Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is a resident of Gilbert, Arizona.

Shane Lacy Hensley is from Clintwood, Virginia, and began playing Dungeons & Dragons after seeing comic-strip ads featured in comic books in the 1980s.

[1]: 325  Hensley later sent West End Games an unsolicited Torg adventure that he authored, which the company published soon after as The Temple of Rec Stalek (1992).

[1]: 326–327  Cybergames used their income from acquisitions to buy other companies - causing harm to the cashflow of their individual companies and ruining their production schedules – and Hensley announced on January 12, 2001 that the acquisition of Pinnacle had been "undone" after considerable damage left Pinnacle with only a handful of employees.

[citation needed] Hensley briefly returned to Cryptic in 2010 as Executive Producer on Neverwinter, then on to Petroglyph Games to work on the End of Nations MMORTS (published by Trion Worlds).