David Smith has more than 20 years' experience founding and running companies in the graphics and wireless software fields. Smith’s technologies have won multiple industry awards.



In 1998, Smith co-founded Neomar, a wireless technologies company that provided the browser for RIM's BlackBerry. In 1990, Smith founded Virtus to create real-time 3D based modeling and visualization applications for desktop computers.



Smith is well known for creating The Colony, the world's first interactive first-person 3D adventure game. With Tom Clancy, Smith also co-founded Red Storm Entertainment, a jointly-owned venture with Virtus. He was also CEO and co-founder of Timeline Computer Entertainment, a jointly-owned venture between author Michael Crichton and Virtus. Smith is a graduate of the University of Chicago.