Our Team

He has composed and worked with a dazzling array of “A-list” clients like Microsoft Game Studios, SEGA, 343 Industries, Ubisoft, LucasArts, 2K Games, Sony Computer Entertainment, EA, Hewlitt-Packard, Harmonix, etc.. Recent AAA game credits include Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary, Infamous 2, Halo:Waypoint, 5th Cell’s Hybrid, Rocksmith, Bioshock 2, Iron Man 2, Lego Indiana Jones:The Adventure Continues, and many more. Paul and the Pyramind Studios team won the BEST AUDIO – OTHER Award at the 2011 GANG awards/GDC for work on the Halo Universe, and was awarded the G.A.N.G. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD at the 2006 GANG Awards/GDC for his wide-ranging work in interactive audio.

Paul is extremely passionate about audio and the advancement of the video game industry, and serves as the President and Board Member of the Game Audio Network Guild (GANG), the world’s largest organization of game audio professionals. He has worked closely with the officers of G.A.N.G. to originate the industry-first Program Partnership Initiative, and was the mastermind behind the Guild Scholarship Award for Game Audio, and the Guild’s worldwide advisor and director network.

Paul is an active speaker and presenter, and has conducted panels, lectures, and master classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Berklee College of Music, Musician’s Institute, SIGGRAPH, GDC, GameSoundCon, Pyramind Studios, AES Conference, New England Conservatory, Art Institute San Francisco, GRAMMY Soundtables, The Connecticut Film Festival, and at the Conservatory of Pernambuco in Brazil.

Paul has also studied music for twenty-five years, with a focus on jazz studies and classical/orchestral music. He has lead his ensembles at venues across the United States, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Brazil, and has performed and recorded with world-renowned jazz musicians including Clark Terry, George Russell, Eric Marienthal, Bob Moses, Jimmy Giuffre, Gene Bertoncini, Mick Goodrick, John Abercrombie, Tim Miller, Bevan Manson, John McNeil, and Rick DiMuzio.

Paul holds a BM and MM with summa/highest distinction from the world-renowned New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He is a member of the International Game Developers Association, The Music Educators National Conference, The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, BMI, The Recording Academy P&E Wing Advisory Council, and the Game Audio Network Guild. Paul is proud to endorse Presonus and WaveArts product lines.

In his twenty plus years of experience, Greg has developed an impressive list of high profile clients and recording artists including his own recent work mixing and mastering the in-game music and double CD soundtrack release for Microsoft Studios, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.

In 2003, Greg expanded Pyramind Studios to create a world-class music production training center. For this he was awarded the “Established Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Renaissance School of Entrepreneurship and received certificates of recognition and merit from State Assemblyman Mark Leno, San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros and California State Senator Carole Migden.

Greg is also a published author and experienced moderator and panelist at numerous industry events including: The SF MusicTech Summit, The Flux Summit, GRAMMY Career Day and The California Music Summit. His vision for Pyramind has included the production of numerous significant events all hosted at Pyramind’s facilities including: Game Sound Con, TestPress, The Flux Summit, The Annual GANG Awards after party, and a number of video game post mortems including Uncharted 2 and God of War III.

In 2010 Greg worked with Harmonix and MTV Games (the maker and then publisher of the video game, Rock Band) to create a nationwide touring master class (sponsored by The Recording Academy, T-Mobile, Fender & Shure) to train recording artists and labels in the process of publishing their music into the Rock Band Network.

Greg graduated with honors from SFSU with an inter-disciplinary degree in Music, Business, and Broadcasting. He is a twenty-year voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammys) where he has served as Trustee and a member of The Board Of Governors and continues to serve on the Producers & Engineers Wing national advisory council. He is also a member of The Game Audio Network Guild and a BMI writer and publisher.

After signing his band to an indy record deal, his cross-country tour brought him to SF where the drummer exploded – how typical.

Matt quickly found himself in high demand in the studio scene as a rare experienced Pro Tools user and became an award-winning Regional Technical Director for Guitar Center, and the Pro Tools Support Lead for the Cutting Edge Audio Group where he served as studio designer, installer and trainer for the likes of Joe Satriani, Metallica, Benny Reitveld (Santana and the SF Jazz Fest) as well as hundreds of private studios including Wally World (Walter A., N’Sync, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion). A crowning achievement during this period was to install, troubleshoot, deliver and support 50 Pro Tools workstations for the legendary Skywalker Sound during production of Star Wars Episode 1.

In January 2000, he and Greg Gordon began working together exclusively at Pyramind where they began running the hybrid Production/ Training businesses successfully. Matt has served the company as Chief Engineer, Senior Producer/ Composer, Chief Technical Officer, Vice-President and now Chief Academic Officer. He has mixed/mastered a hundred or so records (including his own released in 2002) as well as publishing several magazine articles. Matt has also written two texts on Pro Tools (Pro Tools Overdrive V 6.9 and V7 for Thomson Press).

He also engineered the sessions for the orchestral recordings for Iron Man 2 the video game. Steve’s expert skills in the studio also include his production and mixing of the newest Bill Ortiz (Trumpet Player for The Santana Band) album as well as recording the dialog sessions and mixing the animated series for Halo “The Return” for Waypoint on XBox live.

Before becoming a full time staff member at Pyramind, Steve was the co-founder of Digital Art & Music: a recording studio specializing in hip-hop/rap and alternative rock music. A seasoned producer and keyboardist, Steve has worked on numerous albums and loves adding to that number. Steve has also written and produced music for live theater, film and corporate video.

Steve also co-authored the highly respected “Pro Tools 7 Session Secrets: Professional Recipes for High-Octane Results” for Wiley publishing, a book that brought numerous insider techniques to light for anyone using Pro Tools. Steve recently added his insight as a writer and designer to the upcoming Pyramind / Alfred publications “The Pyramind Training Series”.

Before joining the team at Pyramind Studios, Michael worked extensively in the theater arts on the East Coast as a sound designer as well as acting and stage management. His love for sound and passion for music drew him to San Francisco to train at Pyramind. As a stand out student Michael was hand picked by Pyramind’s CEO, Greg Gordon, to work as studio manager. This led to being personally trained by Pyramind’s COO and Audio Director, Paul Lipson, to become Pyramind Studios’ lead project manager.

Working with Paul Lipson and the Pyramind Studios team means there is very rarely a dull moment. But in the event that there is, you can likely find Michael, controller in hand, playing the latest video games, enjoying a fine craft beer or hopping in the car with his lovely wife, Lynda, to take in some of the breathtaking landscapes that Northern California has to offer.

Peter then decided to move into audio post production, and became a sound designer at Earwax Productions. There he worked on over three hundred national TV commercials including Sega, Foster Farms, Got Milk?, Disney and many others. He also did sound design for the IMAX films “Whales” and “Yellowstone”.

Not being satisfied by library sound effects, Peter started recording his own. His recordings have appeared in “The English Patient, “The Rainmaker”, The Sound Ideas library and at Skywalker Ranch’s in-house library.

Most recently, Peter worked at Antenna Audio/Discovery Network as a lead Sound Designer. He was the sound designer for audio tours of Alcatraz, The USS Midway, The Statue of Liberty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The Guggenheim (NY), and many others. He was awarded the NAI award for best audio tour twice for first place, once for second.

Peter feels uneasy referring to himself in the third person. He has decided to get over it.

A composer and electric bassist – Jeff won the 2005 International Contemporary Solo Bass Competition hosted by Bass Player Magazine and Victor Wooten – Jeff’s original Sound Design is heard daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and in video games: World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm and Diablo 3.

Jeff was trained in Rock Band video game authoring at the Harmonix corporate studio in Cambridge MA.

An early Pyramind student, Hideki has since graduated to become Pyramind’s IT Administrator and Assistant Technical Director. Deks works hard to maintain the technical infrastructure at both the 880 and 832 Folsom St. facilities, and the rigorous scheduling and technical requirements of a multi-room studio complex.

Dheeraj’s formal education as a financial management graduate from Hillsdale College, MI. and his work as a financial analyst at Price Waterhouse & Coopers helped pave the way for his placement in the business division of Pyramind. Dheeraj’s deep understanding of analytics, web development, budgeting, and the current climate of the rapidly changing music industry now helps guide the marketing and events produced at Pyramind.