Mike is an online games industry veteran. He’s held leadership roles with Wargaming America, Inc. Big Collision Games and FASA Studios at Microsoft. While at Wargaming, he drove partnership activities for Wargaming’s own eSports organization in the Americas, the Wargaming.net League. The League is the pinnacle of competition where pro gamers from around the world compete for cash prizes and worldwide recognition. Having previously delivered partnerships with gaming market leaders like Twitch, Intel, and Nvidia for Wargaming, Mike is now taking SPYR’s flagship game, Pocket Starships in a more competitive direction. He is now implementing a strategy for the Pocket Starships’ eSports initiative and taking it to the global market. Mike role with SPYR is VP of Strategic Partnerships.

Lars began his career in the interactive entertainment industry as co-founder of Gamigo, one of the biggest online game magazines and MMO Publisher in Germany, where he spent the six years overseeing all technical and MMOG-related operations as Chief Technical Officer. In July of 2007, he took over as CTO of Curse Inc, a highly popular MMO game portal. Later he led the US Office for Gameforge and founded Frogster America Inc. to launch Runes of Magic, one of the most successful free to play MMOs on the market. In his career he has launched 25 MMO games. His academic achievements include degrees from the Management Akademie of RWE and from TraiCen Technology School, both based in Muenster.

Over his 28 year legal career, Jim has been provided a unique understanding and perspective of business, construction, real estate transactions, and complex litigation. He has worked with publicly traded corporations, small businesses and individuals, which has him well positioned for the role of CEO, President and General Counsel of SPYR, Inc. Jim has helped many companies large and small thrive. He has a deep history of valued client relationships and approaches every situation with entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen. Jim welcomed the challenge to take the SPYR in an entirely new direction. Upon joining he immediately took action, rebranding the company with a rejuvenated identity and creating a new wholly owned subsidiary, SPYR APPS, to focus on mobile games publishing and development.