Chris Wiese began in the gaming industry as the marketing director and acting CEO of Holistic Design.
He has made contributions to a number of their products, most particularly in the design of deck plans such as the Letters of Marque starship line, along with Space Station Cirrus.
He is the co-designer (with Ken Lightner) of Noble Armada,[1]: 323 a miniatures game based on the flagship Holistic RPG Fading Suns.
Under his tenure as vice president of GAMA, he more than doubled the income of the Origins Game Fair.
[3] His other credits include the Living Force Campaign Guide (2001) for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Edition, and the Fading Suns Player's Guide (Revised Edition, 2012) Holistic shut down production in 2003, at which point Wiese remained as the company President, and continued to spend his time with both GAMA and the new company he started, World Builders.