Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games and a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, where previous roles included Assistant Professor of Entertainment Technology. Schell has served as Design Director at Sim Ops Studios, Inc. and has held the position of Creative Director at Disney, including for the VR Studio and at Walt Disney Imagineering. Education includes a Master of Science in Computer Networking and Virtual Reality from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.