Game Director
6 December 1976 to 8 October 2023
A British game director, who was a director in the Game Ecosystem Commercial team at Microsoft Xbox. Nick Ferguson got his start in the industry as a games tester at Rare in 1999, before doing level design for Creature Labs and Asylum Entertainment. Later, as lead producer, he worked on such games as Need For Speed: Underground 2 (2004) and FIFA 06 (2005) for EA and Gears of War 4 (2016) for Microsoft. He also worked at Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, before his move back to Microsoft in 2021 where he launched its ID@Azure program in 2022.
