Steve Mayer was founder, CTO and Chairman of Digital F/X, a leading edge supplier of digital audio and video authoring workstations for the television, film and multimedia industries. Prior to Digital F/X he was one of the founders of Atari, the video games and computer company where he served as chief architect for Atari coin-operated games and home programmable game systems. After the acquisition by Warner Communications Steve served as Executive VP for Strategic Planning.

In recent years Steve has served as an advisor for Intel and Nintendo, among others and as a visiting lecturer and adjunct professor at NYU, Harvard, MIT, UCLA and Columbia University. He also serves on various Boards including Activision, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard, and the San Francisco Zoo. In addition to his contributions as a senior technical lead and general manager he has lectured extensively in the design of Use Interface and the appropriate use of technology.

Steve holds over 18 patents in the computer and multimedia area and has won an Emmy for technical achievement in the video industry.