Stevie "Killcreek" Case
| Stevie Case | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Stevana Case September 7, 1976 |
| Other names | KillCreek |
| Alma mater | University of Kansas |
| Occupation | Vice President, Revenue |
| Employer | Layer |
| Home town | Olathe, Kansas |
| KillCreek | |
|---|---|
| Stevie Case | |
| Status | Retired |
| Hometown | Olathe |
| Nationality | American |
| League | Cyberathlete Professional League |
| Games | Quake |
Stevana "Stevie" Case (born September 7, 1976) is an American game designer and eSports player. She is known as one of the first well-known female gamers. Case has had several roles in the industry, from the first female professional gamer at the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) to level designer to vice president of development and sales.
She adopted the nickname KillCreek as a gaming handle after the band of the same name from Lawrence, Kansas. Case grew up in Olathe, Kansas and later attended University of Kansas.
After leaving Monkeystone Games, Case led a product development team for Warner Bros. Online's mobile group. After leaving Warner Bros., she was employed at Tira Wireless in sales and business development. Afterwards, she held a position with Spleak Media Network, where she was a director of product management.
In September 2008, she was vice president of business development and sales for fatfoogoo, an online commerce company. Case also served as Director of Business Development at Live Gamer, and Vice President, Sales with PlaySpan (acquired by Visa in 2011).
On March 1, 2010, NewWorld (the former parent company of the CPL) announced that it had signed a two-year agreement with Stevie Case for the production of a new podcast show called Stevie FTW. The last podcast was uploaded on March 11, 2011, and the last Twitter/Facebook update was on the same date.
Case is now the Vice President of Revenue at San Francisco-based startup Layer, developer of an open communications layer for the Internet.
Case dated Quake player Tom "Entropy" Kimzey, who was also a University of Kansas student and a member of KU based team Impulse 9.
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