Jesse Janosov

Jesse Janosov entered the game industry as a developer at Microsoft in 1998 and has worked on all aspects of game technology across the entire stack from client to cloud. Jesse has extensive experience leading all disciplines of game development including experience across most game platforms and business models. He led Product at Playdom (sold to Disney) subsequently headed Zynga casino division where he led Poker to record revenues and net margins, while expanding the casino portfolio to also include Bingo and Slots. Janosov has experience in Venture Capital funding game and consumer investments and has board advised several large game companies. After a stint running both Lumberyard and Mobile Game development at Amazon, Jesse returned to Microsoft where he currently leads Xbox Community including the Xbox Live business. Jesse holds an MBA from Harvard Business School as well as bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.