Don Mattrick

Donald Allan Mattrick OBC born February 13 1964 is a Canadian businessman who cofounded Distinctive Software DSI in 1982 in Vancouver at age 17 while graduating from high school and attending Simon Fraser University where he studied business and managerial economics DSI became the largest independent game developer in North America and was then acquired by Electronic Arts in 1991 who renamed it to EA Vancouver and later EA Canada Mattrick worked at EA Canada for 15 years as the president of Worldwide Studios In 2007 he joined Microsoft as the president of the Interactive Entertainment Business famous for developing Kinect for Xbox 360 From 2013 to 2015 he then became the CEO of publicly trading social gaming company Zynga Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Mattrick licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia