Toby Ragaini
Director of Game Development, Big Fish Games

Toby Ragaini is one of the industry’s most experienced massively multiplayer online game designers. He has been working exclusively on MMO games for over 13 years, having led the design efforts on Asheron’s Call and The Matrix Online.

In addition to his work on subscription based titles, with Thinglefin and Big Fish Games, Toby has entered the emerging market of micro-transactions and seeks to innovate in bringing online games to an increasingly casual game audience.

Prior to his entry into the computer game industry, Toby was a member of a NIMH research team searching for genes that conferred a predisposition to a mental illness called bipolar disorder. Toby graduated from WPI with distinction in 1995, earning a BS in biotechnology.

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