Chris Cocks

Chris Cocks is the current President and CEO of Wizards of the Coast. As of April 11, 2016 he replaced Greg Leeds.

Cocks came to WotC from Microsoft, where he had been Vice President OEM Technical Sales. His more relevant experience comes from a two-year stint at LeapFrog from 2006-2008, where Cocks was a Vice President running the company’s $250M Learning Games unit, and during an earlier period as Group Product Manager at Microsoft Xbox, where he led portfolio planning and go-to-market strategies for the company’s action games.

Cocks’ digital background is an important component of his experience, and was one the reasons for getting hired. In January 2017, he incorporated both the Digital R&D team and the Magic Online team into the Digital Games Studio.