General Manager, First-Party Publishing Microsoft Corp.
Phil Spencer is the general manager of Microsoft Game Studios’ First-Party Publishing organization at Microsoft Corp., responsible for building great games with all of Microsoft’s development partners, including “Project Gotham Racing® 3” for the next-generation Xbox® system, “Forza Motorsport™,” “Jade Empire” and “Fable” for Xbox, and “Dungeon Siege II” and “Rise of Nations®” for Windows®. He also oversees two of Microsoft’s most prominent development studios, Rare and Bungie.
Spencer joined Microsoft Corp. in 1988 as an intern in the CD-ROM Group. He spent the first five years of his career in the CD-ROM/Multimedia Group as a development lead building Microsoft’s first CD-ROM-based titles, including Microsoft® Bookshelf® and Encarta®. After working on a series of titles, he created a centralized development team chartered with building a shared authoring and runtime system for all Microsoft’s multimedia titles.
In 1994 Spencer moved to the Desktop Finance Division as the development manager for Microsoft Money and Microsoft’s early work in online banking transactions. In 1999 he moved to a product unit manager role in Consumer Productivity, and eventually became general manager of Microsoft’s online and offline consumer productivity products including Microsoft Works, Microsoft Picture It!® and Microsoft’s consumer publishing products.
Spencer and his wife Kelli have been married for 13 years and have two beautiful daughters, ages 9 and 6. Outside of work, Spencer enjoys spending time with his family, snowboarding, playing golf and video games, and goofing off.
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