Brendan Iribe (born August 12, 1979) is an American
game programmer and the co-founder of
Oculus VR, Inc.. Iribe started his career as a game programmer and worked on the user interface of Civilization IV. He then was the cofounder and CEO of
Scaleform, the
user interface technology provider for PC games. After Scaleform was sold to
Autodesk he worked as product team lead at
Gaikai. In 2012 he got together with
Palmer Luckey to start a kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift VR Headset, which was at the time the most successful ever on the platform, raking in over 2.4 Million Dollars. Iribe took the position of CEO at the newly founded
Oculus VR.