Career

He is a senior executive and entrepreneur in computer and online games companies since 1996. Gerlinger was named one of Germany"s most 50 interesting young entrepreneurs by a leading business magazine. German Startups Group was founded by Gerlinger in May 2012.

The operating business was launched in June 2012 and the public release was on July 27, 2012.

Gerlinger earned a master"s degree in Business Administration and Management from JW Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1992. Early in his career, Gerlinger was Chief Financial Officer of the German subsidiary of Psygnosis (Sony Group)(1996 - 1998).

In early 2005, Gerlinger founded the MMO Games Publisher Frogster Interactive Pictures AG. He was Frogster"s long standing Chief Executive Officer and worked with the team during its critical growth phases. End of 2011 he left Frogster.

Achievements

• He is best known as the founder of MMO Games publisher Frogster Interactive Pictures AG (now Gameforge Berlin AG) listed at Frankfurt stock exchange from 2006 until its takeover in 2010. Later he was Chief Financial Officer and Company-Founder of CDV Software Entertainment AG (1999 - 2001), listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange from 2000 until 2010, before serving as General Manager of Atari"s German entity Infogrames Deutschland GmbH (2002).