Ilan Spillinger, Corporate Vice President for Hardware Architecture within the Interactive Entertainment Business, joined Microsoft in late 2007. He currently leads the Xbox 360 and Kinect architecture and verification, silicon design, hardware incubation, and business development efforts for the Interactive Entertainment Business Hardware division. This team of engineers spans across three global sites including Redmond, Silicon Valley, and Israel.

Previously, during a six-year tenure with IBM, Spillinger served as a distinguished engineer and vice president for advanced processor design. In that role he was responsible for development of all Power Architecture-based processors at IBM: server processors, embedded processors and client-driven solutions. Prior to that, Spillinger was a principal engineer and manager of the architecture team in Intel Israel, responsible for the definition of x86-based low-cost and low-power microprocessors, specifically the first Intel mobile processor in the Intel Centrino roadmap.

Spillinger holds a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.