Nathan Wheeler is Co-founder and Head of Product at Live Aware Labs. He built his early career as an educator in Seattle before transitioning into game development at the indie studio Very Very Spaceship. Nathan’s unique blend of educational experience and hands-on development expertise has made him a master of community-driven design, perfectly positioning him to lead innovative product strategies in the rapidly evolving gaming and technology landscape.

I'm on a lifelong mission to bring people closer together through creative collaboration, expression and play. Known for my ability to build, lead and inspire diverse teams and leveraging 25+ years of high quality video game development. Co-founder and CEO at Live Aware Labs (https://www.liveaware.io/) where we are building an AI powered user insights platform to enable teams to leverage the power of community feedback at scale.

Shipped my first game in 1995 eventually landing at Fasa Interactive working on Mechwarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies. From there to Microsoft where I continued with Fast Studios eventually becoming Director of Engineering. After a brief stop in publishing, was a founding member and director of engineering for 343 Industries shipping Halo 4, Halo 5 and Halo Infinite. I now lead engineering as the CTO for Live Aware Labs, a service the strives to unify all feedback (player, sentiment, and team) in one easy to use HUB.