Micha van der Meer

Demo scene and game industry veteran. Strategic executive advisor.

About Micha

Demo scene and game industry veteran. Micha’s qualities and added value are less in physical development and more in interim and executive roles at the C-level (CTO/CIO/CISO), as well as board of directors including the industry codes and guidelines for RvC.

He started back in 1986 as an assembly programmer on the Commodore 64 as hacker and trader for Hotline, Fairlight and NATO/NEC.

Micha's Expertise

• • Trans domain (Game technology, Fintech , Neurotech and Cyber security)
• • Strategy and expansion of studios abroad (experience in the UK, Germany, South Korea, Russia, and India).
• • Establishing holding structures, setting up stock options (e.g., a Dutch STAK) for staff, and what steps one should take, for example, with tax benefits and transferring to family.
• • Reorganization / Interim management.
• • Financing (contacts for angels, ventures, etc.) / Valuation / M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions).
• • Business models (including unorthodox ones) with underlying cost calculation based on ABC method.
• • Setting up and applying for R&D subsidies among multiple parties including governments and universities.
• • Global partnerships with third parties and an international network.
• • AI (both technical and legal aspects).
• • Hardware intergrations and connections (both technical and legal including MDR, etc.).
• • Cyber security (including NEN 7510, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, etc.). I am involved as red teaming teacher at the university and can provide many insights from this area.
• • Cloud (including databases also strategy on costs, when to use what and how to keep these costs controllable and transparent for budgets and the CFO/CEO/RvC).

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