Perry is well-known from the video game industry, today he is the CEO of a new kind of SaaS e-commerce platform that over 34,000 Shopify brands are already using. GetCarro.com manages social media influencers that love your brand, while also handling the partnerships with other brands that wish to collaborate with your brand. How does it work? If an online bike store needs helmets, we can add them from their favorite Shopify brand in one click. (No need to pay for inventory, or take up warehouse space anymore.) Before that, Sony PlayStation acquired his last company Gaikai to establish leadership in the future of streaming video games from the cloud. This service is called PlayStation Now. Before that, Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first companies to introduce "free-to-play" gaming to the western markets, Disney acquired Acclaim. Before that, Perry founded the game development company Shiny Entertainment based in Laguna Beach, CA. Shiny was first acquired by Interplay to capture the rights to Earthworm Jim, then again by Atari, to obtain the rights to the games based on the Matrix movies. After 38 years in the business, Perry remains one of the best-known video game industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and the Development Legend award. Perry sits on the board of Intellivision Entertainment (building a new kid of family entertainment device for parents, kids & grandparents to play together), and on the board at Centercode Inc. (the largest enterprise testing company in the world, used by just about every major brand.) Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast, and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest-serving members of the Game Developer`s Conference Board. He has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect and many others.
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