Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an
American engineer and
entrepreneur who founded both
Atari, Inc. and the
Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has been inducted into the
Video Game Hall of Fame and the
Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the
BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of
Newsweeks "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the
video game industry. He is currently on the board of Anti-Aging Games, but his latest venture is an educational software company called Brainrush that is using video game technology in educational software, incorporating real brain science, in a way that Bushnell believes will fundamentally change education. Nolan, who is co-founder and chairman of Brainrush, believes that Brainrush will be his biggest success.