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Since 1997 I am wandering through many virtual worlds. For more than 11 years I have been founding online games companies and successfully licensed and rolled out online games across many territories by building up top teams with up to 220 employees.
The North American print magazine Beckett Massive Online Gamer honored me twice in their top 20 list of the most influential people within the MMO games business and thereby regarded me as the most influential German.
2004 I founded OnlineWelten, one of the largest online gaming portals in Europe with more than 800.000 unique visitors a month. OnlineWelten merged into Frogster Online Gaming and became the operational arm of Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, a stock market listed games publisher. A few month later I co-founded Frogster America & Frogster Asia.
Frogster successfully published and released AAA titles such as "Runes of Magic" by Runewaker (Taiwan), "TERA" by Bluehole (Korea) and "Bounty Bay Online" by Snail Game (China).
By the end of 2010 the Frogster group was sold to Gameforge for 95 Million US Dollar.
In May 2011 I founded Infernum Productions. 3 titles have been released to the European and North American market: "Brick Force", a block style Shooter by EXE Games (Korea), "Dragon's Prophet", a dragon fanatasy MMORPG by Runewaker (Taiwan) and "Hazard Ops", a third person shooter by Ying Pei Games(China).
In June 2015 Infernum assets have been taken over by gamigo AG and I joined different Advisory board seats.
I served as the CMO for my.com (now my.games) and more recently as the COO/CMO for the global gamigo group.
Work Experience
January 2019 - March 2023
Chief Marketing & Operations Officer
gamigo group - Hamburg/Berlin/Austin
About: Since its foundation in 2000, gamigo has developed into one of the leading publishers of online and mobile games in Europe and North America. In total, the gamigo group employs more than 350 employees at its headquarter in Hamburg and branches in Berlin, Münster, Darmstadt, Cologne (Germany), Redwood City, Austin, Chicago (USA), Warsaw (Poland), Istanbul (Turkey), and Seoul (South-Korea). The company’s core portfolio includes successful gaming titles such as Wizard 101, ArcheAge, Trove, Ironsight, Aura Kingdom, Rift, Desert Operations, Fiesta Online, Echo of Soul and Last Chaos. gamigo grows via organic growth as well as through acquisitions and has made over 20 acquisitions since 2013, including games, media and technology companies as well as individual game assets. The media companies adspree and Mediakraft are part of the platform strategy and also provide B2B services to third parties. | |
Responsibilities:
| Projects: Archeage by XL GamesTROVE by internal studio FIESTA Online by internal studio Desert Ops by internal studio Wizard 101 by Kingsisle Fantasy Town by Arumgames |
August 2016 - January 2019
Chief Marketing Officer
My.com B.V. - Amsterdam NL / Mountain View USA
About: My.com is a subsidiary of Mail.Ru Group Limited, the largest Internet company in Russian-speaking countries with an audience of 137.7 million users (comScore, April 2016, worldwide), that is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange. My.com brand’s vision is to build an integrated communication and entertainment platform, dubbed ‘communitainment’ beginning with a family of mobile apps and games, and expanding to PC games bringing immersive, massively multiplayer online experiences to the users. My.com games are being published on all mobile devices, PC and Consoles. | |
Responsibilities:
| Projects:  Skyforge by Team Allods Armored Warfare by Obsidian/Mail.ru Revelation Online by Netease Games VR Invaders by Mail.ru Cloud Pirates by Team Allods |
August 2016 - current
Advisor to the Board
Gondola.io, New York / USA
About: Gondola is the most popular dynamic pricing platform for games. It dynamically adjusts prices for both virtual goods and IAP based on player behavior. See your ARPU improve within weeks. |
September 2015 - current
Advisor to the Board
ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc., Austin / USA
About: ArtCraft Entertainment is an independent game development studio located in Austin, Texas. Founded by J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton the company employs a world-class cadre of artists, designers and engineers - a small team that includes some of the most experienced MMO developers. |
August 2015 - current
Advisor to the Board
TapStar Interactive, Inc., San Francisco / USA
About: TapStar Interactive is a boutique mobile game publisher and developer with multi-platform capability. Our goal is to create and publish unique and innovative gaming experiences that appeal to a wide range of players. The TapStar leadership team is made up of game industry veterans with over 80 years of combined experience. |
May 2011 - July 2015
Chief Executive Officer / Founder
Member of the Executive Board
Infernum Productions AG, Berlin / Germany
Responsibilities:
| Projects:  Brick-Force by Exe Games   Dragon's Prophet by Runewaker   Hazard Ops by Yingpei Games  |
February 2009 - April 2011
Chief Licensing Officer
Member of the Executive Board
Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, Berlin / Germany
Responsibilities:
| About: The Frogster Group was a market-listed holding company |
October 2008 - April 2011
Vice President / Co-Founder
Member of the Executive Board
Frogster America, Inc., San Francisco / USA
Responsibilities:
| Projects:  Runes of Magic by Runewaker |
May 2008 - April 2011
Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder
Member of the Executive Board
Frogster Online Gaming GmbH, Berlin / Germany
Responsibilities:
| Projects: Runes of Magic by Runewaker  Tera by Bluehole Studios  Bounty Bay Online by Snail Games  Mythos by Hanbitsoft  Raiderz by Maiet Entertainment  Spellborn by Spellborn Works  |
May 2004 - April 2011
Chief Executive Officer / Founder
Member of the Executive Board
Onlinewelten GmbH, Berlin / Germany
About:
Onlinewelten was one of the largest editorial online gaming portals in Europe with over 800.000 unique visitors per month. Onlinewelten was sold to the Frogster Group in 2008 and afterwards to IDG Communications Media AG.