Brian Yu is 33 years of age living in Los Angeles, California. He has been at Mattel for 9 years and has been enjoying his dream job that is designing board games for Mattel.

Yu and his brother, Dale have been playing games since childhood. Dale would encourage Yu on Saturday mornings to play Axis & Allies or Conquest of the Empire on the dining room table. He recalls enjoying a good amount of the Game Master Series games, the requisite games of Monopoly and other mass market games with him. He also has fond memories of an old TSR tank battle game called Sirocco.

With the arrival of home video games, Yu moved away from board games. He played plenty starting with the NES and continuing to the 360 and PS3.

In 1995, Yu got to know about The Settlers of Catan through a friend. He felt it was a revelation, but couldn’t make a connection. It was most likely an irregularity and he was happy to play it, but never thought to seek for more games like it. Later, Dale got Christmas Linie 1 and Fossil board games which Yu began playing. He was hooked, but still not a full nerd yet. Yu never got his own games but used to wait for Dale to return from college with new games and they would play during holidays.

Yu met a friend, Dan Sanfilippo who was an industrial designer and he had an internship with Hasbro. He offered him a job there. Yu went and applied for an internship for the next quarter, but was turned away since he wasn’t an Industrial Design major. Luckily, Yu got a job at Mattel and everything worked itself out in the end.

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