Evan Wells


Evan Wells is an American video game designer and programmer, and the current President of Naughty Dog. Wells' first video game was at Sega, where he worked on ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron, before moving to Crystal Dynamics in 1995 to work on Gex and . He was employed at Naughty Dog in 1998, working on several Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter titles before becoming co-president of the company alongside Stephen White in 2005; White was replaced the following year by Christophe Balestra, who retired in 2017. The two oversaw the release of the Uncharted series, and The Last of Us. Wells remains the sole president.

Career

Evan Wells graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a computer science degree. He worked at Sega in 1993, working on ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron as a lead tester, before working at Crystal Dynamics from 1994 to 1998, working on Gex as a programmer, and ' as lead designer. Wells then moved to Naughty Dog, where he worked on ', Crash Team Racing, ', Jak II, Jak 3 and '. Following the departure of founders Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin in 2004, Wells became co-president of Naughty Dog alongside Stephen White; White was replaced by Christophe Balestra after a year. Wells continued to work as co-president during the release of the Uncharted titles, as well as The Last of Us. Balestra retired from the company in April 2017; Wells remains the sole president. Neil Druckmann was promoted to Vice President in March 2018. Wells will executive produce a television adaptation of The Last of Us with HBO.

Works

Video games

Film and television