HANS IPPISCH
Hans Ippisch founded Bavaria's first game studio in 1986 at the age of 16 and scored hits that are still popular today with Danger Freak, Kangarudy and Rock'n'Roll, among others. At Computec Media, as editor-in-chief, he launched market-leading magazines and websites, transformed the print publisher into a digitally oriented media company as CEO and was co-founder of devcom, Europe´s biggest game developer conference. He set up the European branch for the US company Intellivision and managed the production of over 20 games. At the Audi spin-off holoride, the world's first in-car VR platform, he was responsible for the development of all content. As a lecturer, he teaches games publishing at the Link Campus University in Rome, among others. Currently he holds positions as CEO of HAIP GmbH and Executive Director at BBG Entertainment driving innovation in gaming, media and beyond.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ippisch
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 Economic Science: Friedrich-Otto-Universität Bamberg
CURRENT POSITIONS
CEO and Founder HAIP GmbH, Nuremberg
Creating content for any platform & any target group
Executive Director BBG Entertainment, Munich
Producer of Quiz with Fritz, 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) 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), 300 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
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
