David Perry

David Perry

CEO - CARRO
Perry is the CEO & Co-Founder of Carro. It's a new kind of commerce enablement platform that connects all surfaces where eCommerce can happen to form effortless partnerships—connecting brand to brand, to influencers, to media conglomerates, giant aggregators, and even selling on live television. Connecting brands (wiring them together) unlocks incredible new capabilities like selling each other’s inventories, virtual wholesale, network-based checkout upselling, bundles, etc. Successful Shopify Brands, please join our network here: https://www.getcarro.com/ Before Carro, Sony PlayStation acquired Perry's 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 was the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim Entertainment, helping 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 Warner's Matrix movies. After 39 years in the business, Perry remains one of the best-known video game industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and the Develop - Development Legend award. Perry was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Queen's University, Belfast, and an Honorary Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest-serving members of the Game Developer's Conference Board. A common keynote speaker, with past speaking engagements including: TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford University, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD Conference, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect and many others.