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Jeff Pobst
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hidden Path Entertainment
Jeff has held roles as a game programmer, producer, chief operating officer of a game development company, and most recently a group leader at Microsoft for the Xbox and Xbox 360 platforms. Jeff has shipped over 20 game titles and has worked on four different platforms bringing games in the Half-Life, Homeworld, and Lord of the Rings franchises to market in addition to many others.
By being Sierra Studios' first external producer in 1998, Jeff had atypical involvement in all elements of the publishing business including developer acquisition, contract negotiation, profit and loss planning, forecasting, production oversight, manufacturing, documentation, interaction with quality assurance, marketing, public relations, and many others. When moving to WXP, an independent game development house, Jeff worked on the other side of the negotiation table, dealing with several publishers on actual and potential contracts, as well as overseeing budgets and executing business strategy.
Jeff joined Microsoft in 2002 to head up a group of developer liaisons working closely with game developers on the Xbox and Xbox 360 platforms to help improve the potential of their titles. Jeff was the main spokesperson for Microsoft when talking with game developers about Xbox 360 plans and represented the Advanced Technology Group on the third-party portfolio management team for the platform. Jeff has a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering and was a film student, a researcher, systems engineer, and project manager before entering game development.
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