environments for K-12 students. As Jeff discovered with the success of SimCity and The Sims, engaging games, simulations and virtual worlds can provide children with a richer and more enjoyable educational experience.