Luc Barthelet

Luc Barthelet (born 1962) is the CTO of Unity Technologies. Formerly he was CTO and President of Technology at Electronic Arts. He joined Unity Technologies in December 2018.

Between 1998 and May 2008 he worked for Electronic Arts. In the gaming community he engages with players on blogs and in discussion boards. In his previous post of Group Studio Head, Electronic Arts, he was also instrumental in the development of persistent state worlds, a responsibility that included Majestic, Motor City Online, Earth and Beyond, Ultima Online and The Sims Online. Before ascending to that position, Barthelet was general manager of Maxis where he led product development for titles such as The Sims, The Sims 2, SimCity 4 and SimCity 3000.

He was executive director at Wolfram Alpha (December 2010 – May 2014). Prior to this he was CEO of TirNua, Inc, a games company, which developed an eponymous MMO virtual world. TirNua was acquired by RockYou! in December 2010.

Between 2014 and 2018, he circumnavigated on his catamaran with his wife Sarah Flannery and his children.