Doctors ray muzyka and greg zeschuk biography
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Greg Zeschuk
General manager at BioWare Austin
Gregory ZeschukCM (born 1969)[4] is a Canadian businessman who was a VP at Electronic Arts and General Manager at BioWare Austin until 2012. He co-founded video game developer BioWare in Edmonton in 1995 with Ray Muzyka and Augustine Yip, after all three earned their medical degrees from the University of Alberta.[5] Zeschuk announced his retirement from BioWare on September 18, 2012.[6] He is currently involved in a number of projects related to the craft-beer industry, including the production of a web-based interview show known as "The Beer Diaries."[7] Greg is also the chairman of the board of the smart playground technology startup, Biba Ventures based in Vancouver, BC.
In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time alongside Ray Muzyka.[8]
Early life
[edit]Zeschuk was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1] Growing up, Zeschuk played many role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons, saying he felt they were "always the strongest experience." During his childhood, he spent one summer making games on his Apple II computer with a group of his friends.[5]
Founding of BioWare
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Greg was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and after a relatively uneventful childhood he attended the University of Alberta where he earned a medical degree. Just prior to medical school Greg met Ray Muzyka, his future colleague in medicine, but more importantly, also his future business partner at BioWare.
After graduating from medical school at the University of Alberta in 1992 Greg spent a year in Akron, Ohio as a medical intern before returning to Edmonton to finish his Family Medicine training in 1994. It was shortly after this that Greg formally teamed up with Ray and a third partner, a medical doctor named Augustine Yip, to start BioWare Corp. While BioWare Corp officially incorporated in February 1995, in the early 90’s, prior to even leaving medical school Greg, Ray and Aug made some medical education software that was used at the university and laid the foundation for their future work on video games.
BioWare started in Greg’s basement in Edmonton, which had notoriously low ceilings; these weren’t a problem for Greg as his hair would brush the ceiling when standing at full height, but for the tall Muzyka the low clearance was a menace, and more than once Ray massaged his skull inadvertently. Wisely, the du
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