# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kellee-santiago
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:40:06.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kellee-santiago"
name: "Kellee Santiago"
slug: "kellee-santiago"
description: "Kellee Santiago is a Venezuelan American video game designer and producer. She is the co-founder and former president of thatgamecompany. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Santiago was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where she played video games from a young age and was encouraged by her software engineer father to experiment with computers. While attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she became active in experimental theater, planning to pursue it after earning a master's degree in the Interactive Media Program of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. However, Santiago became involved in video game design and produced Cloud, a game developed by Jenova Chen and a student team. Its success sparked her and Chen to found thatgamecompany upon graduating, and she became its president."
tagline: "American video game designer and producer (b. 1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kellee_Santiago_-_Game_Developers_Conference_2010_-_Day_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.56612933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KelleeSan"
    handle:    "KelleeSan"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleesantiago/"
    handle:    "kelleesantiago"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kelleesantiago.com/"
sources:
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    title: "كيلي سانتياغو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کلی سانتیاگو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%B3%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Сантьяго, Келли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellee_Santiago"
    title: "Kellee Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%B3%D0%BE"
    title: "Келлі Сантьяго"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%AF%E8%8E%89%C2%B7%E5%9C%A3%E8%BF%AA%E4%BA%9A%E6%88%88"
    title: "凯莉·圣迪亚戈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump