Bill Stealey
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John Wilbur Stealey Sr. is a game developer and publisher MicroProse with Sid Meier. He also founded and is the current[when?] CEO of iEntertainment Network.[citation needed]
Business career
Stealey took a job with General Instrument as their Director of Strategic Planning for their Systems and Service Division in Hunt Valley MD.[citation needed] There he met Sid Meier and co-founded his first game company, MicroProse Software. As CEO he grew the company to over $43 million in annual sales, taking MicroProse Software public in 1991, and selling in 1993 to a Kleiner Perkins company, Spectrum HoloByte. He resigned from the company following the merger.[1]
Stealey started the game software company Interactive Magic in 1995, took it public in 1998, and sold to a private equity firm in 1999. While running iEntertainment Network, Stealey mentioned in a 1996 interview that owned his own military training aircraft and flew it for recreation on a regular basis.[2]
Personal life
Stealey owned the Baltimore Spirit of the National Professional Soccer League from the franchise's inception in 1992 until he sold it to Edwin F. Hale, Sr. in 1998.[3][4]
Next Generation listed Stealey in their "75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995" for his roles as former head of MicroProse and then-current head of Interactive Magic.[5] Stealey left the company in 1999, but later returned as CEO in 2002.
References
- ^ "Interactive Magic". Next Generation. No. 21. Imagine Media. September 1996. pp. 109–110.
- ^ "An Interview with "Wild Bill" Stealey". Next Generation. No. 21. Imagine Media. September 1996. p. 112.
- ^ Ey, Craig S. "Can soccer succeed in Baltimore?" Baltimore Business Journal, Friday, August 8, 1997.
- ^ Sidekicks Opponents: Baltimore Blast (new-MISL) – kicksfans.com.
- ^ "75 Power Players". Next Generation (11). Imagine Media: 53. November 1995.