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.