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Dr. Ray Muzyka to Chair new entrepreneur mentorship program at the University of Alberta

ThresholdImpact founder Dr. Ray Muzyka will Chair a new entrepreneurial mentorship program at the University of Alberta, the Venture Mentoring Service. The program was announced today by the University of Alberta, second largest university in Canada: http://news.ualberta.ca/newsarticles/2013/november/gaming-guru-helps-students-level-up More information about the Venture Mentoring Service is available on the VMS page, here: http://alumni.ualberta.ca/volunteer/venture-mentoring-service

Dr. Ray Muzyka to deliver opening keynote at MIGS 2013

ThresholdImpact Founder and CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka will be the opening keynote speaker at MIGS 2013, November 11-12 in Montreal, speaking on Best Practices in Leadership and Communication. Dr. Muzyka will present observations around sustainable entrepreneurship, leadership and communication best practices, using lessons from his past work at BioWare and Electronic Arts, and more recently, […]

Dr. Ray Muzyka to keynote 2013 U of A Student Leadership Conference

Dr. Ray Muzyka, founder of ThresholdImpact, is keynoting the 2013 University of Alberta Student Leadership Conference. Dr. Muzyka will speak to U of A students the evening of Sept 20th at the Telus Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; his talk is focused on Communication and Leadership. More information on the student leadership conference is available […]

Dr. Ray Muzyka to speak at Accelerate Alberta tech/venture conference

Threshold Impact founder Ray Muzyka will be speaking at the Accelerate Alberta technology/venture conference at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta on July 11th. He will join the Rapid Fire Founders Stories panel, in which the panelists will share their “war stories” with the audience of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. A new session for AccelerateAB, […]

Threshold Impact founder receives GDC Lifetime Achievement Award

Co-founders of the award-winning BioWare videogame studio, Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk, received Lifetime Achievement Awards March 27th for their contributions to the art and science of videogames and interactive entertainment at the 13th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCAs). The award was presented at Moscone Center in San Francisco by former Elevation […]

NPO Zero: empowering non-profits by helping them operate at a premium level

Threshold Impact founder Dr. Ray Muzyka is investing in NPO Zero, a social enterprise focused on helping non-profits while also generating a profit. NPO Zero’s goal is to enable the not for profit sector to reduce their administrative expenses while increasing their revenues, and empowering them to operate at a premium level. NPO Zero is […]

SINFO XX keynote: “BioWare’s first two decades: evolution of vision, products, business”

Threshold Impact founder and BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka delivered a keynote speech February 25th at the 20th SINFO conference, at the prestigious Instituto Superior Técnico university in Portugal. The talk’s title was “BioWare’s first two decades: the evolution of vision, products, and business”. The speech and Q&A can be viewed here, on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjfrbmCDlk […]

Dr. Ray Muzyka partnering with iNovia Capital as Venture Advisor

Threshold Impact Founder and CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka has become an active participant in the iNovia Capital venture capital network of entrepreneurial advisors. Already a co-investor with iNovia, Muzyka recently became an investor in iNovia Fund III. As an iNovia Venture Advisor, he will have the opportunity to co-invest and get to know more iNovia […]

Threshold Impact Founder to speak at the Canadian Financing Forum

Dr. Ray Muzyka will be speaking on the “Exits, Exits, Exits: Selling to Strategics” panel at the Canadian Financing Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 21st, 2013. Dr. Muzyka will be speaking to his experiences with private equity investment at BioWare from Elevation Partners in 2005 and the subsequent successful exit to Electronic Arts in 2008, and […]