Glu Mobile veteran heads to the Midwest to join mobile gaming startup PerBlue

Venture capitalists are pouring billions of dollars into startups in San Francisco, where a lot of the digital gaming industry has concentrated. But not everybody is staying in the region.

Matt Ricchetti, the former president of studios for San Francisco’s Glu Mobile, recently headed to the Midwest as chief product officer of PerBlue, a mobile game company in Madison, Wis. He’ll lead that studio’s efforts to come up with the next big mobile game. And why not? The mobile gaming industry has spread around the globe like wildfire, putting places like Helsinki on the map thanks to games like Clash of Clans and Angry Birds — and creating a $25 billion industry.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.