Richard Boyd

Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs

Summary of Experience

As one of the creators of the Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs, Richard leads a group of innovative engineers and designers across all mission areas for Lockheed Martin to harness cutting edge computer gaming and virtual world technologies to improve human performance through more effective training and collaboration. Richard joined Lockheed Martin in 2007 with the acquisition of a computer game technology firm called 3Dsolve where he was founder and CEO.

Prior to that, Richard was General Manager and VP of Sales for Virtus Corporation, where he worked for nearly a decade and where he served on the management team that created several pioneering computer gaming companies including Red Storm Entertainment, with author Tom Clancy; and Timeline Computer Entertainment, with author Michael Crichton.

In addition to these duties over the years, Boyd has become a highly sought-after industry speaker, logging numerous appearances at key industry conferences such as Comdex, MacWorld, Windows World-London, NCGA, Web3D, I/ITSEC, ITEC and the Meckler Virtual Reality conferences. He also spearheaded the effort to use 3D visualization technologies to create virtual environments for movies such as Warner Brothers' feature Fearless, a John Hay film titled The Steal, as well as during the pre-production phase of Brian dePalma's blockbuster Mission: Impossible.

With computer gaming pioneer David Smith, Boyd co-wrote an industry-leading book on VRML technologies, called The Virtus VRML Toolkit, that was widely distributed and translated into three foreign languages in 1995. Boyd is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.