Chris Chaney

Chris Chaney is an experienced executive with a background in product management and business development across various industries, including gaming, technology, and e-commerce. Chris has held various leadership positions across companies such as Global Outlier Gaming, Coda Payments, Taunt, smartwhere, PopCap Games, Myspace, and Wavelink Corporation. At Coda Payments, they served as the Vice President of Product, overseeing the company's long-term product vision and executing on key strategic initiatives. Chris also served as the Director of Product at Taunt, where they restructured the organization to be goal-driven and aligned product and engineering through data-driven best practices. At smartwhere, they were a co-founder and focused on customer-driven product and business development. At PopCap Games, they spearheaded Popcap's F2P strategy and worked with senior executives across the EA Mobile Division. At Myspace, they served as the senior platform product manager and defined the platform strategy and backlog for apps and game platforms. Finally, at Wavelink Corporation, they were the director of web technologies, driving the company's initial web technology integration within various divisions and developing the company's authentication and anti-piracy system.

Chris Chaney attended Bellevue College from 1994 to 1995 and earned an AA degree in Arts. Chaney then went on to attend the University of Washington from 1995 to 1997, where they earned a BA degree in English/Creative Writing.