Career Hans Ippisch
CURRENT POSITIONS
CEO and Founder HAIP UG, Nuremberg
Creating content for any platform, any device, any target group
Managing Director Kabuto Deutschland UG, Nuremberg
Founder of CSAI: Campus für Spiele, Audio und Interactive Media
Executive Director BBG Entertainment, Munich
Producer of Quiz with Fritz, Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary, Einstein Brain Trainer a.o.
Professor Link Campus University, Rome
Lecturer for Innovative Technologies: Game Publishing
PREVIOUS STATIONS
HOLORIDE (AUDI AG SUBSIDIARY)
Responsible for the development of the complete launch portfolio of holoride (including scouting, QA, pitching and creating new IPs) within 7 months (Launch: November 2, 2022) and the content strategy including immersive games, edutainment, casual experiences, news-streaming, productivity and wellbeing. Supervising the VR content development for holoride, the world´s first platform for motion- and location-aware in-vehicle experiences.
INTELLIVISION (FORMER MATTEL SUBSIDIARY)
Member of the global executive team developing the "Intellivision Amico"/ "Amico Home" family entertainment : design, hardware, software. Independent development of the European division (sales and marketing) and creation of independent subsidiary from scratch.
COMPUTEC MEDIA GROUP
Digitalization & transformation of a classic print publisher to Europe´s leading Print-, Online- & Event-Media-Company for Gaming, IT and CE with a reach of 10 mio. readers (Online, Print), 200 employees at five locations (Fuerth, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne); growth of digital revenues share from 8% in 2009 to 50% in 2018, expansion online reach from 1 million to 10 million Unique Users, creating Computec´s 2025 business units: game server, teamspeak, e-commerce, job portal, corporate publishing. As Managing Director of Aruba Events he was co-founder of "devcom", Europe´s biggest game developer conference
EDUCATION
Oxford Saïd Business School,
Oxford: Oxford High Performance Leadership Programme
Boston Business School, Stuttgart: Personality-Training für Executives
INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau, France: Blue Ocean Strategy Programme
Intermedia Examination Economics Science: Friedrich-Otto-Universität Bamberg
OTHER EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Board VZB, Verband der Zeitschriftenverlage in Bayern
Member Advisory Board, devcom Game Developer Conference
Chairman of The Board Media Committee, Funding FFF Bayern
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2022-2024: Principal holoride GmbH
2023-2024: Lecturer at Mediadesign University of Applied Sciences
2019-2022: Managing Director Intellivision Entertainment Europe GmbH, President European Operations
2014-2019: CEO/ Managing Director Computec Media GmbH
2014-2019: Managing Director 4Players GmbH
2014-2019: Managing Director Golem Media GmbH
2014-2019: Managing Director Aruba Events GmbH
2014-2019: Managing Director CMS Media Services GmbH
2011-2014: Chief Operating Officer Computec Media AG
2009-2011: Publishing Director Computec Media
2005-2009: Commercial Director Computec Media AG
2000-2005: Editorial Director Computec Media AG
1992-2000: Editor in Chief Computec Media AG
Responsibility and Implementation of all acquisitions at Computec
2016: Making Games (IDG Verlag/ Webedia)
2016: Areamobile AG, Berlin
2014: Aruba Events GmbH, Cologne
2014: Medialinx AG, Munich
2013: 4Players GmbH, Hamburg (from Freenet AG)
2012: LiveEmotion GmbH, Munich
2011: Golem Media (Holtzbrinck AG)
2010: Gamezone (Code Zero AG)
Operative Responsibility as Editor in Chief at Computec
2002: Kids Zone Fun & Action
2001: Club Nintendo Magazine
2001: Girls Zone
2000: Kids Zone
1999: XBOX-ZONE
1998: PlayStation Zone
1997: N-ZONE
1993: Sega Magazin
1992: Amiga Games
