Jeff Pobst

Jeff has been involved in the gaming industry for over twenty years as a programmer, producer, and chief operating officer before co-founding HPE. Jeff was a group leader at Microsoft for the Xbox and Xbox 360 platforms and has also shipped over 40 different game titles on multiple PC, console, and VR platforms. Prior to working on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Defense Grid and other HPE franchises, he’s had the privilege of bringing games in the Half-Life, Homeworld and Lord of the Rings franchises to players.

Jeff was Sierra Studio’s first external publishing producer in 1998 and joined Microsoft Xbox in 2002 leading a group of developer liaisons working closely with game developers around the world. Jeff was a spokesperson for Xbox to game developers and was on the third-party portfolio management team for the platform.

Before game development, Jeff earned a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering and was a film student, a space propulsion researcher and a systems engineer.