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Don mattrick biography
Don Mattrick
Canadian businessman
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| Born | Donald Allan Mattrick (1964-02-13) February 13, 1964 (age 60)[1] Vancouver, Canada |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Known for | Former CEO of Zynga |
Donald Allan MattrickOBC (born February 13, 1964) is a Canadian businessman who co-founded 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.[2] In 2007, he joined Microsoft as the president of the Interactive Entertainment Business, famous for developing Kinect for Xbox 360.[3] From 2013 to 2015, he then became the CEO of p