Alex Garden was the CEO

Chief executive officer

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 of Vancouver

Vancouver

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-based game developer Relic Entertainment

Relic Entertainment

Relic Entertainment is a Canadian game development company that specializes in 3D real-time strategy games and has released a number of unique PC games. Relic specializes in creative, visually appealing, and combat intense RTS games.-History:...

, which he co-founded with Luke Moloney in 1997. In February 2005, he founded the company iVALET Systems Inc. to develop an advanced parking

Parking

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 system. On November 3, 2006, Alex Garden joined Nexon to run Nexon's North American

North American

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 game development studio, Nexon Publishing North America. In October, 2009, Alex Garden joined Microsoft

Microsoft

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to work in their games division, Microsoft Game Studios.