Executive Management Team
Douglas Whatley
Founder and CEO
As Founder and CEO of BreakAway, Doug has over 20 years of successful game development and management experience in the interactive entertainment industry. He began his career at America Online where he was instrumental in helping to create the AOL client/server infrastructure. After that, he held senior-level management positions at MicroProse, ABC Sports, and Disney where he worked on critically acclaimed software titles such as Darklands, Gunship 2000, Sid Meier's Civilization, and ABC's Monday Night Football.
Since founding BreakAway, Doug has positioned the company as a global leader in developing and applying game technology to solve real world problems in the military, healthcare, homeland security and corporate arenas.
Doug was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 2004 and was recognized as a Top 10 Cutting Edge Designer by Business Week in 2006. In recognition for their sustained growth, BreakAway has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for three consecutive years.
Advances in the state of the art have caused us to closely examine not just the games themselves but the technology behind the game…we are on the threshold of a breakthrough that has the potential to have a major impact on how we train.
: RADM Fred Lewis, USN (Ret) President , National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA).
What if You Could...
Develop a virtual learning platform of the human body and all its systems for a radical new approach to medical training?