Management

Seth Iorio
CEO | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG
Managing Director and COO | Frogster Online Gaming GmbH

Seth Iorio assumed the role of Managing Director and COO at Frogster Online Gaming GmbH at the beginning of October 2010, taking over responsibility for the technical and customer-focused areas of customer care, community management, payment and fraud management, localization, programming, and IT. In January 2011, he was appointed to the executive board of Frogster Interactive Pictures AG and has held the position of CEO since 1 January 2012. Seth Iorio is also a member of the executive board as COO at Frogster’s parent company Gameforge AG.

Prior to his start at Frogster, Seth Iorio, who holds a diploma in business management, was VP Business Development and authorized representative responsible for Customer Communications and Marketing at Gameforge. In 2000 he founded Rabbit Software AG which he led as CTO. Following this, he was active as an IT consultant for companies such as Victoria Versicherung AG and as project leader for United Internet.

Tobias Haar
Member of the Executive Board | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG

The supervisory board appointed Tobias Haar to the executive board of Frogster with effect of January 1, 2012. In this position, he is responsible in particular for the activities of the foreign subsidiaries, licence contracting, and the legal and administrative business areas. Tobias has led the joint Legal Department of Frogster and Gameforge since September 2011 as General Counsel. In addition to his positions at Gameforge and Frogster, he is Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of G.A.M.E., the German Computer Game Industry Association in Berlin. The legal graduate, lawyer and legal informatics specialist specialises in national and international economic and IT law as well as mergers and acquisitions and recently coordinated the legal and administrative aspects of the takeover of Frogster by Gameforge. He came to the Gameforge group in 2008, after many years of professional experience as a lawyer in a leading international law firm as well as in the private sector.

Dominic Scheve
Vice President Finance | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG
Managing Director and CFO | Frogster Online Gaming GmbH

Dominic Scheve came to Frogster in 2006 holding a university diploma in business administration. After completing his postgraduate degree as Master of Business Administration (MBA) successfully, he works as Vice President Finance at Frogster Interactive Pictures AG since spring of 2009. As of October 2010 Dominic Scheve has taken responsibility as Managing Director and CFO at Frogster Online Gaming leading the fields of finance and controlling.

Daniel Ullrich
Vice President Operations | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG
Managing Director and CMO | Frogster Online Gaming GmbH

Daniel Ullrich came to Frogster in 2006 as a member of the management team at OnlineWelten GmbH. Since 2008 he has held the position of Director of Product Management, playing a decisive role in the successful launch and ongoing operation of the success title ‘Runes of Magic’. The qualified Project Management Economist (VWA) was appointed Vice President Operations at Frogster Interactive Pictures AG in August 2010. In this position, he is responsible for the fields of product management, marketing, product PR, graphics and web design as well as quality assurance and game improvement. In October 2010 he assumed the role of CMO and Managing Director in the executive board at Frogster Online Gaming with the same areas of responsibility.

Bounty Bay Online

Pirates, Merchants & Explorers

With Bounty Bay Online players enter the historic Age of Discoveries when famous circumnavigators were roaming the seas. Since 2007, they start an online career as a merchant, sailor, fisherman, pirate, explorer or in one of several other professions in a charming sailor setting. Alone or with a guild of players they follow gripping quests, start a flourishing overseas trade and discover monumental sights. Following exciting player vs. player battles on land and sea, powerful guilds can take control of cities and entire colonies and thus control their destinies.

More information on www.bountybayonline.com.

Mythos

Gripping Action MMORPG in popular comic look

Mythos brings the highly successful Hack'n'Slash formula into an action-packed online role-playing game. Mythos offers players a virtual fantasy world based on an atmospheric comic book style where they hunt countless monsters in a variety of diverse dungeons. There is a choice of four races and three character classes which can be heavily customized. Mythos was originally developed by Flagship Studios and since 2010 has been further continued and prepared for its release in Europe by the Korean publisher HanbitSoft. The action-packed online game is due to throw open its gates in early 2011.

More information can be found on www.mythos-europe.com.

Runes of Magic

a world full of wizardry and adventure

Runes of Magic has redefined the standard for free-to-play MMORPGs since 2009 with its massive amount of features. The online role-playing game carries an exciting, multi-layered story, driven by more than 2,700 quests set in the atmospheric fantasy world of Taborea. ‘Runes of Magic’ features a unique dual class system enabling players to combine one of eight primary classes with a secondary class. Thanks to a comprehensive crafting system, individual player homes, arenas and battlefields, guild castles and siege wars, challenging dungeons and many other features ‘Runes of Magic’ offers plenty of online adventures for all kinds of players.

More information can be found on www.runesofmagic.com.

TERA

online game world to set new standards in the genre

An impressive and highly-detailed virtual world with triple-A quality claim awaits thousands of players with TERA. Entirely developed in Unreal Engine 3, TERA transcends current representatives of the genre with breathtaking 3D graphical environments, thrilling animations and spectacular effects. With six races and eight character classes, TERA offers an abundance of possibilities for character creation and development. The dynamic real-time combat system of TERA gets players engaged in battles considerably more actively than all conventional MMORPGs available on the market. TERA is set to be released in 2011 based on a subscription model.

More information can be found on www.tera-europe.com.

Throne of Fire

Gripping Dragon Combat in a Browser Window

With Throne of Fire, Frogster’s first browser-based fantasy world will cast open its gates. PC adventurers will receive free access to a medieval-themed mythical world offering impressive wide-screen landscapes using the latest Flash technology. Players will be able to take on the role of a warrior, mage, priest, warlock or paladin to fight fearsome dragons in individual or group-wise turn-based fights. Only those who can defeat the formidable boss opponents in the diverse and demanding raid instances will get the opportunity to ascend to the throne of the kingdom.

More information can be found on www.throne-of-fire.com.

Christoph Gerlinger

CEO | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG

Despite having left the games industry more than two years ago Christoph received a call from his former colleague and friend Dirk Weyel at the end of 2004, that a small computer games publisher with 11 staff was for sale. From 1996 to 1999 Christoph had co-built the German computer games business of Psygnosis, a Sony group company. 1999 he had co-founded CDV Software Entertainment AG took it public as MD in the CFO role in 2000 and co-managed it until end of 2001. Psygnosis and CDV were a big success during his time. So why not buy a small company and switch to the driver seat completely? Opportunities in the games hit business are large but so are the risks. Even more if you are a small challenger required to move ahead into innovative niches. Christoph bought the company beginning of 2005 together with Dirk, friends and family. Under the new name Frogster Interactive Pictures they have since focussed the company as one of the first in Europe on the growth market of virtual worlds, so called massively multiplayer online games. For the purists - Christoph was born 1967, has started his career with a "Banklehre" and holds a master degree in business admin from JW Goethe University in Frankfurt.