Matt Kalish is President of DraftKings North America. Kalish co-founded DraftKings in 2012 and is accountable for all North America revenue, bringing together all marketing, operations, and related analytics functions. Matt unifies leadership for all marketing functions as well as related analytics teams. He has acted as Chief Revenue Officer before transitioning into his role as President, DraftKings North America.
Kalish is accountable for all North America operations and revenue, bringing together all DraftKings consumer brand, marketing, operations, and related analytics functions. At the core of his success as an entrepreneur and executive is a mind for creating disruptive products and technologies at the intersection of technology, media, and gaming and how to bring them to market to drive mass market consumer adoption.
Kalish, a lifelong fan of fantasy sports, sports betting, and strategy games, combined his experience in corporate analytics and e-commerce to become the “game master” of DraftKings. Due to Kalish’s foresight and guidance preparing for the overturn of PASPA, DraftKings Sportsbook was the first legal, online and mobile sports betting platform in New Jersey – the first state outside of Nevada to legalize sports betting. Kalish has been named to SBJ’s class of 2019 “Forty Under 40” for all of his excellence and innovation.
Kalish has led his team to go beyond the industry standards by finding ways to improve DraftKings’ customers’ game experience by introducing more sports and ways to play, driving DraftKings towards offering the most comprehensive platform for skin-in-the-game sports fans available in the US. Moreover, he maintains a strong focus on DraftKings’ consumer protections to ensure the company maintains high standards of integrity and responsibility, and is continuously optimizing the protections in place, operating in the best interest of its customers and community.
Kalish received his MBA from Boston College and holds degrees in economics and computer science from Columbia University.
