Career
Previously he was the Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard Entertainment, and prior to that the lead designer of World of Warcraft. In 2006, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rob Pardo has been credited on the following games:
Lead Designer
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
World of Warcraft
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
StarCraft: Brood War
Designer
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
Diablo II
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
StarCraft
Diablo III
Producer
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Tempest X3
Whiplash
Executive producer
Diablo III
Pardo appears in animated form in the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft, which deals with World of Warcraft.
Pardo played a Wood Elf Warrior named Ariel.
Tigole would go on to replace him as guild leader and was eventually offered a position as designer alongside Pardo.