eGenesis

From the website:

eGenesis is an LLC incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania. eGenesis was founded in 1999 with the mission of creating a new genre of online games.

Andrew Tepper, President
Andrew Tepper is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University. Before starting work at eGenesis in 1998, he ran a successful business developing software for universities.

Joshua Yelon, Lead Developer
Joshua Yelon has his Ph.D. in distributed computing from the University of Illinois. Before he wrote the eGenesis engine, he did work in object-oriented parallel languages and parallel simulations.