Fredrik Liliegren

Fredrik Liljegren (born 5 December 1969), also known as Fredrik Liliegren, is Director, System Software for Nvidia. Previosly he has worked as vice president graphics and portability Group of the Software company TransGaming and former CEO of Antic Entertainment, Red Jade and Digital Illusions. He is a co-founder of the Swedish games development studio Digital Illusions. Liljegren worked not as a programmer but as an entrepreneur on the business side of the company and was responsible for founding the demogroup The Silents.

Liljegren was born in Lund, Sweden, to parents Lars-Göran Liljegren and Lena Bramsbo. As a teenager in Växjö, as a junior high and high school student, he spent a lot of time creating graphics and demo games. He studied computer science at Växjö University, now known as Linnaeus University, in Sweden, but never graduated.

While studying at Linnaeus, in 1992 Liljegren and fellow demo scene developers Ulf Mandorff, Olof Gustafsson, Andreas Axelsson and Markus Nystrom, members of the former demogroup the Silents – for which Liljegren acted as a spokesperson – founded the computer game company DICE and developed pinball computer games for Amiga. The first games were Pinball Dreams – which they started developing in 1988 and sold in 1992 – and the Battlefield series.

Liljegren lives in London, Ontario, with his wife Tamara.