Peter Moore is one of the most popular and richest Business Executive who was born on March 16, 1955 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. English businessman, well-known for his work working for Microsoft along with EA Sports. He played a role in the promotion of Microsoft’s Xbox as well as the Xbox 360 prior to leaving the company in 2007, to take over as the COO at EA Sports. He was recognized while at Microsoft for his efforts to promote Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV with tattoos, though their durability is doubted.
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In January 20, 2003, Microsoft hired Moore to help the Xbox console to compete with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Nintendo’s GameCube. At Microsoft, Moore gained notoriety for displaying tattoos of Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV that he used when announcing the respective games (the former was used to announce Halo 2’s release date of 9 November 2004, while the latter was used to announce Grand Theft Auto IV). Some sources claim that the Halo 2 tattoo was not permanent and others have reported that Moore still has it.
On 17 July 2007, Electronic Arts announced that Peter Moore would be leaving Microsoft to head the sports division at Electronic Arts. Moore reportedly wanted to move back to the San Francisco Bay area to live with his family, which was possible with EA. His position as Vice-President of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft was filled by Don Mattrick (who later also left Microsoft to join Zynga as CEO).
He was raised in Liverpool and later moved to at San Francisco with his family.
