Alex Rigopulos (US)

Alex Rigopulos is Senior Director, Game Development - Music for Epic Games. Prior, he was the co-founder and former CEO of Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., a video game development studio in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in music-themed games, best known as the creator of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, two of the most successful franchises in the history of video games. In 2021, Harmonix was acquired by Epic Games, Inc., makers of the wildly popular game Fortnite, where Alex continues to serve as Harmonix's studio director. Prior to founding Harmonix, Alex studied music composition as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and computer music in graduate school at the MIT Media Lab. In 2008, Alex was included in TIME Magazine’s annual list of the “100 most influential people in the world”.