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List of Staff
This is the list of staff in alphabetical order and what they did as of April 3rd, 2013 according to Volition's website:

• Russell Aasland, Programmer • David Abzug, Senior Designer • Will Alberts, Programmer • Phil Alexander, Programmer • Damien Allen, Senior Designer • Mike Anaya, Senior Environmental Artist • John Anderson, Associate Artist • Dave Andsager, Senior Programmer • Eric Arnold, Senior Programmer • Brittni Ballard, Temp QA Tester • Dave Baranec, Senior Programmer • Glynis Barker, Project Manager • Devin Barkley, Helpdesk/Hardware Technician • Eric Barrios, Character Artist • Camden Bayer, Artist • Tony Bedard, Temp Writer • Nate Berg, Temp QA Tester • Rick Bernotas, Senior Programmer • David Bianchi, Designer • Jeffrey Bielawski, Associate Designer • Jason Blair, Temp Writer • Jim Boone, Producer • Matt Boynton, Senior Designer • Dominic Braun, Programmer • Eric Braun, Senior Programmer • Brandon Bray, Audio Designer • Jim Brennan, Senior Programmer • Benjamin Brenner, Sr. QA Tester • Jon Breuer, Programmer • Stewart Brown, Designer • John Brunkhart, Designer • Paul Burk, Systems Engineer • Eric Butt, Animator • Aaron Canary, Programmer • Jim Cannon, Custodian • James Cardoni, Temp QA Tester • Susan Cenci, Senior Artist • Marcus Cenci, Senior Artist • Dan Cermak, General Manager • Chelsea Chapman, Temp QA Tester • Jason Childress, Technical Artist • Anne Chilldon, Designer • Kenny Chinn, Associate Programmer III • Chris Claflin, Senior Environmental Artist • Jonathan Criner, Artist • Mitch Cronin, QA Lead • Jimmy Cross, Associate Designer • David Cubberly, Assistant Producer • Andy Cunningham, Senior Programmer • Matt Currey, Environmental Artist • Albert DeBacker, Programmer • Mike Debonis, Temp QA Tester • Darren Dienst, Senior Designer • Bryan Dillow, Senior Designer • Chad Dodson, Temp QA Tester • Greg Donovan, Senior Producer • Andrew Dour, Technical Artist • Victor Duarte, Environmental Artist • Chris Dubois, Senior QA Tester • Jameson Durall, Senior Designer • Andrew Eads, QA Manager • Christian Ebbecke, Senior Programmer • Brendon Ellis, Sr. QA Tester • Don Elmore, Manager, IT •  Byron Evora, Audio Designer • Jesse Farrell, Assistant Producer • Jason Fass, Sr. QA Tester • Joseph Ferraro, Production Intern • Dan Fike, Senior Programmer • Scott Fischer, Associate Programmer • Casey Fish, Service Desk Technician • Frank Fisher, Technical Artist • Mike Flavin, Senior Programmer

• Matt Flegel, Senior Artist • Chris Fortier, Character Artist • Rob Gable, Assistant Project Manager • Aaron Gallant, Temp Audio Designer • Larry Gates, Temp Audio Assistant • Matt Gawalek, Programmer • John Gnuechtel, Studio Artist Manager • Tyler Good, Technical Artist • Matt Green, Senior Designer • Ariel Gross, Studio Audio Director • Erica Haack, Senior HR Generalist/Recruiter • James Hague, Senior Designer • Jeff Hanna, Senior Technical Artist • Jeff Harris, Interface Artist • Peter Hartmann, Environmental Artist • Seth Hawk, Environmental Artist • Justin Heath, Programmer • Chris Helvig, Senior Programmer • Morgan Henry, Temp QA Tester • Randall Hess, Senior Animator • James Holland, Senior Concept Artist • Steve Holt, Senior Concept Artist • JT Hooker, Programmer • Stephen Horn, Programmer • Mike Hoyt, Temp QA Tester • Michael Hoyt, Temp QA Tester • Rose Hunt, Project Manager • Alex Ivanova, HR Administrator • Steve Jaros, Creative Director • Alex Jerez, Technical Artist • Ashley Jerome, Temp QA Tester • Brad Johnson, Senior Designer • Craig Johnson, Vehicle Artist • Bonnie Judy, Purchasing/Accounts Payable • Rahman Kariem, Custodian • Jeff Keely, Programmer • Jeremy Kendall, Effects Artist • Scott Kircher, Senior Programmer • Marc Kirkland, Environmental Artist • David Klein, Temp QA Tester • Christina Kniskern, Temp QA Tester • Sean Koske, Sr. Artist • Adam Kouzmanoff, Temp QA Tester • Jay Kreibich, Senior Programmer • Ret Kritzon, Environmental Artist • Adam Kyrouac, Temp QA Tester • Alan Lawrance, Principal Programmer • Nick Lee, Senior Programmer • Shawn Lindberg, Senior Programmer • Benny Lo, Cinematic Artist • Scot Loving, Senior Animator • Zach Lowery, Animator • Jordan Lynn, Player Experience Researcher • John Lytle, Technical Artist • Mandy MacGregor, Community Relations Associate/Receptionist • Matthew Madigan, Associate Manager, Finance • Ryan Mansfield, Temp QA Tester • Frank Marquart, Senior Artist • Jeffrey Massung, Principal Programmer • Clay Mathews, Animator • Ryan McCabe, Senior Designer • Brendan McElroy, Temp QA Tester • Jon Meilike, Interface Artist • Alex Mejia, Video Editor • Bryan Mentock, Cinematic Artist • Josh Miethe, Temp QA Tester • Lily Miller, Temp QA Tester • Justin Miller, Senior Character Artist • Laural Mitchem, Director of Studio Human Resources • Glen Moeller, Temp QA Tester • Jeremy Moncauskas, Temp QA Tester • Alvan Monje, Senior Designer • Eric Montano, Temp QA Tester

• Greg Moudy, Environmental Artist • Lorcan Murphy, Designer • Brian Mushika, Temp Technical Artist • Randy Nash, Designer • Chris Neihengen, Senior Programmer • Katherine (Marlin) Nelson, Associate Producer • Doug Nelson, Senior Designer • Nick Niebling, Senior Artist • Randy Oberlerchner, Senior Programmer • Anne Odom, Project Manager • Eric Osmundson, Helpdesk/Hardware Technician • Clint Ourso, Studio Production Manager • Johnny Owens, Associate Programmer • Nick Owens, Senior Environmental Artist • Jason Parks, Principal Technical Artist • David Payne, Weapon & Prop Artist • Tyler Penrod, Technical Artist • Scott Phillips, Senior Designer • Adam Pletcher, Senior Technical Artist • Zavian Porter, Associate Designer • Stephen Quirk, Senior Environmental Artist • Ev Religioso, Senior Cinematic Artist • Peter Resendiz, Temp QA Tester • Ando Tammik Roose, Senior Animator • Sean Rose, Programmer • Mike Rossi, Technical Artist • Erik Rounds, Programmer • Neil Ryan, Senior Programmer • Rob Rypka, Programmer • Roel Sanchez, Associate Audio Designer III • Nicholas Sans, QA Lead • Daniel Schorsch, Senior QA Tester • Kinzie Schwab, Programmer • Jason Scott, Studio Design Director • Rusty Sempsrott, Senior Designer • Anoop Shekar, Studio Designer Manager • George Signore, Temp QA Tester • Nick Silveira, Technical Artist • Kyle Vande Slunt, Audio Designer • Brittany Smith, Temp QA Tester • Shayne Smith, Vehicle Artist • Kelly Snapka, Principal Artist • George Sokol, Temp Artist • Ryan Spencer, Senior Programmer • Tom Straight, Temp QA Tester • Jason Strauman, Sr. QA Tester • Dan Sutton, Associate Producer • Will Tam, Senior Animator • Joe Taylor, Senior Programmer • James Taylor, Senior Vehicle Artist • Jeff Thompson, Studio Manager of Programmers • Stephen Tobias, Programmer • James Torbit, Producer • Marissa Torrison, Assoc. Project Manager • Jeff Touchstone, Designer • Marc Turner, Temp QA Tester • Nathan Turner, Senior Technical Artist • Matt Upholz, Environmental Artist • Mitri Vanichtheeranont, Senior Technical Artist • Isaac Vanier, Programmer • Jose Vazquez, Concept Artist • Jiovanie Velazquez, Temp Artist • Ismael Vicens, Associate Producer • Edward Vollenweider, Temp QA Tester • Iory Wang, Character Artist • Nate Ward, Senior Programmer • Eric Warman, Environmental Artist • Tim Wasson, Senior Environmental Artist • Joseph Wells, Sr. QA Tester • Lissette Wells, Project Manager • Lesley Wells-Lewis, Associate Project Manager • Jasen Whiteside, Senior Artist • Mike Wilson, Programmer

• Joseph Wolf, Senior QA Tester • Jeremiah Zanin, Senior Programmer • Elizabeth Zelle, Assistant Player Experience Researcher / QA •  Nicholas Zippmann, Senior Designer

THQ Bankruptcy and the sale of Volition
When THQ filed for bankruptcy, many companies showed interest in the assets of THQ, especially since THQ announced that they will attempt to keep the jobs of their employees by selling their various assets. General manger of Volition Inc., Dan Cermak said that Warner Bros., Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Koch Media, and an unnamed group from Chicago all completed site visits in the weeks preceding the sale of Volition. Eventually, Volition was acquired by Koch Media for 22.3 million dollars. None of the other companies that showed interest in Volition actually bid except for Ubisoft that bid 5.4 million dollars. Volition was the most expensive THQ asset that was sold during the auction as opposed to all the other assets that were acquired by other companies. It is believed to be worth that much due to the past success of a lot of the games that were made by the studios such as Saints Row: the Third. In early 2012, Saints Row: the Third sold around 4 million copies from its release date which was in mid November of 2011. THQ also claimed that the game's downloadable content packages were performing much better than anticipated.