GLOBAL TOP ROUND - Key Persons
Aaron is a serial-entrepreneur playing a major role in supporting and accelerating both game and non-game startups from around the world. He is the founder and CSO of TAB the Momentum, an early stage focused global accelerator based in South Korea that actively supports numerous promising startups to achieve tangible growth momentum and enter global markets. Prior to founding TAB the Momentum, he co-founded an automobile tuning brake manufacturing company, PA Sports, which is the top selling brand in Korean car tuning business. Through GTR, he envisions of meeting lots of talented game developers from around the world, and helping them successfully launch their creative titles free of resource and financial burdens.
Aiden has a robust game career beginning with Nexon for 8 years, who has been in charge of HR, investment and even a full range of game operation by 2014. He joined MOBILFACTORY in late 2014, and has contributed with sophisticated strategy based on real experience and encouraged developers with rich experience in mobile game operation. Ryan Choi - SEA Global Business Development Ryan has been leading market strategy and business development over various disciplines within Consumer Electronics, Information Technology and Content industries for the past 11 years. He was previously the Head of Digital Partnerships for Southeast Asia at The Walt Disney Company. In his various roles at Disney, he helped to grow the company's digital presence in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) through disruptive partnerships and successfully launched Disney's Branded OTT services with key partners in the region. Prior to Disney, Ryan was a New Business Development Lead at Google based in Tokyo and Seoul where he built the team from the ground up from recruiting, training and managing an acquisition and a sales ops team to expanding new High Potential (HIPO) SMB development in local markets.
André Bernhardt has been part of the games industry for the past 18 years and is very experienced within the online, as well as "offline" and mobile game publishing industry. He worked at different PC, console and mobile publishers like Sony Computer Entertainment, Sunflowers, RTL Games and Travian Games before he founded IndieAdvisor in 2012. Since then he is working as a freelance agent supporting developers to find a publisher and vice versa while teaching at different high schools or giving lectures at games conferences where he also organizes indie exhibitions and events. Indie Advisor offers external business development for developers, start-ups and publishers. In 2015 he then founded Target Games together with Thorsten Unger and became the European partner for GTR.
At GTR he is focused on getting more European developers, publishers and service providers to join the great GTR ecosystem.
Aymeric founded Umanimation with the goal to define the next generation of entertaiment content by producing transmedia universes. Everything from TV Series, short films, content and of course video games. Aymeric and the team will continue to build interactive storytelling for as long as the Company exists.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Is Director of Necrosoft Games
Brandon Sheffield is director of Necrosoft Games, a small distributed studio with its main office in Oakland, California. Brandon was formerly editor in chief of Game Developer magazine, and senior contributing editor to Gamasutra.com, and currently advises multiple game conferences, publications, and startups, alongside game development work.
He has worked on both digital and packaged games across all platforms, and is looking forward to helping to make your game be the best it can be.
Job Titles:
- International Business Development Manager for Web and Mobile at Goodgame Studios
Caglar Eger is the International Business Development Manager for Web and Mobile at Goodgame Studios, he has been with the organization since 2012. At Goodgame Studios, Caglar is responsible for analyzing the potential of emerging markets like Turkey, MENA, Asia and establishing Goodgame Studios as a market player in high potential countries and regions. He wears multiple hats in his current role and his expertise in markets like China have led to strategic partnerships for Goodgame Studios with Qihoo 360 which is the largest third part App store in China
Job Titles:
- Partner / Swiss Founders Fund / MARKETING
Dan Stern is cofounder and developer relationships manager at a new Osaka-based indie publisher, Dangen Entertainment. He has lived in Japan for ten years. Tokyo and Osaka have proven amazing, but his heart lies in the mountains of Nagano. He loves reading, history, music, and of course games. Among his favorites are the Square Soft SNES classics and the indie games that have brought that era back.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Founder
- Member of the Core
- Head of USA ] CEO, Founder
Danny is Founder and CEO at GTR. He has 10+ years experience in business strategy development from small/medium to industry-leading companies such as Samsung and NHN. Most recently, he has built his professional career as a venture capitalist participating in a 15 Million dollar game fund investing into early stage game startups at NHN Investment. He is also co-founder of Tab the Momentum, an internet/mobile startup accelerator in Korea which invested into over 20 startups and helped them grow substantially.
Now at GTR, Danny and his team are acting as angel investors, and consultants for startups - mixing up business and investment knowledge, providing skills and networks and establishing a robust ecosystem of gaming experts and business professionals from the gaming sector to help game studios and individual game developers to get to the next level. Danny truly believes that the GTR ecosystem can help game developers make creative and commercial games and to pursue sustainable futures.
Danny is a Founding Partner at GTR Accelerator and at TAB the Momemtum, well known for accelerating and investing small and medium-sized firms. He had professional careers as a game fund manager for &start (http://nstart.nhnent.com/), venture capitalist and professional angel investor for many years. He also experienced various business developments for game and non-game business industries.
Danny envisions in the advanced balance of the mobile game industry, so he has built the GTR Ecosystem with global mobile game specialists and people in relation to mobile games. GTR ecosystem will help indie mobile developers to get more beneficial opportunities for global business.
David Chun is a private banker at a Korean top-tier financial institution. He manages assets for the super rich and has been doing so for the last 18 years. He is well known in the industry for his professionalism and commitment towards his clients. Most of his clients are founders and C level executives of renown IT companies and gaming companies.
He now manages 2 billion dollars worth of assets and invests them companies in all stages of development from start ups in their angel, series A/B/C stages to companies that are ready to go IPO or that have already listed.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director at Headup Games
Dieter Schoeller is now Managing Director at Headup Games in Germany. He has various experience at major media & game studios such as UBI soft, Koch Media, and RTL Studios. Koch Media. Dieter has an experty at interactive entertainment industry.
Job Titles:
- Finance Adviser / JC & ASSOCIATES
Since 2008 Ella Romanos has been helping build and manage games development teams and has a deep understanding of the resources, processes and commercial considerations through being directly responsible for releasing over 50 games. She has also worked with a range of investors supporting grant applications as well as debt, project and equity funding, leveraging her experience in production, fundraising and company strategy. She has been twice mentioned as MCV's UK Top 100 Women in Games, named in Develop's ‘Top 30 under 30' and has sat on the board of directors of UKIE, the UK trade body for games, for 5 years. Twitter @ella_romanos Oscar Clark [ Europe ] Chief Strategy Officer Fundamentally Games Oscar is the bearer of one of the most recognizable hats in the games industry; and has a reputation for hosting, speaking and moderating at games industry events around the world. He has been working with online games since 1998 running BT's online games platform, Wireplay. Since then he has been global lead for games for Hutchison Whampoa and their mobile operator Three in the UK, the most successful mobile games platform in terms of revenue per user in the world in 2005. He was also Home Architect for Sony's Online Virtual World, Playstation Home and evangelist for Unity Ads, one of the most successful advertising networks in games. He literally wrote the book "Games As A Service" which was published in 2014 by Routledge. Twitter @athanateus
Emily Souza is a market research professional, specializing in the analysis of data and trends in the video game industry. She currently supports some of the largest names in the industry as the West Coast Client Director for Newzoo's San Francisco office.
As ex- ceo of NHN SEA, Eric is a veteran with 17 years of experience in the Game industry. He possesses expertise from both the development side as well as the business side and has held various key management positions with NCSOFT, IMC Games, IAH Games, NHN SEA and Cocone Singapore. Eric has extensive experience in setting up businesses and operations and was instrumental in setting up businesses for NHN SEA, LINE SEA and Cocone Singapore.
Eric brings unique value to the GTR team with his expertise in not only game project management but also professional localization and operations. Eric has executed several multi-million dollar publishing contracts and thus is well known and well connected in the SEA, Korean and Japanese market.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
Eric works as Business Development Manager at Yodo1.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager, Digital Games & Fashion
Frank Sliwka is an games & esports industry veteran and has been in the industry since 1997. He's been recognized by awards in various regions due to his commitment to growth, expansion and P&L optimization for games, esports & media. Through his network GTR hopes to continue to expand into more verticals, and create a bigger footprint around the world in the gaming industry.
Hampus has been involved in the gaming industry his whole life, but just recently decided to take the step into the professional scene of the industry due to GXC's ambitious goals.
He's good at connecting with people and has extensive knowledge on all big titles over the years. He's able to instantly connect with gamers and studios alike and capturing these moments on camera.
On his free time he's a hobby investor and has always been interested in growing startups. At GXC he'll be taking care of our communities, connecting with our studios and managing people at our events. He'll help us bring our content to life.
Job Titles:
- Counsel in the Corporate and Securities Practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Legal Advisor
Hans Kim is Of Counsel in the corporate and securities practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He represents technology and growth companies at all stages of development and provides counsel on general corporate matters. Hans also represents companies in cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on Asia.
Hans also worked at Renren Games and helped open their first U.S. office in 2012. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Digital Eclipse/Backbone Entertainment, one of the original game studios of Foundation 9 Entertainment.
Job Titles:
- REGIONAL PARTNER
- CXO, Co - Founder
As co-founder and CSO of H2 Interactive, a new born Japanese game publisher, Heita has been in the game industry for more than 10 years. Prior to co-founding H2 Interactive, Heita led IGAWorks as Managing Director and held senior level management positions at Gamepot and Gree. Having spent 4 years in Korea as EVP of IGAWorks, Heita is very familiar with both the Korean and Japanese game industries. Heita brings an enormous amount of diversified experience from both a professional but also a regional perspective into GTR. With the addition of Heita and his broad network of professionals onto the GTR team, GTR expects to be able to well penetrate and open doors for GTR cohort studios into the Japanese market. Youngmok Park - Korea, Global Game Business & Networks With 30 years of experience in the gaming industry, YM was fortunate enough to be involved in launching various blockbuster game titles from top tier game productions. His track record ranges from Age of Empires at Microsoft, moving onto online gaming with launching Lineage 2 at NCSoft as Marketing VP, to World of WarCraft at Blizzard Entertainment as one of the top executives in Korea. He then established and led both Crytek Korea and Crytek APAC HQ mainly working on Warface and Cryengine projects. The gaming industry swiftly shifting to mobile, NHN (Naver and Hangame) invited him to set up Orangecrew, the largest mobile development company in Korea. YM is now running his own mobile game development studio called Nchant Interactive. Recently, YM established 4 companies including 2 startups. He plays a material role as a mentor and advisor to many startups in both the online and offline sector via channels such as multi-national consulting firms, the Korean Government and GTR.
Ivy is presently working as a program manager in GTR who plans and organizes the programs run by GTR such as Local program, Conference and Acceleration program. As a program manager, she is currently in charge of planning and proposing the program to the governments and sponsors from all around the world that are interested and keen to support the game startups and game industry.
She also currently works on a game lab initiative with wework to establish physical GTR game acceleration lab in selected cities inviting studios, investors, and sponsors from the global and run incubating program/workshop at this lab to build deep and close network creating productive gaming ecosystem.
Founder of Reload Studios. James has worked on creating products for some of the most influential game companies in recent years. As a developer for core and casual games, he has garnered invaluable experience and practical knowledge in the development and production of interactive media.
Jean is an experienced product leader with more than 15 years of experience launching and operating online and mobile products. Her areas of expertise are service business planning, UI/UX wireframe, localization, QA, product launch, live operations, marketing and product management. She has managed product and creative teams across more than 20 online and mobile services including online games, video streaming, e-commerce, search and more.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- CPO, Product
Jee Won Kim is presently working as a CPO of Global Top Round(GTR). Responsibilities include driving the product vision of GTR. He manages strategy process from creative strategy to product execution. He leads a multi-disciplinary projects working on global campaigns and platforms. He worked at AKQA, where he worked on 360 global integrated campaigns on major clients including Google, Hyundai USA, Calvin Klein. He later joined Ogilvy & Mather as an art director and UX&UI designer, developed campaigns and platforms for flagship brands such as: IBM, Blackrock and Philips. His work has been honored with AIGA, Creative Quarterly, and TDC.
Jeffrey is a founder of So.Ventures. He has been through many industry as experts, executives, founder and investor - 3d structure analysist for Samsung Group, IT consultant for LG Group, vice president for Korea Corporate Investment, CEO for the biggest museum company from Korea., CEO and director for Singapore and Thailand companies, advisor for UBP and Julius Baer Swiss Bank, founder and investor for several IT companies and online game companies.
With a background in the gaming industry, fine arts and marketing, Jessica is working toward bringing value from her diversified portfolio to market GTR to indie studios.
Jessica offers a perspective based on emotional intel from the gaming community and data provided by the market. Her goal in life is to become a key player in the industry, by providing useful insights to companies about their customers and improving the user experience across multiple platforms and media. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games to her small audience on Twitch, where she can engage in conversations with other gamers. At GTR, she will be taking care of the marketing executions.
Job Titles:
- Data Analyst
- Member of the Core
- Software Developer
- Tech Team Leader, SW Developer
Jin J. Kim is a Data Analyst and Software Developer in charge of system development and operation at GTR. Jin is now leading research and development for G.ROUND, user-powered global game testing publishing, and for blockchain technologies in GTR game ecosystem.
Graduating from the school of Computer System Technology (CST) at BCIT(British Columbia Institute of Technology) in Canada, and finishing a master degree in Computer Science from Soong-sil University in Korea, he is an expert in web development, machine learning, and distribute computing systems. Several years prior to joining GTR, Jin did research on an Exobrain project regarding a self-evoking knowledge base and reasoning platform based on the fundamentals of big data. He also worked on an expert knowledge acquisition system project, on online community contents search and analysis engine research project and on IT consulting at a startup accelerator.
Jin Y. Bae is CSO at Line Games. He co-founded Mobil Factory, mobile game studio, and the company was acquired by NextFloor . Recently Line Games acquired NextFloor. NextFloor, established in 2012, has quickly become a successful, innovative game company, employing more than 200 people. NextFloor's global presence extends to its offices in Seoul, Tokyo, and Shanghai. NextFloor performed spectacularly in its first year due to the success of its premiere game, Dragon Flight, which grossed more than $77M after its launch in 2012. The company's latest game, Destiny Child, climbed to first place in the top grossing apps list at both Googleplay store and Apple Appstore. Prior to NextFloor and Mobil Factory, he was an investment associate at Nexon Korea Investment Division and Nexon China Strategic Investment Division as well as an investment analyst of a local PE firm in Korea.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Lead Programmer at Kitfox Games
Jongwoo Kim is a co-founder and lead programmer at Kitfox Games, an indie game studio based in Montreal. Kitfox has most recently released Moon Hunters, a co-op action RPG for Steam and PS4. As an avid game jammer, Jongwoo participated in 14 different game jams in 2015.
Justin Doh has over 12 years of gaming industry experience from marketing to business development to live operations. With his diverse experience, he is currently in mobile gaming business sector to oversee the games quality and its market performance.
Worked at OMUK, one of the UK's leading Dialogue production studios for the games Industry as well as working previously with their main competitor, Side (Now owned by PitStop Productions) on multiple AAA projects. Also worked extensively with several other small indie game studios in the position of sound designer, composer, game designer and project manager/producer, often all at the same time. I've had the pleasure of working with some incredibly talented people on some really fun projects, some released and some that unfortunately never saw the light of day. I like to wear many hats and get involved in all aspects of the game development process. Phil Gonzalez [ SPAIN ] Founder and CEO Meteorbyte Studios Licensed in Software Engineering by the University of Oviedo. In 2016 I started a videogame company, Meteorbyte Studios, which released its first title, Woodpunk, in late 2018. We're currently porting the game to all the most important console platforms. I am a generalist, and I am used to constantly learning new programming languages and working with new technologies. My focus, however, gravitates mostly towards advanced object-oriented and procedural programming - and, more specifically, to distributed, parallel or client-server applications. I have previously worked as an IT teacher for college students, after a 2-year paid internship as a consultant and assistant in the University. I love public speaking (or teaching) and doing PR almost as much as I love coding. I have also been singing and playing in a band for over 10 years.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate of Mobile Game Sourcing at Garena
Juyeon Lee is Senior associate of Mobile Game Sourcing at Garena. Through many major firms, she is specialized on mobile devices and business development.
KB is a founder of FunkyBro, one of the leading digital marketing agencies especially for small and medium sized organizations in Korea. His major career path is focused on investing and developing various start-ups especially in fashion, entertainment and IT industries for many years.
KB will support GTR Top 10 game studios to become much more competitive through social network marketing and advertisements as it is the most effective marketing tool for start-ups. GTR ecosystem will also be more acceptable and connect to a wide spectrum of people who are interested in mobile game industry by efficient marketing activities via social network services such as Facebook or Instagram.
Job Titles:
- Publishing Director
- Kalypso Media
Marcus Behrens is Publishing Director Mobile at Kalypso Media. Kalypso Media is a global independent developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment software
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Creative Director
- Founder and CEO of Rogue Snail
One of the most well-known developer on the Brazilian industry, with 12 years of experience, Mark acted as game designer and producer on titles such as Relic Hunters Legend, Chroma Squad and Dungeonland.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- Social Media Manager
Mateusz has a long background in the esport industry both as a professional gamer and managing several teams for CS:GO, Team Fortress & other games. Prior to joining the online gaming world he had a successful career in the automotive industry as e-commerce specialist with over 5 years of experience working for Renault.
Mateusz offers an excellent understanding of community marketing and game developers' needs therefore he knows how to create great interactions based on shared values. Within GXC he mainly focuses on Social media execution, creative department and project management.
Job Titles:
- Global / Sourcing Manager
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- Senior Business Development Manager
Max has been in the gaming industry for over 10+ years. He started off as a Producer for Deck 13 in 2010, eventually becoming a Senior Producer working on titles like "Lords of the Fallen'' and "The Surge". His final years with the company he served as the Business Development Manager. He then moved to a bigger role with Crunching Koalas as the Head of Publishing.
Max will support the internal portfolio companies at GTR which include over 50+ investments in 28 countries with their needs and growth to make more successful game businesses. He will also be leading the charge in scouting for new talent to add to GTR's yearly Top 10 investments.
Michael Yang is the BD manager of Oasis Games handling business development for its global PC & console game publishing. With deep knowledge of the Chinese market, he has worked on many projects bringing western games into China as well as Chinese games into the west.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Head of Interactive Media
Oscar Clark - Chief Strategy Officer
Job Titles:
- Industrial Engineer
- Program Manager
Oscar Sahun is an industrial engineer and has a master's degree in design and development of video games from the UPC. In 2011 he decided to reorient his professional career towards the video game sector to take advantage of his creativity and artistic skills because games have always been passion. He worked as Game Designer (freelance) and until now he has completely designed five games of different types (platforms, adventure, simulation, runner i brain training). Currently he has created with his friends his own indie videogame studio where he create fun and entertainment for all audiences : we develop games with an added educational, cultural and / or social value.
He is a methodical, organized person, with great planning skills, used to working under pressure, and with great artistic and creative skills.
Job Titles:
- Director of SK Telecom Venture
- Legal Advisor
Patrick Chung is co-founder and was director of SK Telecom Venture which is tributary of USD 100 milion Venture and is subsidiary of leading telecom aompany in Korea. He worked as company lawer of WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, director of Dial Pad Communications (acquired by YAHOO!), and lawer at Kim&Jang, one of bet law firm in Korea.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Business at Chartboost
- VP of Business
Pepe Agell is vice president of Business at Chartboost. Chartboost makes technology for mobile game developers, and works with over 150,000 games and reach over 600 Million unique users per month.
Nicknamed PO, this imagination explorer is a keen gamer. His creative side pushes him to try all kind of new ideas. Despite his methodical thinking and his experience in software programming, his true passion lies in the art of Game Design. His infinite creativity allows him to find a solution to every problem. Furthermore, his IT skills enable an enhanced comprehension of the technological aspect of a game, as well as the ability to adapt to it. A Game Designer able to quickly code and try out his own idea? Yup, it exists! Andrew Linde [ USA ] Founder and CEO AVARIAVS Andrew graduated from Berklee College of Music in the spring of 2007 with a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production. In 2008, he founded Panacea3, a digital reputation management agency. Panacea3 works with clients in many different industries from Fortune 500 corporations to small/medium-sized businesses to help protect and positively affect their digital reputations. In 2010 he became the CEO of No Shame, an indie label based in Brooklyn, NY. In November of 2013 he founded Juncture Media, an IP development company focused on producing and publishing new creative titles in the digital space. Andrew left No Shame in September of 2015 to fully devote his energies to Juncture Media & Panacea3. He currently resides in Connecticut/Brooklyn and tries to snowboard and play video games whenever he can.
Job Titles:
- Director, Business Development
- Member of the Core
- Head of Thailand ] Director, Business Development
- Professional
Pontus "Zlapped" Mähler is a professional gamer and entrepreneur who has won multiple tournaments globally as well as receive multiple awards for his performances over the years. His main focus was always technicalities and how he could improve on a fundamental and mechanical level, which he then applied to all steps of his career.
Spanning more than 15 years, Raj Joshi has worked for Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Activision, Electronic Arts, and Double Helix as an artist, director, and producer. Currently Studio Director at 17 -BIT, an indie game studio in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, Raj is passionate about establishing a legacy that gives back to the community that's helped him to flourish in this challenging field and is proud to be a co founder of the Indies Workshop in Seattle, a co working space for passionate game devs looking to work alongside like -minded collaborators.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- COO, Global
- Head of Singapore ] COO, Global BD
Rick has vast experiences in growing new businesses set out for global expansion. He has over 14+ years of managerial experience in the field of corporate strategy, business development and operations covering a range of business areas in gaming publishing and monetization in addition to other online businesses from leading corporations such as Electronic Arts, Naver, Hangame and Samsung Electronics.
Rick has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He brings to GTR a solid foundation and understanding of the industry and is committed to help grow the GTR ecosystem.
Job Titles:
- Global Head of Developer Partnerships
Robert Brown leads Stride PR, a Los Angeles based video game focused PR agency. While Stride counts some of the biggest companies in the industry as clients, Robert founded the agency to specifically work with startup game developers, so he could help their dreams come true.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- President
- President & Managing Director, APAC
Job Titles:
- Core Advisor
- Game Production, Publishing
Sam Kang was former CEO of Mage of the East, the developer of Chain Chronicle game title. He has over 12 years of experience in game development and project management. Sam has various project management experiences overseeing the development of many famous game titles which include Granado Espada at IMC Games, Dragon Nest at Eyedentity Games (acquired by Shanda Games), and Lineage Eternal at NCSoft.
At GTR, He is currently providing very tangible advices on game startups of GTR in the perspective of GAME PD. He has lots of experience in RPG or mid-core PC and Mobile games.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager, Investment
Sean Kim is highly experience in the game business including marketing, contents producing and monetization with more than twelve years of working in NCSOFT. He started his career as a project manager of casual games such as a shooting, a midcore-rpg and a rhythm action game. After three years of overseas business as well, he is now in charge of investment team leader regarding mobile, console and other platform based game.
Job Titles:
- Business Operation
- Founder of Game Advisor
Stefan Lampinen is the founder of Game Advisor which is a leading Advisory firm in the games/esports/board games market. Stefan has executed worldwide strategies for major corporations such as EA, Microsoft and Warner Bros. His valuable experience and network will be a great addition to Global Top Round in reaching new heights, markets and continuously growing the GTR network.
Sujung Park is a principal attorney at Fidea Law Corporation. Sujung Park has advised entrepreneurs and seed- and early-stage startups, helping them refine business, financing and technology strategies for rapid growth, and providing counseling on day-to-day legal issues that arise in startups. She also has served as outside general counsel for the US subsidiaries of Korean companies and US companies who have a business relationship with Korea.
Sun Cho have over 14 years of success in managing, marketing, and developing business for free to play online video/web browser/mobile gaming products.
Her expertise is in creating partnerships and licensing agreements that grow revenue for client downloadable, web browser, and mobile games.
She is particularly strong in collaborating with internal and external teams of developers and distributors to launch gaming platforms and products worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Core Advisor
- CEO of Supertree
Teddy Dief is a game maker, writer, and producer, now Creative Director at Square Enix Montréal. He developed indie success Hyper Light Drifter, and is a co-founder of LA game collective Glitch City. He produces and hosts a variety of productions such as the Playscape Idle Thumbs podcast, the IndieCade Innovation Awards, and Square Bowl. He has designed for Microsoft Studios and Disney Online Studios, specializing in narrative and systems design. He holds a Masters in Interactive Media from the University of Southern California.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Director
- Business Development Director and Co - Founder of Keybol Games
Thea Morrison is the Business Development Director and Co-Founder of Keybol Games. She develops various partnerships, whether it be with service providers, publishers, investors, or even major platform companies. Her strong belief in Keybol and personal values synergise to make a compelling combination that she brings to every meeting, pitch or event, helping take the company further and open new possibilities. Having an introspective personality, Thea likes to constantly reflect and evaluate her personal and professional goals, making sure that every action aligns with what she and her team are striving to achieve. In her free time, Thea loves to read books ranging from topics such as business, psychology, philosophy and tech/founder biographies.
Thorsten Unger is a serial entrepeneur and an expert in digital media. He is the founder of Wegesrand, a consulting company focusing on digital innovation.
As executive director of the association of the German gaming industry GAME, he campaigns for the industries' interests with reference to the meaning of games in an economic, social, political and cultural context. He also founded Zone 2 Connect, one of the leading providers of serious games and gamification in Germany.
At Target Games he is responsible for business and strategy development. Thorsten Unger is consulting the German government, institutions and companies as well.
He is a key-note speaker for games-related topics and has published contributions inseveral books. Together with his long-time companion André Bernhardt he founded Target Games.
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- Finance Manager
- Member of the Core
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- Business Development Manager
- CHINA Business Development Manager
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- Vice President, Global Head of Developer Relations
Victor has 8 years of experience in the game industry. His primary focus is on business and product development, market research, and developer relations. He acquired an in-depth knowledge of the mobile ecosystem and competitive landscape while working with publishers, developers and handset manufacturers. He also advises game developers on improving games mechanics, interfaces and monetization strategies. Several projects he participated in received various awards from local game conferences, as well as honored by nominations from Intel, Google and Apple.
Playful and energetic, Vincent is always looking for new ways to explore new possibilities and excel. His time working at Frima Studio on many video game projects gave him the opportunity to acquire loads of expertise in programming. Now, he studies to deepen his technical and business skills and to obtain a bachelor's degree. Both at work and at school, his energy and creativity constantly reward him with success. A businessman and a programmer in the same body… Now that's quite a combo! Zac Alcampo - Canada, Thailand Business & Networks Support A passionate gamer, Zac has more than 13 years of experience in the industry, starting in Canada, where he designed a number of AAA titles for established game publishers Microsoft and Activision. Since relocating to Thailand and taking the helm at Sandbox Global, he has steered the studio to its current position as a region leader, not only in casual and hyper casual games but bringing the gaming community together.
Job Titles:
- President
- President and Founder of MOYO Games
Wendy is a president and founder of MOYO Games in Shanghai which has established focusing on mobile game publishing of Korean game in China. Prior to MOYO, she had worked for Nexon China's planning and strategy, marketing, global IR for five years. She has a great insight in Chinese game industry since she had worked with whole product divisions of the company like Kartrider, Maplestory, Mabinogi, etc. for more that five years.
Yeonjeong Chae is a lawyer in the corporate and M&A practice at Sehan Law. She represents start-up companies and various growth companies, and provides counsel on general corporate matters. YJ also represents companies in cross-border transactions and participates in various Merger & Acquisitions transactions where she conducted due diligence and drafted various share purchase agreements, investment agreements.
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- Co - Founder
- Creative Director
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- CEO
- Founder
- Founder of MonsterScope Studios
Zamfir is the Founder of MonsterScope Studios - A game development studio focusing on bringing epic action games to mobile phones. He had taken an interest in technology from a young age and is always looking to push the boundaries of innovation in the game industry. He taught himself coding at 17 then went on to study duel qualifications in Business and Marketing which gave him the tools to start his company and navigate it to multiple successes.