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Jiovanie Velazquez - Creative Director

Brendan Jackson - Senior Programmer

Bill Kydd - Senior Programmer

Chris Ledwith - Senior Programmer

Christopher Stockman

Studio Director

Chris had his first taste of creating games at the impressionable young age of 14 working at the largest 3rd party developer, Park Place Productions. It was during his experiences there that Chris discovered his passion for the industry. After the great 16-bit crash of '95 Chris decided to hang up his controller and pack away his SNES to pursue other interests outside of games. But his time away from making games was short lived as upon completing a stint in the USAF Chris re-entered the industry to work as a QA Lead at Salt Lake City based Singletrac Studios. Shortly after shipping their PS1 racing title Streak, Chris was promoted into Design and worked on an unreleased action/adventure title for the original Playstation. From there he went out to Los Angeles to work as a Level Designer for Novalogic and shipped two PC titles; Armored Fist 3 and the well received Tachyon: The Fringe.

After receiving a call from an old friend, Chris packed up his gear and moved out to Dallas, TX to work for successful independent developer Ritual Entertainment. Stepping into a leadership role at Ritual Chris served as Lead Designer for Gathering of Developer's Blair Witch: The Elly Kedward Tale and Activision's Star Trek Elite Force 2, a sequel to the highly acclaimed first-person shooter, Elite Force. Seeing the decline of traditional PC game sales Chris decided it was in his best interest to focus his efforts on console development.

Chris joined THQ's Champaign, IL based studio, Volition, as a designer working on The Punisher for Marvel. Less than three months later Chris was promoted to Product Design Director and led a team of 7 designers for their first next-gen, open-world title. Released in August '06, Saints Row for the Xbox 360 was met with critical and commercial success receiving numerous nominations for Action/Adventure Game of the Year and has gone on to sell over 1.5 million copies worldwide.

After the success of Saints Row Chris decided it was time to take the next step. Partnering with two of Volition's most experienced and talented members, Sandeep Shekar and Jiovanie Velazquez, they formed Blazing Lizard with the desire to create top-tier, high quality games.