devcom Leadership Summit 2025:

Closing Keynote Speaker

(he/him)

COO at Fortis Games

Shawn is the COO of Fortis and focuses on product, publishing, community, and corporate development. He’s managed to work in games for over a decade, often resorting to founding companies so he has a place to work). Throughout that career, he’s been a lawyer, a business developer, a game designer, a producer, a founder, an executive, and a wandering sage (consultant of dubious value). He’s won a few, he’s lost a few. Through all of those ups and downs, he remains passionate about games as a creative medium and a way to bring people together. Fortis – as a global, remote company working in the design lane – is an attempt to follow that passion at a grand scale.

In his free time, he writes blogs and biographies about himself in the third person, which isn’t weird at all.