David Whatley (born 1966) is the former president and CEO of Simutronics Corporation, a multiplayer game company in St. Charles, Missouri.
He briefly attended the University of Missouri, St. Louis, in 1985, majoring in communications, but left early to found his own software company.
[3] A passionate gamer, in 1987, at the age of 20, he co-founded Simutronics with Tom and Susan Zelinski,[4] and ran the company from his bedroom in his parents' home.
Simutronics games were the #1 third-party content on America Online, breaking industry records with 2 million user hours per month.
His second title, geoDefense Swarm went on to receive even more critical acclaim, and was named one of Time magazine's "Top 10 Video Games of 2009".