Christopher Gerding is a product design and manufacturing specialist. He has 20+ years of experience working with console and arcade video game related products. In the early 2000s, he worked extensively with console-focused, third-party accessory companies developing traditional gaming style handheld controllers.
Chris has designed and launched over 3 dozen new products into specialty and big box retail. He is named on several patents as a result of his extensive product development portfolio.
Chris has a long history of sourcing and manufacturing in both the US and overseas. Nowadays he focuses most of his time creating jobs in the US and manufacturing products in northeast Ohio.
Since 2005, he has been developing and manufacturing accessible gaming solutions for clients who live with fine motor disorders. Chris will attest to the power of accessibility. He believes video games are an important factor in the restoration of a person’s feeling of independence and purpose. Furthermore, some of his clients have reclaimed varying degrees of strength, range of motion, and mobility through consistent use of these control devices.