CEO & Founder

Customer projects & challenges

• 2024 | Interim Commercial Contract- and License Manager for a global scientific research company
• 2023 | Interim Management for the IT purchasing department of a global operating company
• 2022 | Contract- and Licensemanagement at international companies in various industries
• 2021 | Commercial Contract Management Services for “the” No. 1 global IT management consulting company and its top-selling customers in Europe
• 2020 | Senior Contract Manager with international companies in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries.
• 2018 – 2020 | Strategic customer project in the field of autonomous driving at an international automotive supplier – contract negotiations with the leading global IT companies.
• 2017 – 2018 | Strategic customer project at an international automotive supplier, legal and commercial support of the IPO and spin-off of a business unit (carve-out of a business unit and spin-off); contract negotiations with all suppliers.
• 2012 – 2017 | Lead Legal Counsel for IT outsourcing projects at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) in the USA mainly for HPE’s corporate clients in the finance and manufacturing industry. Overall responsibility for the commercial and legal aspects of major IT projects.
• 2010 – 2011 | Legal advice in IT purchasing, IT outsourcing projects, contract negotiations with leading IT companies until the outsourcing of IT was completed.
• 2009 – 2010 | Legal Counsel for an international IT software manufacturer independent negotiation with the client’s major customers.
• since 2008 | Independent lawyer & specialist for information technology law in his own law firm in Munich.
• 2002 – 2008 | Senior Global Account Executive at SAP. Responsible for SAP’s most important customers.
• 2000 – 2002 | Senior Consultant IT Law and Security at SAP. Support of numerous international IT projects.

Certifications & Qualifications

• Specialist lawyer for information technology law.
• advisory council for negotiations for WCC (World Commerce and Contracting – formerly IACCM International Association for Contract & Commercial Management).
• Certified Contract & Commercial Management Expert (CCME) by WCC – Certificate No: 13103106.
• Certified Supplier Relationship Management Expert (SRME) by WCC – Certificate No: 03951348-01-WFWW.
• Studies “Contract Management: Building Relationships in Business” at the University of Southhampton.
• Admission to the bar in Germany 2008 (district of the Higher Regional Court of Munich Higher Regional Court of Munich.
• Traineeship at the Munich Higher Regional Court and in San Francisco with The Cartwright Law Firm, Inc. and Mary Alexander & Associates, P.C..
• Law studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich.

Publications

• E-Business projects – Why they fail and how to lead them to success
  (ISBN-13: 978-3898421959)
• Secure enterprise portals with SAP
  (ISBN-13: 978-3898422062)
• Internet-Selling – Integrated online sales solutions with SAP
  (ISBN-13: 978-3934358843)

Awards

Most Strategic Win for SAP

Other

• languages: German, English, French, Italian
• German and US citizen