Mr. Matt Nuccio

Personal Details:

Nationality: United States of America

Email: matt@designedge.net  or  admin@uiausa.org

Languages: English

Matt Nuccio is the IFIA executive committee member.

He also is the president of Design Edge, Inc., a toy and game development company and licensing agency whose clients include Mattel, Hasbro, Spin Master, and Fisher-Price, to name only a few. For four years, Matt co-chaired the Toy Association (TA) on their associate panel, representing all designers and inventors within the toy industry. Currently, Matt sits on the board of directors of the United Inventors Association of America (UIA), a non-profit organization working to educate and advocate for all types of inventors. He also sits on the People of Play (POP) advisory board and Toy Association’s Creative Factor advisory board helping start-up inventors to navigate successfully within the Toy Industry.

Matt writes a column in Toy Family Entertainment magazine focusing on the industry, and he has lectured at ChiTAG, New York Toy Fair, ASTRA, Hong Kong Toy Fair, and various inventor clubs around the world, including the 2021 Emerging Innovation Summit in Melbourne, Australia. Design Edge’s products have been nominated for, and have also won, many industry awards, such as TOTY (Toy Of The Year), TAGIE (Toy and Games Innovators), Games 100, Origin, and Family Fun among others. In 2019, Matt was honored by the National Security Agency (NSA) as an American Innovator and has been listed for the past four years in a row, by Mojo Nation, as one of the top 100 most influential people in the toy industry today.www.designedge.net