Volker Hirsch

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Volker
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Hirsch
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Volker has been at the forefront of mobile and digital media for nearly a decade. He was General Counsel and Head of iSmartMoney at mobile applications incubator iWorld where, in 2002, he helped conceive the world’s first mobile artist services for the likes of Britney Spears, Eve and Duran Duran. He then helped Mforma (now known as Hands-On Mobile) solidify their position in Europe (through M&A and organic growth) and oversaw their licensing and business development business outside the US and China with some landmark licenses such as Marvel, Hasbro, Activision (Call of Duty, True Crime, Guitar Hero), LEGO, BMW, Konami, WPT, etc) as well as 250+ distributor deals including tier-1 operators all over the world. In 2008, he co-led the MBO of the business from its US holding company, which included raising capital and acquiring a mobile games aggregator. Recently, he co-founded the Blue Beck, a new social games creator and publisher focusing to bring back true sociality to electronic games. It publishes to the iPhone, Android, Symbian, and Blackberry, Facebook & emerging handheld digital platforms. He is also a strategy advisor to social infrastructure software specialists Scoreloop.

His initial background is in law, specifically on corporate governance, cross-border M&A, VC as well as media & telecoms. He commenced his career with leading law firms in Brussels and Hamburg and is a member of the German bar in good standing.

Volker has active board and company secretarial experience in Germany, the UK, the US, Israel and Malta.

He is also a regular speaker and panelist on mobile telecoms & mobile entertainment (Mobile World Congress, CTIA, Games Convention, MEM, Droidcon, Mobile 2.0, Ericsson Mobility World, Mobile Gambling Summit, PICNIC, etc) and the (co-) author and contributor of various books and articles on mobile entertainment, investment, corporate and merger control affairs.

He maintains his blog at http://vhirsch.com/blog and tweets @vhirsch.
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mobile, telecoms, media, digital content, M&A, (mergers & acquisitions), joint ventures, strategic partnerships, licensing, distribution, corporate development, business development, channel management, cross-border transactions, legal, corporate, corporate governance, company secretary, games, mobile games, mobile entertainment, mobile lifestyle, products, mobile video, social networks, UGC, cross-media, convergence

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