Carsten van Husen (GER)

Carsten is CEO of Gameforge 4D, Germany.

Gameforge is the leading publisher of (free-to-play) MMOs in the Western hemisphere, accumulating more than 200mio users in over 75 countries. Having started in 2003 with the publishing of self-developed market-building web games (e.g. OGame, Ikariam), Gameforge hired Carsten in early 2006 to start publishing client-based MMOs within a newly established Gameforge 4D daughter company. In the meantime, its leading title Metin2 has surged to dominate the Western hemisphere with an active customer base above 9 million monthly.

Carsten is operating online games since 1999, first founding and trade-selling a web 1.0-games-company, later launching the first commercially successful Asian MMORPG in Europe ever in 2001, as Director Games International of pan-European ISP Tiscali. Carsten holds a first degree and MBA from business schools in Germany, the UK and France.