Volker is the Global Head of Business Development – Games for Research In Motion (BlackBerry) where he arrived via the acquisition of mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop where he was Chief Strategy Officer. He is also a co-founder of Blue Beck, a game and app development studio.
Volker has been in mobile since 1999. He worked with music artists like Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg 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, as well as with game developers like Rovio, Vivid Games or Machineworks North-West along the way. He also struck more than 200 distribution deals with carriers and OEM around the world.
Volker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He regular speaks at top mobile and technology conferences around the world (incl. Mobile World Congress, CTIA, Oxford University, SXSW, MIP TV, etc.) and is a co-organiser of TEDx Youth @ Manchester, a co-founder of Mobile Monday Manchester and a Governor of the Fallibroome Academy. He blogs at http://vhirsch.com/blog and tweets @vhirsch.
