Ivan is the Chief Operations Officer for the Gaming Malta Foundation. Prior to joining GamingMalta, Ivan was CEO for an advertising agency, TBWA/ANG across both Malta and Greece. He was instrumental in leading his agency to win major new business accounts including Bank of Valletta and servicing blue-chip clients such as McDonald’s, Nissan, and Mr. Green.

He has also held senior marketing roles in the private sector focusing on beverage and retail specifically with Simonds Farsons Cisk pls, Malta’s largest brewer. In his current role, Ivan is responsible for promoting Malta as a “Home of GamingExcellence” spearheading GamingMalta’s projects in three main verticals: iGaming, Video Gaming, and Esports. Due to his industry expertise, Ivan is regularly invited to speak as a keynote speaker during high-profile gaming conferences. In 2018, his work was rewarded by the Malta Gaming Awards when he took home the Outstanding Contribution to Gaming Award.

Adrien is a dedicated video game crafter, who’s super versatile and can fit a lot of roles in the game industry. He loves developing stories and working on game design. He founded Studio Black Flag with his team and will focus on creating original games and stories, promote indie and other initiatives for the gaming industry.

Mark Venturelli is Founder and CEO of Rogue Snail.

One of the most well-known developer on the Brazilian industry, with 12 years of experience, Mark acted as game designer and producer on titles such as Relic Hunters Legend, Chroma Squad and Dungeonland.

Mark Lee has 14 years’ experience in business strategy development as a serial entrepreneur, private investor, author and columnist of The Herald and Kyunghyang News. After starting his career at Korea Telecom in business strategy and content investment, he has led many successful marketing campaigns and generation strategies for Gamevil, Longtu Korea, and various companies. As a co-founder of 3 start-up companies in Korea, he has been an executive charged with helping formulate, facilitate and communicate an organization's plans for the future including 2 successful M&A deals. Currently, he is a CMO at SuperTree

Rick has vast experiences in growing new businesses set out for global expansion. He has over 14+ years of managerial experience in the field of corporate strategy, business development and operations covering a range of business areas in gaming publishing and monetization in addition to other online businesses from leading corporations such as Electronic Arts, Naver, Hangame and Samsung Electronics.

Rick has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He brings to GTR a solid foundation and understanding of the industry and is committed to help grow the GTR ecosystem.

Pontus “Zlapped” Mähler is a professional gamer and entrepreneur who has won multiple tournaments globally as well as receive multiple awards for his performances over the years. His main focus was always technicalities and how he could improve on a fundamental and mechanical level, which he then applied to all steps of his career.

With a move to Thailand the year of 2016 he shaped the next step of Thai & Foreign eSports placing top 3 in 4 tournaments in a short amount of time with no english speakers and then transitioning into the role as CEO of the organization in just under 3 months of playng for it.

At GTR, he provides valuable, professional opinion after playing GTR games, and promotes games with his influencers’ network

André Bernhardt has been part of the games industry for the past 18 years and is very experienced within the online, as well as "offline" and mobile game publishing industry.He worked at different PC, console and mobile publishers like Sony Computer Entertainment, Sunflowers, RTL Games and Travian Games before he founded IndieAdvisor in 2012. Since then he is working as a freelance agent supporting developers to find a publisher and vice versa while teaching at different high schools or giving lectures at games conferences where he also organizes indie exhibitions and events.Indie Advisor offers external business development for developers, start-ups and publishers. In 2015 he then founded Target Games together with Thorsten Unger and became the European partner for GTR.

At GTR he is focused on getting more European developers, publishers and service providers to join the great GTR ecosystem.

Sang-ho is an Executive Director at KIP(Korea Investment Partners) who specializes in gaming and new media contents. He joined the firm in 2012 and invested in the mobile gaming space such as Seriously, Huuuge games and Appota. Previously, Sang-ho was a business consultant at Accenture where he was involved in digital marketing strategy development projects. His clients ranged from local home shopping companies to global automakers. Before that, he was a new business strategist at NHN where he analyzed potential new markets for online games and developed business strategies.

Ilya headed up several entrepreneurial efforts in Europe and Asia. Has quickly developed expertise in the gaming business, licensing, and publishing. Regularly attending conferences, he has a vast network for business and gaming development. Now working at MGVC and MY.GAMES, he is managing Business Development in Asia.

Before joining Koch Media in 2018, Sebastian started his career in the gaming industry as an editor for German publishing house Computec Media working for magazines like PC Games and other gaming outlets. After a two-year gig managing all localization for German publisher Kalypso Media, Sebastian returned to journalism, heading the game development magazine Making Games at the publishing house IDG Entertainment (later Webedia), best-known for the biggest German gaming outlet GameStar, and later heading the gaming-related content marketing website GameZ.de for the German retailer MediaMarkt. With this vast experience in reviewing games, Sebastian then joined Koch Media’s business development unit, and since then is always on the hunt for new projects be it for distribution deals or full funding and publishing under Koch Media’s labels like Deep Silver. Besides evaluating and discussing projects for that with developers, setting up deal terms and contracts is the second big chunk of daily work.

Bobby Wertheim is the Director of Content for SEGA Europe’s Searchlight team. During Bobby’s 10+ years in the industry, Bobby has worked in QA, Production, Business Planning and for the past 5 years has been working within SEGA Europe’s outreach team, Searchlight. Bobby is looking for developers with a track record of delivering fun games, a clear vision of what they want to create while having a long-term view of what they want to achieve. SEGA Searchlight is looking to provide full funding and publishing support to the right partnership with a look to create a long running successful franchise.