About Us

LAYERNET GmbH has been founded as an International consultancy company in the Summer of 2008. The roots of LAYERNETs business lie in international exploitation of licensing rights for various clients. LAYERNET is a business network, active within various layers of the value chain.

Stefan Layer (German)
Founder & CEO

Prior to starting a consultancy company, Stefan Layer was Chief Marketing & Sales Officer / Vice President with Playlogic International, a publisher based in Amsterdam and New York. In addition to heading the Marketing and Sales department, Layer was responsible for the acquisition of licenses. Based on his extensive network in the area of content suppliers, he has sourced games developed by highly skilled external development teams and worldwide licensing partners such as RedBull. Layer has restructured the game line-up significantly and he designed the strategy for all Playlogic's digital distribution and found the necessary partners for it. He acquired key licenses and successfully brought them to the market. He has also signed worldwide distribution agreements with major parties like Atari and Eidos.

Before joining Playlogic, Layer was Vice President Licensing Europe with Atari. In this role he was responsible for the European licensing activities of Atari Europe. This included acquisition of game content and other IP, such as movie licenses. Furthermore, he was in charge of the sales of Atari owned licenses. This included as well the exploitation of licenses by download or Streaming/on demand services. Layer has also headed the expansion of Atari's distribution towards Eastern Europe, which gave im in-depth knowledge of market structures in that region. Stefan Layer is highly experienced in research and development of new FMCG sales chains and distribution channels, and the creation of a European team to exploit licenses in all channels. He has many years of experience in IP licensing and games industry business development