Team

Hans Kim serves as LILA Games’ legal counsel and advisor.

I am a serial entrepreneur with my primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build my first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 i’d consider myself a veteran in the Esports industry.

Building companies and making ideas become reality is what i really love. Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of my daily work. I am a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. I team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.

For 23 years now i have been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 i am actively investing in and supporting selected startups in the Games&Esports space, nowadays dominantly through my Venture Fund BITKRAFT Esports Ventures.

Many of the most innovative and leading assets in the Esports space have been founded or supported by myself: ESL – Largest Esports tournament production and marketing, BITKRAFT – worlds first and only Esports VC, BAYES (formerly DOJO Madness) – leading esports big data company, G2 Esports – Leading Western Esports Team, The Esports Observer – Largest Esports Business platform, runtime.gg – first performance nutrition brand in esports, epics.gg – first and leading digital trading card game in esports.

Specialties: Company building, Investment and Investment Portfolio Management, Definition and Iteration of Vision&Strategy for Business and Product, (International) Business Development and Deployment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Management and Execution, Fundraising, (Live) Presentations / Coachings.

Jasper is an Associate at BITKRAFT Ventures where he identifies and evaluates new investment opportunities. Furthermore, he provides strategic and operational assistance to BITKRAFT portfolio companies while being a helping hand in their long-term positioning for growth. Jasper conducts market and segment deep-dives to develop investment hypotheses for the team.

Before joining BITKRAFT, Jasper gained experiences at Amundi Asset Management, a leading European asset manager, at BITKRAFT’s Seed Fund, and as an analyst at Lakestar, a successful European venture capital firm.

Jasper studied business administration and philosophy at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and Columbia University in the City of New York. Besides a history in traditional sports competing as a golfer on a national level in Germany, he has always been dedicated to esports since his early childhood, reaching the top percentiles of players across different major game titles.

Co-Founded Machine Zone Inc. in 2007. Pitched an early idea to tech incubator Y-Combinator and was accepted into the winter ’08 batch by Paul Graham. Spent the last 13 years learning what users want in a mobile social game. In that time shipped over 17 mobile titles all of which reached the top of the charts.

In May 2020 we were acquired by AppLovin. It was a great 13 years at MZ but I’m just as excited to continue innovating in the mobile games space under the AppLovin umbrella.

Richard Kim is a Partner on the Galaxy Interactive team. He joined Galaxy Digital as COO in May 2018, before joining the Venture team full time in January 2019. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18, where he also led the initiative to buildout a digital assets franchise around trading/custody in 2018. From 2010-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, a $3b/year franchise, and prior to that was a derivatives and regulation attorney in the Corporate & Investment Bank. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group, focusing on bankruptcy, derivatives and regulatory matters. He also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School teaching a course on the Dodd-Frank Act. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.

Zhong Liu Michael Fan is a Principal on the Galaxy Interactive team. He joined Galaxy Digital as Technical Consultant in February 2020, before joining the Venture team full time in April 2020. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of Blade Group, responsible for launching the Cloud Gaming service \”Shadow\” in the US. With more than 10 years of experience in high-tech, Michael served various roles, including Product Development, Business Development, Strategy and Sales, and worked with different international companies such as Orange (EMEA/Japan), Nufront (PRC), Softbank (Japan) or Conviva (NA/EMEA/LATAM/NEA).

Born in China and raised in France, Michael speaks French, Chinese and English. He is an alumnus of ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Ludovic Bodin is an entrepreneur, author, trainer, and investor. For two decades, more than 30 million people have enjoyed the products he co-created. He started and built multiple 7+ figure businesses, including a gaming company with 1.5 million fans.

Author of the soon to be published book “From Gamification to Revenuefication: Using the Secrets of Gaming to Scale Up Your Business,” Mr. Bodin empowers lifestyle entrepreneurs to large Fortune 500 companies from Europe, Asia, and America through his masterclass and coaching programs to Get Better Revenue.

Existing clients who have attended his live seminars and joined his inner circle include large companies from the Online Education, Entertainment and Automotive industries,  Startup and Lifestyle Entrepreneur enjoying the Step by Step Revenuefication approach.

Kristian is CEO of Super Evil Megacorp the developers of the mobile MOBA Vain Glory and cross-platform MOBA shooter Catalyst Black. Previously, Kristian was CEO at Playfish, EVP at EA, co-founder at Glu Mobile and Board Member of Supercell.

Tommy Krul co-founded Super Evil Megacorp in 2012. Tommy is Chief Technology Officer and principal architect of the studio’s propriety game engine and technology. Super Evil Megacorp is a video game developer based in Bay Area that creates mobile games for competitive and core gamers. The company’s debut title, Vainglory, was featured on stage during Apple’s iPhone 6 keynote event, and featured in Apple’s 2018 iPhone X commercial “Unleash”. Currently, Super Evil is working on it’s new online multiplayer game, Catalyst Black.

Kai is best known for his role as founder and CEO of RedOctane which published Guitar Hero and was later acquired by Activision. Kai later founded companies such as Blue Goji and Flash Bike and has been an active angel investor in a number of gaming related companies.