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Ray Muzyka co-founded BioWare in the early 1990s after completing his MD. He practiced full-time rural locum tenens Emergency/Family Med for two years, then medicine transitioned to part-time rural locums for the next decade as his second career for the next two decades focused on his role as BioWare\u2019s CEO.\n\nBioWare was the fastest growing company in Alberta in 2002 and has won many industry awards for quality/innovation, and multiple years on Canada\u2019s Top 100 Employers Awards.\n\nBioWare received its first external (private equity) funding from Elevation Partners in 2005. After acquisition by Electronic Arts in 2007, in 2009 Muzyka was promoted to SVP/Group GM of EA\u2019s BioWare Label which by 2012 had eight studios, ~$500MM USD annual revenues, and ~2000 FT+PT staff worldwide.\n\nRay retired after 20 years in videogames in late 2012, with his third career chapter at ThresholdImpact (www.thresholdimpact.com) mentoring entrepreneurs in medical innovations and social enterprise technology. He is an active angel impact investor (https://angel.co/ray-muzyka) across North America.\n\nDr. Muzyka obtained his BMedSc from UAlberta in 1990, his MD from the U of A in 1992 and CCFP in 1994, and his MBA from the Ivey School of Business (UWO) in 2001.\n\nHe is a member of YPO, A100, Founding Chair of UAlberta Venture Mentoring Service, Venture Advisor and Investment Committee Member at iNovia, Advisory Board Member at Voyager Capital, Public Member on the U of A Board of Governors, is a mentor Fellow at CDL West, Rockies and Toronto, is a CDL-Global Founding Partner, and serves on multiple private company boards.\n\nHe was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2018, AIAS\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2011, Alberta\u2019s Business Hall of Fame in 2018, received GDC\u2019s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canada\u2019s Top 40 under 40, E&Y\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year (Prairies), U of A\u2019s 2015 Alumni Innovation Award, MacEwan\u2019s 2017 Allard Chair in Business, among other awards.