Jamey Stegmaier is the co-founder and president of Stonemaier Games, a company that started with a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and has grown into one of the most respected publishers in the world. With eight employees and over $23 million in revenue last year, Stonemaier proves that passion and quality can build something extraordinary.
If you've played Wingspan — and with nearly 2.5 million copies sold, there's a good chance you have — you've experienced his company's work. If you've built an empire in the alternate-history world of Scythe, managed a vineyard in Viticulture, explored dragon caves in Wyrmspan, or dove into the ocean depths with Finspan, you know the quality and care that defines Stonemaier.
But Jamey isn't just a publisher. He's a designer — the creative mind behind Scythe, Viticulture, Charterstone, Tapestry, and his latest projects: Vantage, an open-world cooperative game eight years in the making, and Origin Story, a superhero trick-taking game that just launched in October. He's also an author, a blogger who has openly shared every lesson learned from his crowdfunding journey, and more recently, someone who made headlines by taking legal action against the US government over tariffs that threaten the entire board game industry.