Board of Supervising Directors

Information on the current board of supervising directors


Gerhard Florin, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
(born 1959, male, German, 1st term, member since 2011)
Dr. Florin presently works as an independent contractor. In that capacity he currently serves as board member for: King.com based in London; InnoGames based in Hamburg; and Kobojo based in Paris. From 2006 to 2010 Dr. Florin served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager of International Publishing of Electronic Arts Inc., initially being responsible for the international publishing business of Electronic Arts and later for their worldwide publishing business, based in Geneva. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Florin served as Senior Vice President, responsible for Electronic Arts’ European publishing business, based in London. From 1996 to 2000 he served as Vice President and General Manager for the German speaking region of Electronic Arts’ business, based in Colonge. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, he held various positions at BMG, the global music division of Bertelsmann AG, and served as a Consultant of McKinsey. Dr. Florin holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Augsburg, Germany. Dr. Florin holds 100,000 share options in the company and 0 shares.

Torleif Ahlsand, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board
(born 1966, male, Norwegian, 3rd term, member since 2005)
Mr. Ahlsand is a General Partner in Northzone that controls 5,449,175 shares in the Company, and is hence not viewed as independent. He holds a number of board positions in high growth technology companies. Mr. Ahlsand also controls 300,000 shares in
Funcom directly and through his company Brownske Bevegelser AS and holds 200,000 share options in the company. Prior to Northzone, Mr. Ahlsand was VP Corporate Finance in Handelsbanken Securities and a corporate development executive in Orkla ASA. Mr.
Ahlsand also has a professional technical background as a research scientist at CERN outside Geneva and as a telecommunications engineer in NERA Telecom. Mr. Ahlsand holds a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from NTNU (1991) and an MBA with Honors from IMD in Switzerland (1997).


Michel Cassius,
(born 1957, male, French, 2nd term, member since 2006)
Mr. Cassius is CEO of Gekko.com, a private internet company based in London. Mr Cassius is also co-founder and Director of YoYo Games Ltd, a startup company which launched www.yoyogames.com in 2007, a user generated casual gaming site. In the past, Mr. Cassius has served as the European Managing Director of Fun Technologies and as Senior Director of Microsoft's Xbox business in EMEA where he managed the publishing and Xbox Live businesses and launched the Xbox 360. He previously spent seven years at Electronic Arts, where he led EA.com, Electronic Art's online gaming business in Europe and launched Ultima Online, one of the first MMO's in Europe. Mr. Cassius holds 66,000 shares and 100,000 share options in the Company.


Claus Højbjerg Andersen,
(born 1965, male Danish, 2nd term, member since 2005)
Mr. Højbjerg Andersen is a General Partner in Nordic Venture Partners that holds 5,208,325 shares and 50,000 share options in the Company. Mr. Højbjerg Andersen has been with Nordic Venture Partners since the start in early 2000 and has over the years focused mostly on enterprise software and internet related investments. Prior to joining Nordic Venture Partners he had an international career in the financial industry in the areas of asset management, research and sale through working for Danske Capital (Copenhagen), Nordea (Luxembourg) and Enskilda Securities (London). Mr. Højbjerg Andersen holds a B.Comm. degree in Credit and Finance from Copenhagen Business School.


Supervisory Board Profile


The Company has prepared a profile outlining the composition of the board, taking into account the nature of the business of the Company and it subsidiaries and the necessary professionalism and background of the members of the Supervisory Board. The described profile is as follows:


Required expertise and background of the Supervisory Board:

  • Knowledge and experience in the financial, legal, economic, organizational and marketing fields.
  • Experience in managing or supervising the management of a listed company.
  • Knowledge of, experience in and affinity with the gaming industry.
  • Knowledge of and experience with working in an international environment.
  • The ability, also in terms of available time, to monitor and stimulate the general course of affairs within the company in a prompt and effective manner and to provide the CEO and the Management Board with advice relating to the formulation and execution of the company policy.
  • No conflicts of interests at the time of appointment.

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