David Braben

David John Braben, OBE, is a British game developer, game designer, game programmer. He is the founder and CEO of Frontier Developments plc since January 1994.

Braben is best known for creating the Elite series by co-developing the original Elite in 1984, Frontier: Elite II, Frontier: First Encounters and Elite: Dangerous. He is also a co-founder of and works as a trustee for the Raspberry Pi Foundation which in 2012 launched a low-cost computer for education.

David Braben is married to Wendy Irvin-Braben and has two sons.