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BizStone

Biz STONE

Twitter
Co-founder

Biz STONE

Co-founder, Twitter

BIZ STONE has been named Nerd of the Year by GQ, one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME magazine, Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. Magazine, one of Vanity Fair’s Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age, and was honored with the International Center for Journalists' first Innovation Award.

Stone, 38, is best known for over a decade of developing collaborative web systems freely accessed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. As a progenitor of the early social web, Biz became an Internet entrepreneur in 1999 and went on to work for Google in its formative years. Later, Stone co-founded Twitter which launched in 2006.

In June of 2011 with his long time collaborators Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, Stone co-founded The Obvious Corporation to focus on building systems that help people work together to improve the world. In addition to deploying time and resources to outside projects, Stone works with the Obvious team on their main effort, a publishing platform called Medium.

An adamant believer that when we help others, we also help ourselves, Stone supports a new way of doing business with a higher level of ambition, and a better, more altruistic way to measure success. Beyond immediate needs, Stone advocates selflessness; insisting we follow this path in order to deliver deeper meaning in our work and in so doing, place value before profit.

Stone holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Babson College, membership in the Senior Common Room at Exeter College, Oxford, is an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley Haas, and an Associate Fellow at Said College, Oxford. Stone has debated at Oxford Union and won on whether or not entrepreneurs can affect positive change with regard to the world's biggest problems.

Together with his wife, Stone operates The Biz and Livia Stone Foundation supporting education and conservation. Stone serves on the advisory board of Donors Choose—an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help both teachers and students in need. Biz lives in Marin County, California with his wife Livia and son Jacob.
TripHawkins

Trip HAWKINS

Digital Chocolate
Founder of Electronic Arts, CEO

Trip HAWKINS

Founder of Electronic Arts, CEO, Digital Chocolate

Trip Hawkins is a Hall of Fame game industry leader who founded and built Electronic Arts and played a key role in defining the PC industry. Co-Founder and CEO of If You Can Company, a publisher of educational games, he also now advises game and tech companies including Kixeye, NativeX and Extreme Reality 3D. He has spent his entire career in new media, first as an executive that pioneered the PC industry along with Apple’s founders at a time when the entire company had only 25 office workers.

He founded EA in 1982, introduced many fundamental strategies and business practices to the game industry and was the creative and production force behind EA Sports. He later founded 3DO, a pioneering digital media platform; and Digital Chocolate where he led the company to deliver more than 200 million mobile app downloads and billions of game sessions. He developed and produced several games with software artists that are now in various halls of fame, and was himself the first and only business executive named to the Hall of Fame by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
LauraYecies

Laura YECIES

SugarSync
Consulting CEO, Catch, CEO

Laura YECIES

Consulting CEO, Catch, CEO, SugarSync

Laura is a consumer software and Internet services industry veteran with two decades of experience leading top consumer brands such as ZoneAlarm, Yahoo and Netscape.

Yecies joined SugarSync in Q4 2008 to expand the company and initiate an aggressive business and product growth phase. Most recently, Yecies was General Manager of the ZoneAlarm consumer and small business division at Check Point Software, responsible for all facets of business development, marketing, sales, and product. She led key initiatives to drive ZoneAlarm's technology vision and significantly increase brand awareness.

Previously, at Yahoo, Yecies served as Global General Manager of the Yahoo Mail division. Earlier, Yecies was Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL where she was responsible for the development of Netscape 7.0 and the launch of the Netscape browser in 23 languages. Prior to Netscape, she led Latin American sales at Informix Software Corp. in Latin America. Additionally, Yecies served as Director of Marketing Programs for the Asia Pacific Latin America region at Gupta Corporation.

Earlier in her career Yecies worked as an international risk analyst at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation – a division of the Agency for International Development and as a lecturer in International Marketing at Santa Clara University.

Yecies received her M.B.A. from Harvard, plus an M.S.F.S. from Georgetown School of Foreign Service where she graduated with honors in International Business Diplomacy. She received her A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Government from Dartmouth and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.She has studied abroad at the London School of Economics and with Dartmouth in Blois, France. Yecies serves on the Board of several community non-profit organizations and has worked as a volunteer medical translator in Guatemala. She has lived in Brazil, France and England, is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French and loves travelling the world as much as possible with her husband and four children.
PeterSondergaard

Peter SONDERGAARD

Gartner
Senior Vice President, Research

Peter SONDERGAARD

Senior Vice President, Research, Gartner

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president, Research, is responsible for the leadership and strategic direction of more than 730 Gartner analysts, ensuring that the organization's priorities align directly with those of clients located in 80 countries.

Sondergaard is a distinguished analyst and a highly respected research leader with more than 30 years experience in the information technology industry. He joined Gartner in 1989 as a program director for company’s personal computing research area, specializing in the desktop computing issues of European users. Over the course of the next 21years at Gartner, Sondergaard held positions of increasing seniority within the Research organization, including hardware and systems sector vice president and general manager for Research, EMEA. Prior to his current role, Sondergaard was head of research for the technology and services sector.

Sondergaard is frequently quoted in the world’s most influential business and technology media outlets representing Gartner thought-leadership on a broad range of topics and a regular keynote speaker at leading industry events worldwide.

Prior to joining Gartner, Sondergaard was research director at IDC in Europe and, formerly, responsible for the integration of PCs and data at Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS).

Sondergaard holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
BrianStevens

Brian STEVENS

Red Hat
CTO

Brian STEVENS

CTO, Red Hat

Brian Stevens joined Red Hat's senior management team in 2001 and has been critical to leading the company's entrance into the enterprise. As CTO and Vice President, Worldwide Engineering, Stevens has responsibility for Red Hat® engineering globally, encompassing Linux®, virtualization, middleware, storage and cloud computing.

Stevens began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation where he was a developer on the first commercial release of the X Window System. During his 14 years at Digital, he became a senior member of technical staff and was responsible for the architecture and development of the UNIX and clustering product lines.

Stevens earned a master's degree in computer systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire. He currently serves on the boards of DataGravity and Pentaho.
KoichiroTsujino

Koichiro TSUJINO

Alex Corporation
VAIO Developer, Sony, former president of Google Japan, Founder

Koichiro TSUJINO

Founder Alex Corporation, VAIO developer, Sony, former president of Google Japan

Born in 1957 in Fukuoka Prefecture. Graduated from Keio University’s Graduate School of Engineering in 1984 and entered Sony Corporation in the same year. Through the company’s overseas study program, went to the United States to study at California Institute of Technology’s Department of Electrical Engineering. Developed such Sony hit products as the “VAIO” personal computer, the “Sugoroku” HDD DVD recorder, the “CoCoon” television channel server and other major products.

After resigning from Sony in March 2006, joined Google in 2007 and was appointed president of Google Japan in January 2009. Played a key role in Google’s growth in the Japanese market. Resigned in April 2010 to establish ALEX Corporation with like-minded members. Currently serving as representative director, president and CEO of ALEX Corporation. Also, an outside board member of KLab Inc. and AOI Pro. Inc. Visiting professor of the Fuculty of Commerce, Waseda University. Wrote the book, Everything Google Needed I Learned at Sony (Shinchosha, November 20, 2010).
AdeMcCormack

Ade MCCORMACK

The Financial Times
Advisor, writer and speaker on the digital economy.

Ade MCCORMACK

Advisor, writer and speaker on the digital economy, Financial Times

He is the author of 4 books including 'The e-Skills Manifesto - A Call to Arms' commissioned by the European Commission to influence policy in respect of digital jobs. Ade works with the world's leading technology, staffing and end user companies in respect of how the world is changing in terms of work, workers and leadership. He has an opinion column in the Financial Times advising business leaders on digital economy matters. Similarly he has an opinion column with CIO magazine. Ade has lectured on digital leadership at MIT Sloan School of Management and has worked in over 20 countries.
RachidSefrioui

Rachid SEFRIOUI

Finaventures
Managing Director

Rachid SEFRIOUI

Managing Director, Finaventures

Rachid Sefrioui is the Managing Director of Finaventures, a venture capital firm he founded in 1999. In the last 20 years, he has backed over 30 startups and growth companies that collectively grew sales to over $450 million, among which he was the Founding CEO of an 18-company integration to create a Regional Technology leader.

He's earned his stripes early in his career by working for McKinsey & Co and for financial houses such as Bowco Investment and Wafatrust Credit Agricole Indosuez. He earned a degree in management & operations research from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
StavrosIsaiadis

Stavros ISAIADIS

America Bank of Meryll Lynch
AVP Technology

Stavros ISAIADIS

AVP Technology, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Since early 2011 Stavros has been responsible for the architecture and development of electronic trading applications for the Equities and Portfolio Trading business of Merrill Lynch in London, including portfolio optimization, unwinding engines, and algorithmic portfolio trading. Previously, he was a Senior Research Engineer with Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, working in the areas of cloud integration and management, as well as cloud application modeling and development methodologies.

Stavros has a strong academic record including a PhD in distributed systems architecture followed by extensive work on European projects on grid systems design, data modeling, and dependability. As a research fellow he was one of the pioneers in dynamic mobile resource pooling, formulating and prototyping ideas widely used in the context of cloud and social computing today. He is a frequent participant in conferences and expert panels; has authored and presented many peer-reviewed papers; and is involved in cloud standardization efforts where he chairs an OASIS technical committee.
NeiraJones

Neira JONES

CSCSS
Chairman, Cybercrime Advisory Board

Neira JONES

Chairman, Cybercrime Advisory Board, The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science

With more than 20 years in financial services, Neira has directed many global change programmes, launched new products/services & managed process reengineering practices. She believes in change through innovation, team work & collaborative partnerships. She enjoys business turnaround initiatives & anything compelling in the digital space. Formerly Director of Payment Security & Fraud at Barclaycard, she was responsible for security compliance & risk management of circa 100K customers & 3rd parties, incl. PCI DSS as well as developing innovative fraud offerings. It has been her mission to demystify information security & she is regularly invited to speak to various audiences across industries & regions. She is the proud recipient of the Acquiring Personality of the Year 2013 Award from Merchant Payments Ecosystem, SC Magazine Information Security Person of the Year Award 2012, was inducted to the Infosecurity Europe 2011 Hall of Fame and voted to the Top 10 Most Influential People in Information Security by SC Magazine & ISC2 in 2010. She was the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors for 4 years until May 2013, has been appointed Chairman, Cybercrime Advisory Board for the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science and sits on various other advisory boards.
AhmedZubair

Ahmed ZUBAIR

Emirates Islamic Bank
VP, Head of IT

Ahmed ZUBAIR

VP, Head of IT, Emirates Islamic Bank

The speaker has led and implemented several governance and change management initiatives in various organizations. In addition to various hands-on achievements, have also participated in the authoring of PMI's Program and Portfolio Management standards. Zubair Ahmed‘s professional expertise includes IT management, Business – IT transformation, IT architecture and quality management including the business process (re)engineering and quality assurance / control.

He has been associated with the Financial Services Industry for over 21 years. In the recent past he has been involved in leading and executing strategies to synergize people, process and technology to create higher organizational value. Excels in enterprise consolidation projects, from technology, people and process perspectives and in showcasing IT's higher value to business. Being an ardent speaker, Zubair has featured in numerous global events, authoring many papers including the book “Power To Kids – Apply Quality & Management principles to Parenting”.
BarryMaher

Barry MAHER

Barry Maher & Associates
Motivational Speaker

Barry MAHER

Motivational Speaker, Barry Maher & Associates

Today Barry Maher is in demand for business audiences of all types. And whether as a speaker or a consultant, he’s hired to get results: to improve productivity and attitude and ultimately, the bottom line.

Those clients include organizations like ABC, the American Management Association, AT&T, Berkshire Hathaway, Canon, Cessna, Deloitte, Fox Cable Television, Fuji, Hewlett-Packard, Infiniti, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, the National Lottery of Ireland, the U.S. Government, Verizon and Wells Fargo.

Barry’s is the author of Filling the Glass, which has been honored as “[One of] The Seven Essential Popular Business Books.” His other books include No Lie: Truth Is the Ultimate Sales Tool, the Prentice Hall Marketing Yearbook, and strangely enough, the fantasy cult classic, Legend.
You may have seen Barry Maher on such international television outlets as CNBC, CBS or NBC. And he’s frequently featured in publications that range from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the London Times to—what he insists is his personal favorite—Funeral Services Insider.
ShannonMaher

Shannon MAHER

Google
Engineering Director

Shannon MAHER

Engineering Director, Google

Shannon Maher has spent more than 30 years in the technology world, building and leading world-class engineering teams for major corporations and innovative startups across the globe. Shannon was most recently at Google, where he had world-wide responsibility for all Google mobile application development, and also served as Site Director/Engineering Director in London, Munich, Waterloo (Canada), Zurich and Moscow. He also led the Display Ads teams for Google in Seattle and Kirkland (WA, USA), launching next generation technologies for ads matching (DSP), demographic
inference, and world-wide media panels. Mr Maher left Google after 7 ½ years in Feb 2013.

Prior to Google Shannon’s positions included VP at AOL Mobile launching new mobile technologies, and GM of Wireless Services. In the startup world, his experience includes leading the engineering teams as SrVP at Tegic Communications (T9 text input) and as VP/Engineering at Optimas orporation, as well as Research Director at Sierra Geophysics (INC 500 in the 1980s). He has been through three acquisitions of his companies and his career has crossed technical domains including not only mobile and ads, but also signal processing, geophysical inversion, image analysis and machine vision, embedded software, and even particle detection for high energy physics experimentation at FermiLab.

Mr Maher received his BS in EE/CS at MIT, an MS in Geophysics at the University of Colorado, and a Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Washington. He is proudest, though, of his family, which includes his wife Cindy and daughters Erin (at Yale University) and Jamie (at Vassar College).
OlivierRoyant

Olivier ROYANT

Paris Match
Editor in Chief

Olivier ROYANT

Editor in Chief, Paris Match

Born in Paris in 1962, Olivier Royant is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and holds an MBA from New York’s Columbia University. He began his journalistic career at the Paris-based radio station Radio Gilda in 1982 before becoming a staff reporter at Paris Match in 1985, and a senior writer in 1986. In 1987, he was named permanent correspondant to the United States where he spent 10 years in New York covering all aspects of American society. In 1998, he returned to Paris to become the magazine’s Executive Editor.

He was co-producer of « Match Magazine », a monthly news magazine hosted by Alain Genestar, and was co-author of « September 11, 2001, the War, an investigation on the attack of humanity » (Filipacchi Books). Since his nomination as Editor-in-Chief in July, 2006, Paris Match has twice received the prestigious French Magazine of the Year award, in 2008 and 2012.
PepeModer

Pepe MODER

Pirelli
Global Director for the Digital Marketing & Communication

Pepe MODER

Global Director for the Digital Marketing & Communication, Pirelli

With a degree in business administration, Pepe Moder has begun working in the marketing at I.net. His next step was in the role of Product Manager of UUNET(WorldCom group IBD) and later Mktg Partner in strategic consulting for the digital world. In the same period he published “Web Marketing for Small and Medium Enterprises” and “Internet Startup”, two books with Apogeo.

In Genialpoint (RAS Group) Pepe took care of Digital Business Development to then play the role of New Media Manager for Internet communication and institutional web sites in Ras and for the entire Allianz Group in Italy. in 2008 he joined Barilla where he remained until 2012 as the Head of Digital Marketing & Communication Group.

Since April 2012 he entered in Pirelli Tyre covering the position of Global Director for the Digital Marketing & Communication. He is also a lecturer in digital communication and marketing at the Bocconi University.
DanSiroker

Dan SIROKER

Optimizely
Co-founder & CEO, Former Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign

Dan SIROKER

Co-Founder & CEO, Optimizely, Former Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign

Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder & CEO of Optimizely, a dramatically easier way to A/B test your website. The inspiration for Optimizely came from Dan's experience as the Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign and Deputy New Media Director for the Presidential Transition. Before Optimizely, Dan co-founded an online math game for kids called CarrotSticks. He was formerly a Product Manager for Google Chrome and AdWords. Dan graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
JarnoVanhatapio

Jarno VANHATAPIO

Nelly.com
Founder

Jarno VANHATAPIO

Founder, Nelly.com

Jarno Vanhatapio, founder of Nelly.com
Former construction worker Jarno Vanhatapio founded Nelly.com (part of CDON group) in his livingroom 2003. Nelly.com is one of the most exciting and fastest growing fashion online shops in Europe and has grown from 2 to 90 million euro in turnover in the last 5 years. With over 100 million hits 2012. Jarno stepped down from the CEO position 2007, and has worked as an senior advisor and board member until march 2013 when he left the company he founded. Jarno is one of the most booked speaker in the nordics. He speaks about; E-commerce, marketing, social and viral media. 2012 he was rewarded with the finest trade award from the Swedish chamber of commerce for the pioneering work that made Nelly.com the #1 online fashion destination in the nordics.

In this session we will hear, Jarno Vanhatapio, about some of the successful tactics and some of the less successful tactics that they have employed during their journey with Nelly.com. He will also reviel details about his new start up and how he thinks e-commerce will develop in the next upcoming years, and talk about trends in big scale e-commerce.
LiamBoogar

Liam BOOGAR

Rude Baguette
Co-founder

Liam BOOGAR

Co-founder, Rude Baguette

Co-founder of the Rude Baguette - France's Startup Blog - Liam Boogar moved to France in 2010 after growing up in the Silicon Valley. , often asking the hard-hitting questions that European bloggers are not yet used to asking. In conferences, he provides an outside, yet educated opinion on key European issues, as well as key insights on global trends that prevail in Europe.
Since its launch in 2011, the Rude Baguette has quickly become a reference point for anyone interested in the French tech market.

05/2012: Web2Day. Nantes, FR - Moderated a panel with Americans discussing key issues in Europe
09/2012: The Pirate Summit. Cologne, DE - Moderated a panel with Venture Capitalists from Mangrove and two German VC Funds
10/2012: General Assembly. London, UK - Gave a 45 minute talk about the Paris Startup Ecosystem, and how London startups could take advantage of Paris.
01/2013: General Assembly. Berlin, DE - Gave a 45 minute talk about the Paris Startup Ecosystem, and how London startups could take advantage of Paris.
03/2013: London Web Summit. London, UK - Siting on a panel as a judge for the LWS Startup Competition
03/2013: eDeals Summit. London, UK - Moderating a panel with founders of French eDeals/eCouponing startups
04/2013 (to come). Failcon. Zurich, CH - Giving a talk called "Failure by Omission"
05/2013 (to come). Web2Day. Nantes, FR - Speaking & MC-ing the entire English-language portion of the event (~50% of talks over two days)
06/2013 (to come). ICT Conference. Luxembourg - Speaking/Moderating/MC-ing at the conference.
EduardoMendez Polo

Eduardo MENDEZ POLO

Telefonica Spain
IT Cloud & Low-Cost

Eduardo MENDEZ POLO

IT Cloud & Low-Cost, Telefonica

Eduardo Mendez has been working for Telefonica Spain for the last 14 years, where he has deployed a variety of activities related to infrastructure and services management, since the very early wap and sms services to the most recent video and social networking ones. He has built and managed a diversity of technology scenarios from the proprietary dedicated servers through utility computing to the present cloud environments. He recently joined the internal IT department to implement these best practices intensively across the entire IT infrastructure.
GaryKneip

Gary KNEIP

Secure IT
CEO & Chairman, co-founder

Gary KNEIP

CEO & Chairman, co-founder, Secure IT

After teaching for a few years, Gary Kneip began managing businesses and people. In 1985, he started up Digital Equipment Luxembourg, which he left in 1989 to manage the Internal Organisation and ICT divisions at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (now Dexia). In 1993, he founded TECSYS (then one of the largest system integrators in Luxembourg) and was the CEO and Chairman. In 2000, TECSYS acquired another ICT company and Gary Kneip was appointed CEO and Chairman of the merged structure (primesphere). He left this function at the end of 2003 to start up SecureIT.

Gary Kneip has also been heavily involved in Luxembourg’s employers (lobby) organisations for over 15 years, which have allowed him to gain extensive insight into the political and economical mechanics driving Luxembourg’s society.

Gary is President of the national Economic & Social Council as well as President of Luxembourg’s Confederation of Commerce Federations representing the Services sector.

He is the founder and first President and Board member of Luxembourg’s association of ICT professionals (APSI); founding Board member of the Alternative Telecom Operators’ association (OPAL); Board member of Luxembourg’s employers’ mutual social insurance and of Luxembourg’s social security investment fund; President of Luxembourg’s employers’ head organisation’s CSR task force; former President of Luxembourg’s Young Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (FJD).

Gary Kneip was born in Luxembourg in 1955. He speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, English and Flemish fluently.
RaphaelGoumot

Raphael GOUMOT

CREAgile
Founder

Raphael GOUMOT

Founder, CREAgile

Raphael has 20 years of experience in the strategic design and operational management of new products and services for connected industries, telecommunications, mobile internet, entertainment and games. His track record includes setting up and managing teams to deliver in high pressurized, international and multicultural environments : digital content delivery platforms, location-based services and mobile games. He founded CREAgile in 2012, to bind start-ups models and corporate ventures levers, consulting and training on innovation strategies and agile management. He graduated from ESCP Europe, CNAM and University of Paris-Dauphine, is certified Scrum and Innovation Games, also giving lectures in French Universities on digital marketing and innovation management.
BorisPfeiffer

Boris PFEIFFER

Kabam Europe
Managing Director

Boris PFEIFFER

Managing Director, Kabam Europe

Boris Pfeiffer has set up Kabam’s European operations in Luxembourg in 2011 and grew Kabam Europe to 60 people, helping the company to grow to one of the leading publishers of free to play games on iOS, Android and the web.
He has over 13 years of successful international leadership experience in sales, professional services, operations, product development and marketing in the Internet and software industry.
He founded and headed Innoserv GmbH, Ltd. and Inc. from 1995 to 1998.
After having worked for several companies including NetObjects Inc. and NXN Software AG, he joined Tickle Europe GmbH, a Monster Worldwide Inc. company, and managed Europe's operations.
From 2007 until 2010, he served as Monster.com's Vice-President and General Manager for Internet Advertising in Europe. Afterwards, he held the same positions at the incubator Ooga Labs in San Francisco who created and sold Wonderhill Inc. to Kabam.
Boris Pfeiffer is the author of Facebook Fan Pages, published in 2011.
RenaudVisage

Renaud VISAGE

Eventbrite
Co-Founder & CTO

Renaud VISAGE

Co-Founder & CTO, Eventbrite

Renaud is the founding technical architect of Eventbrite and is responsible for the internationalization of our platform.
Renaud started his career as an environmental consultant with Geomatrix Consultants where he designed and managed large-scale environmental cleanups. Fascinated by the Internet, Renaud joined, as the Director of Engineering, Internet photo-sharing pioneer, Zing Networks which was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and later acquired by Sony ImageStation.
Renaud is also an accomplished architectural and travel photographer. His work is represented by various stock photo agencies around the world like Getty Images, Age Fotostock or Alamy. His work has been used in magazines, books, movies, brochures and advertisements in more than 40 countries. A portfolio of his work can be seen on his portfolio web site.
Renaud has a Master of Engineering from Cornell University and from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France).
Volker Hirsch

Volker HIRSCH

BlackBerry
Global Head of Business Development - Games

Volker HIRSCH

Global Head of Business Development - Games, BlackBerry

Volker is the Global Head of Business Development – Games for BlackBerry after having sold the mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop, which now boasts more than 300m users, where he was the Chief Strategy Officer. He is also a co-founder and non-executive director of Blue Beck, a game studio.

A lawyer by education, Volker has worked in mobile entertainment since 1999. He worked with music artists like Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, Eve, Nile Rodgers and Duran Duran on the world’s first mobile artist services and has been in the mobile games sector almost from its start with Mforma/Hands-On Mobile and Connect2Media (which he co-founded) where he oversaw licensing and corporate development and worked with Marvel, Hasbro, Activision, LEGO, BMW, Konami, the World Poker Tour, Universal, Viacom, and many developers along the way.

Volker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an EMEA Board Member of MEF and a Governor of the Fallibroome Academy, and “outstanding” (OFSTED) comprehensive school. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for TEDx Youth @ Manchester and a co-founder of Mobile Monday Manchester. He tweets @vhirsch.
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