Marcus like most kids grew up playing video games. While most kids remain just a gamer, Marcus took his love and passion for playing video games and turned it into a career, and then a business! Marcus Matthews is the CEO and co-founder of Blue Heat Games and has a wealth of quality game development experience. Marcus was Senior Producer at Sega of America, and in that role, Marcus headed Sega Sports and was responsible for developing all sports games for the launch of Dreamcast, which included NFL 2K and NBA 2K. The games produced by Marcus have sold over 1.5 million units worldwide to date. Before joining Sega in 1996, Marcus worked the interactive arena at IBM's Multimedia Publishing Studio and turner Broadcasting's games group and produced products involving Turner entities such as Castle Rock, New Line Cinema, and Hanna Barbera. Before starting Blue Heat, Marcus was also a consultant for Venture-Atlantic, a private equity firm that advised early stage startup technology firms.

Marcus received a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1992.