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Johannes Sevket Gözalan  CEO Co-Founder |
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Starting in music management (featuring a Grammy win with Terence Trent D'Arby), Johannes Sevket worked in top executive positions in the film (Warner Bros) and music industries (Polygram, Universal Music). From 2002 - 2004 he was CEO at Sueddeutsche Verlag Munich, heading the business publication and book publishing companies with its more than 2500 employees. From 2005 - 2009 Johannes Sevket was CEO at Computec Media AG, a market leader of electronic entertainment publications (print). Under his leadership Computec's online business increased from about 300,000 to more than 3 million active users within 3.5 years. He was the driving force for the acquisition of the BLASC database and the launch of the buffed.de website. In his personal life he is trying his best to keep up with his young kids - and is hoping that Augustiner Bier finally conquers North America |
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Reto Bisang Senior Software Developer / Architect Co-Founder / CTO |
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Born in Switzerland, Reto developed standalone and web applications for Swisscom, the leading Swiss telecommunication company, in the departement finance, health-care and communications. A high degree of interest in 3D frameworks and new technologies along with a passion for video games and the gaming industry eventually got him a contract work position at buffed.de where he first met his Playata colleagues. Reto excels at analyzing data formats and programming clients. Outside of work, he enjoys to have a walk in the Japanese countryside, where he's living with his wife. |
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Benjamin Hirsch Senior Software Developer / Architect Co-Founder |
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Benjamin developed his gaming taste growing up with the NES and the very first Game Boy. After starting his programming career in several IT positons, he worked as a PHP web developer for an advertising agency. In 2001 he started playing his first MMO Dark Age of Camelot, which led to the development of a game database (www.vanen.info) together with Marcel and Mathias. Their next joint project became BLASC, Germany's most popular World of Warcraft database. Employed at Computec Media AG from 2006 - 2009, Benjamin was a member of the buffed.de launch team. When he's not busy building new exciting web sites, he still plays Dark Age of Camelot or enjoys the sun on the Lake Constance. |
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Marcel Anacker Senior Software Developer / Architect Co-Founder |
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Marcel wrote his first program on a piece of paper when he was a kid. His access to computers improved over the years and after studying computer sciences he worked as a web developer and programmer (proud PHP veteran since version 3.0.13). As a side project, he started Germany's most popular game database for Dark Age of Camelot with Benjamin and Mathias. Together they followed-up with the creation of the BLASC WoW database in 2005. Marcel's specialty is converting game data into web sites for end users. He was employed at Computec Media AG / buffed.de from 2006 - 2009. When he's not tinkering with LUA interfaces and the like, Marcel is busy raiding in WoW and expanding his Blu-ray movie collection. |
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Mathias Fabian Senior Software Developer / Architect Co-Founder / Product manager |
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Mathias has been working as a software developer since 1999. It didn't take him long to make the jump from serious fare such as hospital management programs to gaming. He started developing tools for browser games and worked on one of the first databases for Dark Age of Camelot together with Benjamin and Marcel. He has been developing the original BLASC database client and was employed at Computec Media AG / buffed from 2006 - 2009. Mathias also plays a mean game of Guitar Hero and has maxed out his fire resistance thanks to his position behind the grill at the annual buffed BBQ. |
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