Garriott (born December 7, 1956) is an American video game industry figure and entrepreneur.
He co-founded Origin Systems and Destination Games with his brother, Richard Garriott, and was the CEO of NCsoft-North America until 2008.
He is the second-eldest son of NASA astronaut Owen K.
Garriott.Garriott was graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983 with a Master of Science in Management and also earned degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and a master's degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University.In 1983 he co-founded computer game developer Origin Systems with his younger brother Richard "Lord British" Garriott.
He was a vice president and later an executive vice president at Electronic Arts (EA) after the company acquired Origin in 1992.
Garriott left EA in 1995 and co-founded Destination Games in 2000.
Destination was bought by NCsoft in 2001 and he became president and CEO of NCsoft-North America.