Sebastian Kriese

Building relationships with other gaming companies, advisors and other relevant corporate development partners. Screening the gaming market for potential acq-hires, partners and investment opportunities and keeping Wooga up-to-date regarding key players, developments and trends. Wooga representative at gaming conferences around the world.

- Headed GameDuell’s first social platform off Facebook - Developed and executed new product strategies - Modelled business cases for all social platforms - Translated business goals into executable tactics for development teams - Implemented a new development approach for developing Facebook games and restructured existing teams - Produced a sequel of GameDuell’s most successful title “Bubble Speed” and doubled the revenue of the game in under 4 months

Successfully developed VZnet to become the biggest gaming network in Germany (with more than 5.5M monthly active gamers). Account manager for international social gaming companies (Playdom, Wooga, Happy Elements, Digital Chocolate etc.). Responsible for the commercial launch of the OpenSocial platform. Designed and established a new payment and controlling lifecycle for game revenues.

Sales representative to build new incremental software business for dedicated key accounts (Germany). Developing strong relationships with decision makers to increase revenues and to generate new cross-selling opportunities. Responsible for managing and supporting all account related needs.

Thesis: "Considerations for Making SOA Compliant Business Process Components Off-line Available" Software development for mobile devices. Development of a speech recognition solution for employees of a care home. Research for RFID related software development and extensive RFID handheld testing.