- 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 withEran Egozy in 1995. Rigopulos personally cites Japanese game designersMasaya Matsuura ,Tetsuya Mizuguchi , andKeita 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] atGameSpot ] . Rigopulos and Harmonix co-founderEran Egozy were listed inTime 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 trackGuitar Hero andRock Band scores.Rigopulos graduated with an
S.B. in Music and Theater Arts in 1992 and anS.M. in Media Arts and Sciences in 1994 from theMedia 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.References
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