Fortis Games at BIG Festival 2022!

Fortis, a BIG Festival Master Support, will have its COO at the event as a keynote speaker on Building a Design Oriented Company

Fortis, a global, remote-first studio, will be actively recruiting new talent at the festival.

Fortis Games is a BIG Festival Master Support and has its COO coming to speak in person on stage in Auditorium 1 on the topic of Building a Design Oriented Company on July 7th at 2:00 p.m. Founded by industry veterans, Fortis is a new global video game developer and publisher with a mission to create meaningful social experiences through interactive entertainment. With over 150 employees already on board and a powerhouse leadership team of entrepreneurs and executives from Electronic Arts, WB Games, Zynga, Smule, and more, the company plans to continue its rapid growth.

Shawn Foust has sold multiple startups in Silicon Valley and was most recently a Warner Brothers Game Executive following the acquisition of his last company. As the COO of Fortis Games, he oversees strategy, corporate development, community development, and product alongside the company’s Chief Product Officer.

He will talk about fundraising in games, the competitive landscape, and why companies that focus on design innovation tend to have difficulty in finding partners. He will discuss how that impacted the founding of Fortis games and its strategy around building a global remote-first studio with a focus on countries such as Brazil.

Fortis is built around a strong belief that there is an enormous opportunity to innovate in system design for service-driven games and that talent across the world should be given a chance to participate in that effort. It has made three acquisitions as a part of its long-term talent strategy (Oktagon Games in Brazil, Doppio Games in Portugal, and Metagame in Romania) and is hiring globally.

Brazilian entrepreneurs Ronaldo Cruz and Jeferson Valadares, who previously led Oktagon and Doppio, respectively, join Fortis’ leadership team.

If you’re interested in having a conversation with Shawn, Jeferson, or Ronaldo, please reach out via the BIG Festival meeting matchmaking service.