Heidi Vogel Brockmann
Heidi Vogel Brockmann
Founder and CEO
- GuardianGamer
Professional Information
Heidi
Vogel Brockmann
Founder and CEO
GuardianGamer
Technology
Education, Honors & Awards
University of Twente
Master in Computer Science
(1997)
Minor- Business
Yes
https://innovationsoftheworld.com/guardiangamer-gaming-from-a-different-view/ https://patents.google.com/?inventor=henderika+vogel&oq=henderika+vogel (several patents also under Heidi Vogel)
Personal Information
United States
CA
Los Gatos
Ski and love to watch my kids play field hockey,baseball, dance and play in the theatre.
Travel, Family, Work
Together with Ronald, whom I met in college freshman year, I have 4 beautiful children : Max, Rosalie, Cato and Lente. We are originally from the Netherlands and moved to California in 2017.
I started right out of college my own company in the Ed Tech space; found an investor and a team. This was back in 1997, where startups didn't get the guidance like nowadays. I had some very successful friends and just rolled into the scene and it prepared me well for a life full of startup endeavors.
More than 25 years
strategy, product development, business development, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, video technology, parenting , talent development, thought leadership
Heidi is an entrepreneur and computer scientist who anticipates the needs of businesses and society as they’re transformed by digital technology. She earned her Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is constantly seeking the edge of change and where she finds it, she pushes to make it a breakthrough.
For example, early on she saw that internet video would transform the world of television. So in 2005, she cofounded the interactive media company Avinity Systems in the Netherlands along with her now husband and her college engineering friends Ronald Brockmann , Arnoud Zwemmer, Maarten Hoeben and Andre Blum. The company created
technologies that enabled the conversion of television and the Internet. Their work paved the way toward the world of streaming video that we enjoy today through all the popular streaming media services.
ActiveVideo, a US company based in San Jose, acquired Avinity in 2009 and Heidi and Ron then moved to Silicon Valley with their four children in 2013.
Fast forward to today, and it was during the pandemic that Heidi saw how online gaming has become a lifeline for kids who need to maintain social contact with their friends. Gaming enabled them to engage in their natural need for play and interaction beyond just chatting. But she also worried about how little parents knew or understood about what was going on in these online worlds.
Interactive technologies and social media are transforming our kids’ worlds. The line between virtual and analog realities is growing blurrier, and parents naturally wonder how their children can navigate safely through these online and offline worlds.
These insights led Heidi to create GuardianGamer. The company offers a cloud supervision platform that is designed for parents with gaming children: It provides children with responsible online mentors and reports to parents about their activities — just like a babysitter would provide a report to parents after a trip to the playground.
Heidi is committed to her mission. She wants to create a safe and positive gaming ecosystem for the future.
Entrepreneur in various companies ( Picopoint, Avinity Systems, ActiveVideo, Lulu Tsinsadze (as an investor) , GuardianGamer)