Brian Ullrich, who joins Realtime Worlds from Electronic Arts, will report directly to RTW CEO David Jones and will take charge of development, ensuring that RTW titles are developed in the most efficient and productive manner whilst continuing to be cutting-edge and of extremely high quality.

Brian has 20 years experience in games, having held senior positions at Nintendo, Software Creations, DMA Design, VR-1, LithTech, Microsoft, and Electronic Arts.

Rob Rice joins RTW from NCsoft where he was Director of Network and Security Operations. Rob’s Operational responsibilities spanned the US and Europe supporting all of NCsoft’s data centres and development studios. As VP of Online Operations Rob is responsible for leading the Operations team supporting RTW’s data and game operations centres, billing and customer support.

Prior to Rob’s position at NCsoft he was at Broadwing Communications where he held multiple positions on the operations team ranging from senior technical roles to managing the Internet Network Operations Centre supporting all IP customers for Broadwing.

CEO and Creative Director David Jones said of the appointments “We’re delighted to have individuals of such high calibre come on board. Their wealth of experience will be invaluable in continuing the company’s success and of achieving the ambitious goals we have for the next few years.”