2025 Speakers
Matt Charles, Chief Product Officer / Co-Founder, Cooldown Games
Matt Charles is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of game publisher Cooldown Games where he is focused on promoting games that respect a player's time, attention, and wallet - without burning out the dev team. Matt represents a publisher that thinks like a developer, as he has spent about equal amounts of time on both the development and publishing side of the business. Prior to starting Cooldown, Matt spent seven years building and managing the publishing portfolio at Gearbox Publishing. Before his work on the publishing side, Matt spent nine fun-filled years as a development project producer at Gearbox Software working on the first three Borderlands titles, including the critically-acclaimed Borderlands 2, and also worked at id Software to launch Quake Champions with teams across the world. Matt has been recognized in the Forbes 30-Under-30 Video Games category and has presented at GDC, IGDA events, and other conferences & universities about games production topics.
