Alex Rigopulos

Alex Rigopulos

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occupation = Co-Founder/CEO, Harmonix

Alexander Peter "Alex" Rigopulos is the CEO of Harmonix Music Systems, a company he founded with Eran Egozy in 1995. Rigopulos personally cites Japanese game designers Masaya Matsuura, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and Keita Takahashi as some artists that have inspired his work at Harmonix. [http://www.gamespot.com/video/938871/6171974/behind-the-games-alex-rigopulos Behind the Games: Alex Rigopulos] at GameSpot] . Rigopulos and Harmonix co-founder Eran Egozy were listed in Time Magazine's 2008 list of the 100 most influential people for their work on Rock Band [cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733752_1735901,00.html |title=Alex Rigopulos & Eran Egozy |accessdate=2008-05-14 |last=Van Zandt |first=Steven |coauthors= |date=2008-05-01 |work= Time 100|publisher=Time Magazine] .

Graduate of Deerfield Academy along with two other brothers.

Alex also donated $2,000 to the ScoreHero website, a website used to track Guitar Hero and Rock Band scores.

Rigopulos graduated with an S.B. in Music and Theater Arts in 1992 and an S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences in 1994 from the Media Lab at MIT. [http://alum.mit.edu] [http://www.gamecritics.com/feature/interview/rigopulos/page01.php Interview with Alex Rigopulos] at GameCritics.com]

Rigopulos is a donor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

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