Volker Hirsch
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Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Volker Hirsch
- Current 3 years and 9 months, since Sep 2022
Chief Commercial Officer
Medicines Discovery Catapult
- Current 7 years and 9 months, since Sep 2018
Partner, now Venture Partner
Amadeus Capital
- Current 13 years, since Jun 2013
Angel Investor
Various
- Current 16 years and 10 months, since Aug 2009
Co-Founder & Director
Blue Beck Limited
Blue Beck is a developer and publisher of games and apps across smart phone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone) and digital online and handheld platforms.
- 12 years and 10 months, Nov 2010 - Aug 2023
Governor
The Fallibroome Academy
- 7 years and 4 months, Jan 2015 - Apr 2022
Chairman & Investor
Bibblio Learning (acquired by Ex.Co)
- 3 years and 5 months, Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Board Member & Investor
Recurrence, Inc.
- 5 years and 1 month, Sep 2013 - Sep 2018
Venture Partner
Emerge Education
Emerge is an accelerator born out of Oxford University's Said Business School focussing on education technology. As a Venture Partner, I work with start-ups in the cohort to make their companies better, faster, stronger. Emerge's partners include world-leading institutions, including the University of Oxford and Eton College.
- 3 years and 4 months, Sep 2013 - Dec 2016
Chairman
Cognisess
Cognisess provides solutions helping talent recognition and nurturing, allowing schools as well as companies to identify, nurture and develop talent in the best way possible, using cognitive sciences and emotional intelligence.
- 1 year and 8 months, Feb 2012 - Sep 2013
EMEA Board Member
MEF - Mobile Ecosystem Forum
- 2 years and 4 months, Jun 2011 - Sep 2013
Director, Global Head of Business Development - Games
BlackBerry / Research In Motion
Headed the business development efforts for BlackBerry's games vertical globally. Helped deliver 20,000+ games at launch of BlackBerry 10 with many AAA-publishers present and on board (e.g. EA, Rovio, Disney, SEGA, Zeptolab, Halfbrick, etc.). Helped craft the ecosystem and development environment (e.g. through providing Unity support) to make it easy for developers to onboard and unleash the platform's power in games.
- 1 year and 8 months, Nov 2009 - Jun 2011
Chief Strategy Officer
Scoreloop (sold to Research In Motion)
Volker was retained as a Strategy Advisor and then brought fully on board as CSO. He is responsible for the company's corporate strategy and oversees worldwide business development. He also acts as the company's General Counsel.
- 11 months, Aug 2008 - Jun 2009
Co-Founder, Board Member, EVP Corporate Development & General Counsel
Connect 2 Media
Connect 2 Media is a global publisher of games for mobile, iPhone and PC with offices in Manchester, Madrid, Krakow, Tel Aviv, Paris and Bangkok. Volker was key to the team that raised $9m from Acuity Capital as well as to the buy-out of the business of Hands-On Mobile EMEA, SE Asia & Latin America and the acquisitions of Connect 2 Play and Rayfusion (www.rayfusion.com). Volker was also responsible to bolster the licensing portfolio, signing 40+ titles and brands inside 6 months.
- 3 years and 9 months, Dec 2004 - Aug 2008
Vice-President, Corporate & Legal Affairs
Mforma / Hands-On Mobile
- 2 years, Aug 2003 - Jul 2005
Board Member
German-Maltese Chamber of Commerce
- 2 years and 4 months, Apr 2003 - Jul 2005
Owner & MD
Cervus Consulting Ltd
- 2 years and 5 months, Nov 2000 - Mar 2003
General Counsel & Head of iSmartMoney
iWorld Group
- 5 years and 9 months, Feb 1995 - Oct 2000
Rechtsanwalt
Luther & Partner, Hamburg
Retained as an under-grad associate ("freier Mitarbeiter"), then hired as attorney ("Rechtsanwalt") following my graduation.
- 11 months, Feb 1994 - Dec 1994
Undergraduate Associate
Deringer Tessin Hermann & Sedemund (now: Freshfields)
Ausbildung von Volker Hirsch
- 1 month, May 2003 - May 2003
International Commercial Arbitration
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- 1 year and 5 months, Mar 1997 - Jul 1998
European Integration & International Economic Relations
Europa Kolleg Hamburg
European law, audiovisual media, telecommunications
- 2 years, Oct 1994 - Sep 1996
Law
Universitaet Hamburg
Corporate, European, Media
- 3 years and 7 months, Apr 1991 - Oct 1994
Law
Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen
Corporate, European, Competition, Arbitration
Sprachen
German
C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)
English
C1 (Fließend)
French
A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)
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