Babichev Maxims Yuryevich

Biography

2008: Start on VKontakte

In 2008, Maxim Babichev began his career on VKontakte.

In 2014, with his participation, VKontakte launched a mobile platform for iOS and Android.

2017

Participation in the launch of the Direct Games platform by the VKontakte social network

In 2017, he participated in the launch social network Vkontakte of the Direct Games platform, which allows you to run HTML5 game-based games in mobile applications of the social network.

Head of the VKontakte gaming platform

According to December 2017, Maxim Babichev holds the position of head of the VKontakte gaming platform, where he is responsible for the strategic development of the project. In addition, he is building a gaming ecosystem of the social network. He is also actively involved in the development of the gaming community in Russia.

Executive Producer Mail.Ru Games Ventures

In December 2017, Maxim Babichev joined the Mail.Ru Games Ventures team. In the gaming investment division, he will take the position of executive producer. Maxim Babichev will begin work in the gaming investment division of Mail.Ru Games Ventures from the beginning of 2018, while retaining the position of head of the VKontakte gaming platform.

In particular, Babichev will join the MRGV investment committee and will participate in the assessment and selection of applications sent by game studios. In addition, he will become a mentor of projects that have received funding and, together with other producers Alisher Yakubov and Igor Gayvoronsky, will accompany promising gaming companies at all stages of development, help them scale up and enter the international market.

We are glad that Maxim Babichev joined the Mail.Ru Games Ventures team. His expertise as the head of the gaming platform of one of the largest, social networks Russia experience in communication with developers, understanding methods for evaluating game projects will help our partners to competently develop their projects and become independent studios, "commented on the appointment, Ilya Karpinsky director of Mail.Ru Games Ventures.

2021: Green Green Business Development Director

The development director of Green Green was Maxim Babichev, ex-head Playrix Business Development Department and VKontakte gaming platform. Green Green announced this on July 15, 2021.

Maxim Babichev, one of the most famous representatives of the gaming industry, in June 2021 joined the team of top managers of Green Green, an international holding company in mobile sphere.

In Green Green, Maxim is responsible for business development as CBDO (Chief Business Development Officer).

For seven years in the international gaming industry, Maxim has gathered an impressive backstory: created from scratch a network in the gaming industry in the Russian Federation and the CIS, built technological and gaming platforms and attracted players and developers to them, sought companies for mergers and acquisitions, built processes to grow and scale various teams.

We invited Maxim as an expert in the international mobile market. It will help us grow the pool of partnerships in developing and investing in mobile products, form an international network of companies united by a common goal, and further develop variations in forms of cooperation, said Dima Morozov, founder of Green Green.

In Green Green, Maxim Babichev began to search for and attract mobile games and studios development for publishing, partnership and joint development in the USA, Europe, the Russian Federation and the CIS.

Green Green is a flexible structure with a high decision-making speed and an individual approach to choosing the form of cooperation with partners. In July 2021, two deals in the market were already announced - Green Green's investment in the Mercs mobile shooter and the joint shared opening of the NPU Games casual games studio. A strong marketing and PR team on the one hand, high expertise and interest in games on the other, plus a powerful technological stack is a rare combination in our market. I'm excited to be part of Green Green, noted Maxim Babichev.