Duleepa Wijayawardhana, or “Dups” as he is better known, brings together all the wonderful ideas, expertise and personalities which make up Empire Avenue Inc. into a cohesive whole. Dups has been working with Internet-related stuff since 1993 and has experienced the joy and frustrations of leading and developing large-scale databases and applications accessed by millions of users, including game-related properties at BioWare Corp. (now a division of Electronic Arts). Most recently, Dups was the Community Relations Manager in North America for Sun Microsystems/MySQL.