Volker is the Global Head of Business Development – Games for Research In Motion (BlackBerry) where he arrived via the acquisition of mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop where he was the Chief Strategy Officer. He is also a co-founder of Blue Beck, a game and app development studio.

Volker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an EMEA Board Member of MEF and a Governor of the Fallibroome Academy. He is also a co-organiser of TEDx Youth @ Manchester and a co-founder of Mobile Monday Manchester. He blogs at http://vhirsch.com and tweets @vhirsch.