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Phil Spencer is the head of the Xbox division at Microsoft Corp., serving a role that unites the Xbox and Xbox Live development teams with the Microsoft Studios team. In this position as Head of Xbox (which was formed around Spencer on March 31, 2014,) Spencer leads the Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Music and Xbox Video teams as well as Microsoft Studios.
The Xbox unit has offices around the world developing games, entertainment and premium content experiences for Microsoft’s family of devices including Xbox One, Xbox 360, Kinect, Surface, Windows PC and mobile phones. Microsoft Studios is the home of blockbuster game franchises such as Halo, Kinect Sports, Fable, and Forza Motorsport.
Spencer joined Microsoft 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.
Before being named general manager of Microsoft Studios worldwide in 2008, and promoted to corporate vice president in 2009, Spencer served as general manager of Microsoft Game Studios EMEA, working with the European development community, including Microsoft acquisitions Lionhead Studios and Rare Ltd.
In his prior role of corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios at Microsoft Corp., Spencer's missi
