“I help organizations make work more fun.”

MARIO HERGER is CEO, founder and partner of Enterprise Gamification Consultancy LLC, a strategic consulting group focused on gamification, innovation, social business, and intrapreneurship in the enterprise. He had been Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California and Global Head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP where he had worked for 15 years. He also co-founded in 2013 and leads the Austrian Innovation Center Silicon Valley (AICSV) that connects Austrian and CEE startups and companies with the Silicon Valley.

In his work as gamification consultant and at SAP he has encountered and supported gamification efforts in the enterprise from multiple levels and departments, like Sustainability, On Demand, Mobile, HR, Training & Education, Banking etc. He has driven the awareness around gamification by organizing and leading innovation events around this topic, holding dozens of one- or two-day gamification and innovation workshops, working with gamification platform- & service-providers and game studios, consulting and advising organizations, and by incorporating gamification into the strategy.
He regularly speaks at and co-organizes conferences on gamification and innovation (amongst other topics). His large network in the gamification and innovation space allows him to pull in experts from every corner of the world into projects.

He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and an undergraduate degree in International Business Management from the Vienna University of Economy.

He is the author of the following gamification books:

• Enterprise Gamification – Engaging people by letting them have fun 2014
• Gamification in Human Resources, 2014
• Gamification in Banking & Financials, 2014
• Gamification in Community & Innovation Management, 2014
• Gamification @ Work: Designing Engaging Business Software (co-author Janaki Kumar), 2013