Franz Gerhart

Franz Gerhart is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Vyking, a Game Aggregator and platform provider built around modular architecture, operator freedom, and scalable growth. With over 15 years of experience across eCommerce, software development, project management, and strategic leadership, Franz has led hundreds of projects inside and outside the iGaming industry. His background spans server and client-side development, business development, IT sales, and technology driven marketing, giving him a holistic view of how product, performance, and innovation intersect.

At Vyking, Franz set out to help operators move beyond templated platforms and take control of their roadmap, player experience, and infrastructure. Under his leadership, Vyking introduced Reverse Integration, enabling seamless connectivity with existing systems, and KingPay, a crypto native payments solution supporting hybrid transactions across fiat and digital currencies.

He is a strong advocate for treating platforms as evolving products, guided by a modular building block philosophy that empowers operators to design, adapt, and scale technology on their own terms.