Henk Rogers - Founder

As Foundation principal and visionary philanthropist, Henk Rogers is committed to the missions of stewarding environmental responsibility through developing non-carbon clean energy sources, working towards an end to wars, and reaching Mars. He is also globally renowned as a true visionary of computer and video gaming. One of the Dutch-born, U.S.-educated entrepreneur and gaming icon's many companies, Blue Planet Software, holds the exclusive intellectual property rights to Tetris, the world's most popular electronic video game (with over 70 million units sold). Rogers revolutionized the entire industry when he brought the now legendary game to U.S. and world markets almost two decades ago. Among Rogers' most recent accomplishments are the launch of the casual game portal Tetris Online, the digital photo management developer Blue Lava Technologies and massively-multiplayer virtual world builder Avatar Reality. His companies also currently include Bullet-Proof Software, AnimaTek, Blue Lava Technologies and Blue Lava Wireless, one of the country's top mobile phone game publishers.

Previously, Rogers' groundbreaking work in the 1980s in Japan's then-fledgling computer game industry led to the development of that country's first-ever Role Playing Game (RPG), Black Onyx (published by Bullet-Proof Software) — he is known there as "the father of RPG." Henk's reach has also greatly influenced the hand-held game systems market via his facilitation of one of the industry's most fruitful partnerships, between Tetris and Nintendo's Game Boy (over 35 million units of the game have been sold through this marriage alone). Henk Rogers currently resides in Hawaii. Raised in Holland until age 11, he attended secondary school at NYC's famous specialized high school for mathematics, science and technology, Stuyvesant High School. He went on to study computer science at the University of Hawaii.