Lisa Hanson

Lisa Cosmas Hanson is President and CEO of Niko Partners, a market research and consulting firm covering the Asia and MENA games market and their consumers. Lisa founded Niko Partners in 2002 and has since honed her expertise on the Chinese and Southeast Asian, East Asian, South Asian and MENA games industry that has benefitted Niko’s clients: Companies that are global leaders in game publishing, game services, hardware, and investments. Prior to founding Niko, she served as Lead Strategist at Viant, and as Director, Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker and Senior Analyst, Asia Pacific at IDC Research. Lisa began her career as Equity Analyst at Marusan Securities in Tokyo. Lisa appears regularly in the media such as The New York Times, Business Week, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Reuters, BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, VentureBeat, PocketGamer, GamesIndustry, Channel News Asia, and more. She is based in the US but travels to Asia and Middle East regularly to give presentations at industry events and engage with companies and gamers.