Manuel Bronstein

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Manuel is Director of Xbox LIVE Primetime and is responsible for vision, development, business and bringing this new breed of entertainment network and content to market

Xbox LIVE Primetime combines the anticipation and production values of programmatic and highly engaging TV content with the interactivity of video games and stickiness of connected, social and highly concurrent experiences. The first experience will be based on the popular TV game show “1 vs. 100

Bronstein’s Microsoft career started as a product planner on Xbox 360, leading planning efforts for the accessories, software applications and incubation teams during the development of Xbox 360. Manuel later led the Xbox Incubation Team and served as a liaison between the Xbox organization and the startup and venture capital community. Over his career at Microsoft, Bronstein has contributed to more than 10 patent submissions

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Bronstein started his professional career at one of the pioneering web development companies in Venezuela. He later worked in the marketing team at Procter & Gamble before joining Tokenzone, Inc. as a Director of product management.

Manuel received a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he worked on projects for AOL Music and Hewlett Packard in India. He currently resides in the Seattle area with his wife and two sons.