Todd Hollenshead

{{short description|American video game businessman}}

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| name = Todd Hollenshead

| image = Todd Hollenshead at QuakeCon 2006 - 21 (cropped).jpg

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| occupation = CEO/President, id Software (1996–2013); Head of Publishing, Saber Interactive (current)

| spouse = Mihaela Plesa

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Todd Hollenshead is a computer game development executive. He was President and CEO of id Software while the company put out some of the gaming world’s most iconic video game franchises: Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, and Rage. In addition to his software work, he is also known in the gaming community for his long hair and his role as master of ceremonies at Quakecon, a LAN party and gaming convention in Dallas, Texas.

Hollenshead joined id Software in November 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.idsoftware.com/corporate/press13.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961220093223/http://www.idsoftware.com/corporate/press13.html|title=id Software Appoints Todd Hollenshead CEO|website=idsoftware.com|archivedate=December 20, 1996|date=November 6, 1996|accessdate=September 3, 2022}} He stayed on as President of id after it was acquired by ZeniMax in 2009; he left the company in 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/26/id-software-president-todd-hollenshead-leaves-company |title=id Software President Todd Hollenshead Leaves Company |last1=Dyer |first1=Mitch |date=June 26, 2013 |website=IGN |access-date=June 26, 2013}}

In February 2018, Hollenshead took a leadership role at Nerve Software.{{cite web |last1=Takashi |first1=Dean |title=Todd Hollenshead takes his id Software expertise to Nerve Software |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/27/former-id-software-chief-todd-hollenshead-joins-nerve-software/ |publisher=VentureBeat |access-date=6 July 2018|date=2018-02-27 }}

In November 2020, Hollenshead became Head of Publishing at Saber Interactive.{{fact|date=January 2024}}