Joe Pantuso
CEO & Co-Founder

Joe Pantuso began his startup career at PKWare (PKZip). He formed his first company Renegade Graphics in 1992 where he published the first Windows-based commercially successful video game CAD software (DoomED) and published his first book on the subject.

Joe next negotiated a joint venture between Renegade Graphics and Sembawang Media (a division of SembCorp), to create Games Online, Singapore's first established video game company.  As the leader of Games Online, he envisioned some of the earliest Internet multi-player games.  He also authored two more books on the subject of the Internet and the growing online gaming phenomenon.

Joe then returned to the United States to found NeoWorx with a former PKWare colleague.  Serving as Vice President and CTO of NeoWorx, he oversaw the creation of multiple innovative products, including the graphical NeoTrace trace-route tool, NeoLite executable compression technology, and the NeoWatch personal firewall.

In 2001, Joe and his partner sold their company to McAfee, best known for their anti-virus software.  After the acquisition, he was the only NeoWorx officer to take a position with McAfee as he led the team as the NeoWatch firewall product became the next-generation McAfee Personal Firewall product you can buy today.

Joe left McAfee in 2004 to focus full-time on building TrayGames.

Paul Naylor
CTO & Co-Founder

Paul Naylor changed career paths from banking developer to game development when he realized that there were people willing to pay him to make games for a living. Paul joined Games Online, an online games startup created by Joe Pantuso in Singapore as a developer .

Paul then moved to San Francisco and joined the game development studio at at Bröderbund. Paul’s first published game was “Warbreeds”, in which he was responsible for the multi-player parts of the game such as communications and game matching. Other projects at Bröderbund included Technical Lead on “Panzer General 3D: Assault”.

Paul took a short detour from games at Santa Clara dotcom startup Boldfish. In a departure from his normal technology development role, he took the position of Business Development Technical Consultant. He worked with business partners like Siebel, SAS, BroadVision, and Terradata. He also realized that he missed the Games Industry and community.

He Returned to the industry with small startup in nearby San Mateo, Cinemaware, back in the familiar role of Senior Software Engineer for the PlayStation2 game: “Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown”.

Paul moved back to his native New Zealand in April of 2003 to focus full-time on building TrayGames.

Perry Marchant
VP of Engineering

Perry joined Symantec in 1995 where he was part of a team that delivered consumer communications products including pcAnywhere and pcTelecommute. He helped develop key technologies for each of these product lines.

In 1999 he moved to Dayton and joined Cap Gemini (now Sogeti, LLC). He developed custom Windows based enterprise solutions for various clients including Reynolds & Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University (Applied Physics Lab), Procter & Gamble, and the Society for Human Resource Management.

In 2003 he became a key member of the NeoWatch/McAfee Personal Firewall team, shortly after the group had been acquired by McAfee Corporation.

Perry joined TrayGames in early 2005.