our founders
Jen MacLean
Chief Executive Officer
Jen got her start in the games industry because she was on her college fencing team. (Seriously. Her coach, who worked at legendary game studio MicroProse, noticed Jen’s devotion to Tetris during road trips, and recommended her for a part-time job as a playtester.) From there she built her lifelong love of video games into a successful career managing development of award-winning games, leading partnerships worth billions of dollars, and creating ground-breaking entertainment strategies.
Most recently, Jen was the General Manager of Creator Partnerships for Xbox, where her team managed Xbox’s largest partner relationships and Jen co-led content strategy for new initiatives. She is passionate about games of all genres, especially the Persona franchise from Atlus, all things Civilization, and Crusader Kings III.
Jen earned an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a BA from the Johns Hopkins University, and owes a huge debt to her long-ago fencing coach.
Michelle Menard
Chief Creative Officer
Michelle Menard is a Co-Founder and CCO of Dragon Snacks Games. Most recently she was the Design Director at Oxide Games.
Michelle has previously worked in leadership and senior roles in the mobile, AAA, and board game market, as a consultant under Artemic Games LLC, and was once invited to the White House to blabber about game design and crowd-sourcing for big data. She is the author of Game Development with Unity, and has served as an Adjunct Professor at multiple universities, teaching game design, theory, and game history.
Michelle holds a double BA from Brown University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Outside of work she likes stinky cheeses, stinky sheep fleeces, and making stuff from those things. But not together.
chris nemcosky
Chief Technical Officer
Chris Nemcosky is the Co-Founder and CTO of Dragon Snacks Games. He is formerly VP of Studio at Scopely, bringing the massive worldwide hit Monopoly Go to market, and VP of Engineering at Backflip Studios, working on Dragon Vale, Papertoss, and Spell Fall. Chris has been active in game engineering, production, and leadership for 20 years, across multiple genres.
A proud papa of a genuine Gen Alpha Gamer, Chris is excited to bring play experiences to market that resonate with his son and the rest of Gen Z and Alpha.
the team
We hire for trust, ownership, teamwork, and player focus. Our team is small but mighty, and we believe cross-discipline work is a superpower. Check the Careers page if this is a place you might like to call “home.”
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Art Director
With over 30 years in the gaming industry, Steve has worked in both board and video games, specializing in illustration, concept art, art direction, and managing large teams. Steve began his career at The Avalon Hill Game Company, contributing to games like Rune Quest and We the People. As a founding member of Talon Soft, he served as Art Director, leading 19+ titles, including Battle of the Bulge and Gettysburg. At Break Away Games, Steve worked on Cleopatra and Sid Meier’s Antietam and was promoted to Studio Art Director. Later, he managed art teams at Day1 Studios for Fracture, Warner Bros' F.E.A.R. 3and other high-profile demos. As Senior Art Producer at Zenimax, Steve led art production for The Elder Scrolls Online, managing70+ team members. He then helped start-up Oxide Games as Art Manager for Ashes of the Singularity and Ara: History Untold, collaborating with Microsoft on the latter. Steve is now Art Director at Dragon Snacks Games, a new game studio creating social experiences that leverage user-generated content and cooperative gameplay.
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Senior Writer and Narrative Designer
Paul is the Senior Writer and Narrative Designer for Dragon Snacks Games, where he hopes to help create an engaging and charming world for players to enjoy. A veteran of the New York gaming scene, Paul has designed award-winning boardgames and miniature rules. Paul has written and edited numerous roleplaying games and supplements, including Paranoia: A Darkly Humorous Roleplaying Game, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, and various other systems nobody remembers. Since then, Paul has ventured into the video game world, where he’s held several dubious managerial positions and written narrative and content for Zynga’s Frontier Ville, Firaxis Games' Sid Meier’s Civilization franchise, and Ara, History Untold. With more than 30 game design, development, and writing credits to his name, Paul is the only employee at Dragon Snacks Games who could be accurately said to have a pate.
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Lead Software Engineer
Jason Yegge been programming games since 2008. He started working on MMORPGs (LEGO Universe) at Net Devil, where he implemented and maintained various critical gameplay systems and developed physic-based mini-games. Jason then worked on client-side development and shaders at Dire Wolf Digital, contributing to Eternal, The Elder Scrolls Legends, and The Pokemon Trading Game Online. As Lead Software Engineer at Backflip, Jason coded for mobile games Dragon Vale World and other unannounced titles. At Scopely Jason was again Lead Software Engineer, leading teams and producing scalable architecture for Monopoly GO! a massive hit title with millions of Daily Active Users (DAUs). Jason then returned to Dire Wolf to lead their client-side team. Most recently, Jason has joined Dragon Snacks Games, where he’s helping to create games for the next generation of players.
advisors and select investors
ron boire
CEO, Barnes and Noble
President/CEO, Sears Holdings and Sears Canada
President and CEO, Brookstone
President, Consumer Sales and Marketing, Sony Electronics
Shannon loftis
VP, Xbox Game Studios and Studio Head, World’s Edge Studio
GM, Global Game Publishing, Microsoft
GM, Xbox Entertainment Studios
scott hartsman
Strategy Consultant, Sony Interactive Entertainment
CEO, Trion Worlds
Executive Producer, RIFT, Trove, EverQuest Franchise
Lori wright
Corporate Vice President, Xbox Partnerships and Business Development
Independent Director, Kahoot!
Michael capps, phD
CEO, Founder, Board Chair, Howso AI
Advisor to the CEO, Unity Technologies
President, Epic Games
brian baum
SVP, Data Analytics, Paramount
Senior Director, Data Platform, Blizzard
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