Coach and Advisor: Strategic Consulting and business development to support digital transformationStrategic Consulting on Change Management ProjectsAdvising startups on the formation of corporations and business structures, Personal Coaching on Leadership skills in the digital AgePersonal Coaching on Gender Diversity an Inclusion

Law firm with focus on IT/Software/Media and business related topics.

Development and delivery of an open source based fully automated software management system for IOT applications. Development of an automated scanbased open source licensing service

We sold Xenia Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH as of February 2020 to Pinsent MasonsAt Xenia we were creating legal services of the future. Flexible, high-quality and transparent.Law: Pragmatic solutions ready to use.Digital: Use of technology to make legal services better, faster and less expensive.Human: Experienced lawyers deliver personalised support.Wir haben die Xenia Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH im Februar 2020 an Pinsent Masons verkauft.Bei Xenia entwickelten wir Rechtsberatung der Zukunft. Flexibel, hochwertig und transparent.Recht: Direkt umsetzbarer Rechtsrat.Digital: Nutzung von technische Tools, um besser, schneller und preiswerter zu sein.Mensch: Erfahrene Anwälte betreuen Sie persönlich.

Vice President and Associate General Counsel Microsoft EMEAR and Member of the Executive Board of Microsoft Western Europe.Areas of responsibility:Leading Microsoft’s European legal and compliance practice supporting a business delivering more than 20bn $ Revenue. Also Leading Microsoft’s EMEAR Public Affairs, Government Affairs and Corporate Social Activities. Leading a team of more than 100 professionals with multidisciplinary professional Background. Track record:Leading Microsoft’s privacy strategy for cloud offerings in Europe..Development and implementation of Microsofts top priority compete strategies in Europe (Google, Amazone, IBM)Leading Microsofts OSS compete strategy in Europe.Leading the process for the approval of an ISO cloud standard (ISO 27018) and the OpenXML Standard in EMEADevelopment of the regulatory and political concept for the Digital Dociety in Europe and positioning of Microsoft as a trusted advisor to the EU and European Governments.Establishment of a permanent round table on Cybersecurity with the Committee culture, science, education and media on Internet and Digital Society of the Council of Europe.Development of Microsoft’s Trust in the cloud marketing and business strategy.Leading Microsoft’s positioning in Europe in the context of the NSA/PRISM scandal.Establishment of Microsoft’s Policy Centers in Brussels and Berlin.Development and implementation of Microsofts Schlaumäuse engagement to support the development of linguistic skills in KindergardenChange Management Project realizing a 50% cost reduction of the legal counselling costs with significant efficiency increase of the departments ServiceProven track record in developping Microsofts next generation LCA Leaders

Associate General Counsel for Law and Corporate Affairs and Member of the Management Board of Microsoft Deutschland GmbH.I was leading a team of 11 professionals with different professional background. My responsibility was to lead Microsoft’s legal and compliance practice in Germany supporting a business delivering more than 3bn $. I was also in charge to lead Microsoft’s Public Affairs and social activities in Germany.Major projects and achievements: Restructuring and up-levelling of the German Team including the establishment of a Government Affairs practice in Berlin.Support of the EU antitrust investigation.Turnaround of the broken relationship with the German Government.Successful turnaround of the pro Open Source Strategy of the German GovernmentSuccessful shift within the company towards a more European/German policy and regulatory approach.Establishment and implementation of compliance tools and processes.

Restructuring of the companyDivestiture of the company in the course of the insolvency of KirchGroup

Several management and advisory board positions with KirchGroup, including Divisional Head of Legal and Government Affairs of KirchHolding GmbH & Co. KG, Divisional Head of Human Resources of KirchHolding GmbH & Co. KG, Member of the Advisory Board of KirchNewMedia AG,  Member of the Advisory Board of BetaResearch GmbH, Member of the Advisory Board of DF1.Track Record:Leading the Project of the group-wide restructuring project for the IPO of KirchGroup,Organization and management of KirchGroup’s lobbying activities including the establishment of a newly created team at the holdingCoordination and quality management of KirchGroup’s legal departments,Leading the antitrust and merger control proceedings of KirchGroup. Management of key projects such as Deutsche Telekom/Bertelsmann/Kirch digital pay television platform, acquisition of Premiere, acquisition of Formula 1licensing rights.Chief negotiator for the introduction of digital broadcasting with the media authorities,Leading the group-wide introduction of policies and processes for HR management KirchGroup,Establishment of a KirchGroup wide High Potential pool and development program

Responsible for Telecommunication, Postal Services, IP and Patents in the Internal Market and Information SocietyTrack record:Leading the development and the adoption process of the legal framework for the deregulation of the European Telecommunication markets, Handling of negotiations with the European Parliament and the Telecommunications Council regarding the legislative framework, Supervision of the subject area “Information Society” incl. the report "Europe and the Global Information Society" (“Bangemann Report”)Responsibility for several Internal Market initiatives such as the privacy directive, the harmonization of copyrights, harmonization of media concentration, liberalization of the postal services market

Expert for Internal Market and Intellectual Property Rights in the Cabinet of Commissioner Peter Schmidhuber.Areas of responsibility: - Counsel to the commissioner regarding Intellectual Property Rights, the European internal market system and rulings of the European Court of Justice.