Leslie Peter Benzies (born 17 January 1971) is a Scottish video game producer and founder of the gaming studio Build a Rocket Boy. He is the former president of Rockstar North, a subsidiary of Rockstar Games, and the lead producer on the Grand Theft Auto series from Grand Theft Auto III to Grand Theft Auto V (including Grand Theft Auto Online). Benzies left Rockstar in 2016 and was involved in a lawsuit with its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, over unpaid royalties from April 2016 to February 2019.
Early life
Benzies was born in Aberdeen but moved to Elgin when he was young. When Benzies was 11, his father Leonard purchased a Dragon 32 computer. Benzies taught himself how to program and wrote his first game.[2]
Career
Benzies' professional career as a video game programmer began in 1995 at DMA Design (now Rockstar North), where he was team lead developing the