Christian Fonnesbech is Head of IP Development at the Leverage Partnership, helping games companies and investors develop lasting IPs, Narratives and Brands. Recent clients include Bandai Namco, Plaion, Starbreeze, Supermassive, Funcom, Good Shepherd, Nordisk Games (Egmont), Deck 13, Skeleton Hand, Reto Moto, Yager, Dirtybit, Rockfish Games, DDM, Bearded Ladies, Tarsier, Purple Lamp, Ironward, Redmask, Stumpy Squid and Raw Fury.

He was formerly Head of IP Development at Nordisk Games, the game investment arm of Egmont, a Nordic media conglomerate with 6.600 employees. He has been Narrative Director at Deck 13 and Head of Artistic Research at the Centre For Interactive Media Arts in Norway, running the PhD program for new narrative forms.

In his earlier career, Christian was a video game entrepreneur, financing, producing and directing story based games and Internet content for advertising, learning and entertainment. After 35 commercial projects he co-founded Investigate North, developing an entirely new entertainment category and bringing it to market.

After 50+ projects as video game entrepreneur, analyst and business developer, Christian is able to supply the strategic view and the leadership to realize it.

– Unique experience with narrative content, world building, IP strategy and Franchise development.
– Full process experience, taking 36 game and story projects from pitch to delivery across media types.
– Award winning producer and director of content for advertising, learning and entertainment.
– Proven record as digital strategist and executive producer.

Case examples:
– Developing single games into global entertainment brands
– Developing a new IP, including world, stories and characters for an open-world Action RPG game.
– Story and Franchise development for existing game universes
– Developing and pitching TV series concepts based on game properties

– Building capability within a game developer to publish own games
– Raising millions of Euros in funding and investments

Core competences
– Hands-on understanding of entire financing, development and marketing processes
– Hands-on experience with achieving results (not just talking and strategizing)
– Hands-on experience with world building and IP development for games.
– Developing digital and cross-platform strategy as well as go-to-market plans.
– Analyzing teams, digital strategies, game & content products and potential.
– Pitching & Public speaking
– Developing existing IPs into global entertainment brands