Even as a child, Brent's love of puzzles, games and immersive activities knew no bounds. He majored in Creative Writing at Stanford, and has been developing puzzle-based adventures since 1994. A formidable puzzler and relentless game-player, Brent oversees the challenges and story lines for Shinteki events. Martin was a founder of the web search engine Excite in 1994, and served as one of the core programmers and engineering managers until 1999. He writes the custom software for the handheld devices that Shinteki employs during events, and he continues to oversee the use of technology as the company expands its offerings. Linda has a background in Applied Earth Science and Zoo Keeping. Her love of nature and unusual scenery come to the fore in her location scouting for Shinteki events. In addition, Linda develops many activity-based challenges and oversees event organization. Reading Maley is an electrical engineer who presently works at a hardware startup designing audio and video circuits. A veritable jack-of-all-trades, he helps conceive and create challenges for SHinteki, specializing in large-scale and technical construction projects. David Andre is a PhD in Artificial Intelligence with an extensive background in stage and set design. In addition to serving as the main IT guy at Shinteki and dreaming up elaborate challenges for our events, David is a serial entrepreneur and is presently CTO of Cerebellum Capital. Jesse is an electromechanical engineer who spent several years running his own firm in San Francisco, and now works as Director of Engineering for iPod and iPhone Accessories at Apple. Jesse designs some of the technical challenges and oversees production quality at Shinteki.