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Astrid Ackermann, LL.M.
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection, IT, business, intellectual property law and media law
- Many years of professional experience as a lawyer specializing in IT law and data protection
- LL.M. – Master of Laws, media law, Media Institute Mainz
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law) specialising in IT Law, Intellectual Property Law, Copyright and Media Law
- Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Chief Information Security Officer (cert)
- IT-Information-Security-Practitioner (ISACA)
- Project manager (IHK)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Astrid L.M. Bauer
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Legal clerkship at the Independent Centre for Data Protection in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and at the Berlin Commissioner for Data Security and Freedom of Information
- Work in a consultancy agency focusing on data protection and quality management
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), French (very good)
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Cornelius von Cramm
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection, intellectual property, copyright, media and press law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Many years of professional experience as a lawyer in the fields of intellectual property, copyright, media and press law
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), French (elementary)
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Christian Dürschmied
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Legal clerkship at district court of Starnberg (Baveria, Germany) and at the at the public prosecutor’s office of Munich
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Legal clerkship at the administrative court of Munich and at the government of upper Bavaria
- Doctoral training in the field of international and European data protection law
- Experience as a lawyer in an international law firm
- Experience as a lawyer in the field of IT law, data protection and contract law
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), French (elementary)
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Shobha Fitzke
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection law
- Experience as a lawyer in a large international law firm in the field of capital investment and insurance law
- Legal clerkship at the Danish Institute for Human Rights
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), Danish (business fluent), Spanish (elementary)
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Dr. Nils Christian Haag
Qualified lawyer, Member of the Executive Board
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Long-standing staff member at the Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Academic year in Rome at the “Universitá LUISS Guido Carli”
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Dissertation on the marketing of personal data in bonus systems (awarded the GDD German Association for Data Protection and Data Security academic prize)
- Co-author of the C.H. Beck publications “Münchener Anwaltshandbuch IT-Recht” (second edition) and “Betrieblicher Datenschutz” (forthcoming)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), Italian (fluent)
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Jana Heinze
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection law
- Legal clerkship at the regional court of Bielefeld and at the regional labour court Hamm (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
- Experience in the area of data protection in a city administration
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (fluent)
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Daniela Herdes
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection law
- Legal clerkship at the Regional Court and at the public prosecutor’s office in Berlin
- Legal clerkship at the German Parliament (Bundestag)
- Legal clerkship at the Legal Departments of an international pharmaceutical company
- Studies at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Languages: German (native speaker), Portuguese (native speaker), English (business fluent), Spanish (advanced)
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Dr. Klaus zu Hoene
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law, corporate criminal law and intellectual property law
- Many years of experience as a lawyer in a large international law firm in the field of intellectual property law/information technology as well as in a law firm specialising in intellectual property law
- Dissertation on moral rights in international private law with specific reference to the legal framework of the Internet
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Anti-money laundering officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Felix Hudy
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection, IT, copyright and media law
- Legal clerkship at the State Commissioner for Data Security and Freedom of Information Berlin
- Legal clerkship at a law firm specialised i.a. in privacy law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Many years of professional experience as a lawyer specializing in copyright, media and IT law
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Adrian Kerler, LL.B.
Information Law
- Studied law at the University of Leipzig, specialising in European and international law
- Bachelor in Information Law at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
- Data Protection Certification of the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
- Many years of professional experience in the field of data protection
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Marcus Kirsch, M.B.L., MSc.
Qualified lawyer, CISA, GCFE, GCFA, GNFA
- Key areas of practice in business, IT, data protection, employment and tax law
- Many years of work as a lawyer in the fields of business and IT law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law) specialising in IT Law
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (ISACA)
- GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
- GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
- GIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA)
- Project experience as a data protection auditor (De-Mail accreditation)
- Master of Business Law (M.B.L.) for Technological Enterprises, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus
- Master of Science (MSc.) Digital Forensics, Albstadt Sigmaringen University
- Author of the book „Datenschutz in Unternehmen“ and „Praxishandbuch Kundendatenschutz”, published by intersoft consulting services AG
- Co-author of the book „Rechtsmanagement im Unternehmen: Praxishandbuch Compliance”
- Several publications in professional journals on the subject of data protection
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Rebecca Kirsch
Qualified lawyer, GCFE
- Key areas of practice in data protection, IT and business law
- Many years as a lawyer in the fields of business and IT law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law) specialising in intellectual property law
- GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
- Master’s degree programme (M.Sc. Digital Forensics) at Albstadt Sigmaringen University
- IT compliance manager, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, ISACA Germany Chapter e.V.
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent
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Dr. jur. Thomas Langer
Qualified lawyer, Graduate social scientists
- Key areas of practice in IT, data protection and media law
- Many years of professional experience as attorney-at-law focusing on data protection and IT law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Extensive work experience as scientific head of a private legal research institute affiliated to the Ruhr University Bochum
- Dissertation about the visualization of law in schoolbooks
- Supervision of several research projects in the area of communication science, constitutional, European and international law
- Author of several monographs and publications in professional journals
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Matthias Lindner
Qualified lawyer, Commercial IT specialist, Authorised representative for intersoft consulting services
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Many years of work in independent legal practice
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- State examined business computing specialist, b.i.b. in Paderborn
- Finals project: Programming of an authorisation test in the framework of a role-based authorisation concept in Java for the IHK Gesellschaft für Informationsverarbeitung mbH (team work)
- Manager of recognised auditors ULD Gütesiegel (law and technology)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Melanie Ludolph
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT-security
- Legal clerkship at the ‘Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig Holstein’
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Legal clerkship at a law office with focus on intellectual property and copyright, right of free speech and general right of privacy
- Legal clerkship at a large international law firm with focus in IT-security and data protection
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Sara Maier
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in IT, data protection, intellectual property, competition and media law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Legal clerkship in the legal department of an internationally active media and mail-order company in the field of e-commerce
- Legal clerkship at the government of Lower Bavaria, Germany
- Experience in an international commercial law firm with focus on corporate law
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), Italian (elementary)
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Maximilian Mertin
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT security
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Legal clerkship at the public prosecution office at regional courts of Flensburg and of Kiel
- Professional experience as a legal adviser at an international provider for e-learning and coaching
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Cyber Security Practitioner (ISACA)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Christian Mommers
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection, IT, telecommunications, copyright and media law
- Assistant over several years to Prof. Dr Thomas Hoeren at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law, Münster
- Responsibility for several research projects in the field of IT law, Internet law, telecommunications law
- Bachellor’s degree program in information technology (Bachelor of Science), FOM University of Applied Science, Essen
- Complementary studies in the fields of media law, e-government and data protection law, German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Philipp Nastansky
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Experience in an international commercial law firm in the areas data protection law, IT law and in the field of intellectual and industrial property rights
- Legal clerkship at district court of Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) and at the public prosecutor’s office of Frankfurt a.M.
- Legal clerkship in an international commercial law firm in the area IT law
- Legal clerkship at a law firm specialised in privacy law in Capetown, South Africa
- Participation in the publication „comparative handbook: robotic technologies law“ (published by Larcier)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Bastian Oberst
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in IT and data protection law
- Legal clerkship in the legal department of a leading international IT and software company
- Professional experience at a law firm specialized in IT law and data protection
- Studies in Norway at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law
- Legal clerkship at the public prosecutor’s office and the local court in Stuttgart
- Specialized legal course in IT and data protection law
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Johann Rabbow
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in international law, EU-law, international private law, data protection and IT-security
- Legal clerkship in the department legal & compliance at a leading international pharmaceutical company
- Legal clerkship in the Senate Chancellery Hamburg
- Freelancer at an international American law firm
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), French (elementary)
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Katrin Rammo
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection, communications and IT law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Legal clerkship at the State Commission for the Protection of Data and Freedom of Information, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- Experience in project management, Marketing Services Eesti, Tallinn (Estonia)
- Academic year studying information science at the University of Tallinn
- Degree in jurisprudence from the University of Rostock in Germany
- Publications: “Police investigations of Facebook” and “Private use of the telephone, Internet and email at the workplace”, conference volume for the 2011 and 2012 autumn academy
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: Estonian (native speaker), German (fluent), English (business fluent), Russian (elementary)
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Christian Regnery, LL.M.
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection, IT, business, intellectual property law and media law
- Many years of professional experience as a lawyer specialising in IT law and data protection
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law) specialising in IT, Intellectual Property Law, Copyright and Media Law
- LL.M. – Master of Laws, intellectual property law and media law, Humboldt University in Berlin
- Master of Business Law (M.B.L.) in business law for technology companies, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus
- Recognised expert for IT products at the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD)
- Specialist author on data protection and IT compliance
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Lisa Rehkugler
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in IT, data protection and media law
- Experience as a lawyer in an international law firm in Spain in the field of corporate and labour law
- Professional experience in a law firm specializing in IT law, data protection and data security
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), French (fluent), Spanish (elementary)
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Tim-Oliver Ritz
Qualified lawyer, IT specialist
- Key areas of practice in data protection, IT and media law
- Extensive experience as general counsel in a software company, consulting in legal and technical issues
- Many years of work in independent legal practice
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) in information law from the Düsseldorf Law School
- Trained computer specialist for system integration
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Thomas Roeske
Data Protection Officer (TÜV)
- Key area of practice in data protection
- Many years of experience as a freelance data protection officer
- Specialist for organizational development
- Certified in project management ISO 21500
- Certified in quality management
- Certified Mediator
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Johannes Schmid
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT-security
- First state examination in Munich, Second state examination in Freiburg
- Legal clerkship at the district court and at the public prosecutor’s office of Freiburg
- Legal clerkship at a corporate law firm in Munich, legal field IT and Digital-Business
- Long-standing staff member at the Institute for Legal Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Stephan Schmidbauer
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in IT and data protection
- Legal clerkship at the administrative and regional courts of Regensburg, Bavaria
- Legal clerkship at the public prosecutor’s office of Regensburg in the department of commercial criminal law
- Many years of professional experience as a lawyer specializing in civil, contract, commercial, and data protection law
- Many years of professional experience as data protection officer in a company for IT services
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), Indonesian (elementary)
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Daniela Schott
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in in data protection, IT law, copyright and media law
- Rechtsanwältin (Attorney-at-law)
- Legal clerkship at the Marburg Regional Court and the Marburg Public Prosecutor’s Office
- Many years of business experience as an independent lawyer specialising in information technology and data protection law, general civil and contract law and copyright law
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Christoph Schwan
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Legal clerkship at law firms specialized in IT law and in commercial law in Freiburg and Kaiserslautern
- Many years of professional experience as legal counsel for an international payment provider and FinTech company with focus on contract and IT law as well as data protection while being part of the Global Privacy Team
- Specialist Law Course for IT Law
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), Polish (business fluent)
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Johanna Soetbeer, LL.M. (Norwich)
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in international and national data protection law, IT and media law as well as intellectual property law
- Law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, New York
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- New Media and IT Department of the Culture, Sport and Media Authority Hamburg
- Special Unit for Computer Crime at the Itzehoe State Prosecutor’s Office
- Studies in Spain at the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- IT compliance manager, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, ISACA Germany Chapter e.V.
- EuroPriSe Legal Expert, European Privacy Seal
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent), Spanish (good)
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Martin Steger
Auditor and Authorised Expert, Managing Director greeneagle certification GmbH
- Lead Auditor ISO 27001 and ISO 27001 based on IT-Grundschutz, ISO 22301, De-Mail, RESISCAN, IS revisor, IT-Sicherheitskatalog BNetzA i.V.m. ISO 27019, Smart Meter Gateway Administration, Secure CA Operation
- ITIL Foundation certificated
- Current key areas of practice: auditing in the fields of information security
- Transmission Technology degree from the Moscow Technical University of communications and informatics
- Qualification as system engineer (UNIX) at Siemens Nixdorf
- Many years of work in network and system administration as well as database development
- Many years of work as IT security officer for an insurance company
- Auditing of the first De-Mail provider (Mentana Claimsoft, T-Systems, Telekom Deutschland)
- Lecturer at the TÜV NORD Academy
- Publications on issues relating to information security (information security management systems, biometric procedures, WLAN and VoIP security)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (good), Russian (good)
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Yvonne Varl
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in data protection and IT law
- Legal clerkship at the public prosecutor’s office and the local court in Berlin
- Legal clerkship at a law firm specialised in data protection, IT-law, copyright and media law
- Experience in a law firm with focus on data protection capital markets law
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Stefan Vukusic
Qualified lawyer
- Study of Law at the University Hamburg
- First and Second Legal State Exam in Hamburg
- Legal Traineeship at the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, in a law firm specialising in data protection law and at the Hamburg District and Regional Court, among others
- Legal clerkship at the appellate court Hamburg
- Languages: German (native speaker), Serbian (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Simone Werth
IT Security Officer (TÜV),
Data Protection Officer (TÜV)
- Key areas of practice in IT, IT security and data protection
- Many years of work as chief information officer (CIO), software industry
- Specialist coordination of various software teams
- Project manager in the context of extensive software projects
- Training as software developer at the Siemens-Nixdorf Training Centre, Kiel
- Lotus Notes certification (CLP administration, PCLP development)
- Software development C++, Cobol, Java, Lotus Script
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (good)
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Tannaz Wiepert, LL.M. (Maastricht)
Qualified lawyer
- Key areas of practice in international and national data protection law, business and IT law
- Copyrights, Media and Press Law Division at the Lübeck Regional Court and in a law firm specialising in intellectual property law
- Experience in law firms in the fields of business and IT law
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), European Law School, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Publications: “A new chance for data protection? The EU data protection framework decision after the Treaty of Lisbon” (LL.M. dissertation); “Private use of the telephone, Internet and email at the workplace”, conference volume for the 2012 autumn academy of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science (DSRI)
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Stefan Winkel
Qualified lawyer
- Key area of practice in data protection
- Legal clerkship at the Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment and Rural Areas Schleswig-Holstein
- Legal clerkship in the legal department of an international games developer and publisher in Cologne
- Professional experience as legal counsel for an international games company
- Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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Ann-Karina Wrede, M.A.
Qualified lawyer, Master of Arts in IT management, Auditor, greeneagle certification GmbH
- Lead Auditor ISO 27001 and ISO 27001 auditor based on IT-Grundschutz, RESISCAN, IS revisor, IT-Sicherheitskatalog BNetzA i.V.m. ISO 27019, Smart Meter Gateway Administration
- Current key areas of practice: auditing in the fields of data protection and information security
- Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-law)
- Master of Arts in IT management
- EuroPriSe Legal and technical Expert (European Privacy Seal)
- Head of Experts for the seal of approval from the ULD (legal/technical)
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (business fluent)
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