Steamroller Technologies Breaks Ground on New Mount Dora Headquarters

ABOVE: Team members of Steamroller Technologies in front of the future site of the company's new headquarters.

Steamroller Technologies celebrated the groundbreaking of its new downtown Mount Dora headquarters that is expected to be completed in the summer of 2025.  The company is the sister company of Steamroller Animation, another Mount Dora technology enterprise.
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Steamroller Technologies has a team of 22 developers, animators, and engineers who specialize in content and software development for location-based entertainment for local and international clients, including theme parks and museums.  The team is led by Cofounders Keith Lackey and Phil Bias, and Operations Director Marissa Whitehill, Lackey won an Academy Award in February from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, when he was presented with a Technical Achievement Award for his work on a project called Atlas.

The company will lease the second and third floors of the new three-story building being erected adjacent to Steamroller Animation’s existing location at 301 N. Baker Street.  Each of the two floors Steamroller Technologies will occupy will have 2,500 square feet of office space.  

“We are thrilled to finally be breaking ground on our new space. We love being in Mount Dora with walkable access to great restaurants, coffee shops, and waterfront views,” said Bias. “We are glad that this building will give us the space we need to house our team, as well as demonstrate some of the immersive technologies we create.” 

ABOVE: The leadership team of Steamroller Technologies: Phil Bias, Marissa Whitehill, and Keith Lackey.

The sister company, Steamroller Animation, was founded in 2015 and moved to downtown Mount Dora in 2018 after outgrowing its historic Olde Chapel Hall office space in Eustis. The animation studio specializes in high-quality animation for major entertainment companies, including Sony, Paramount, Apple, Blizzard Entertainment, and Epic Games.  It recently announced the opening of a new remote office in Canada. Steamroller Animation CEO Aaron Gillman is from Vancouver, so an office was opened in British Columbia.

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