Fluent in English and German, with international experience across Europe, South Africa, North America, and Asia.
Speaker, presenter, and panelist on Information Security, AI, Privacy, and Business Continuity at conferences in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
Over 30 years of industry experience leading business development for InfoSec and BCM portfolios, with thousands of audits delivered—including Fortune 500 companies and major cloud datacenters.
PMP-certified with strong cloud security compliance background; excels at managing high-value projects across budget, schedule, and quality.
Specialties include Information Security in cloud environments, Privacy Management Systems, managing field-based organizations, customer success, and third-party assessments (NIST CSF, ISO 22301, ISO 27701, ISO 27018/27017/27001, ISO 20000, ISO 9001).
- IIOA — Representative at ISO committees (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC27, SC42; ISO/TC 279): December 2021 – Present
- SGS — Global Head of Strategy & Business Development, Information Security Assurance: September 2021 – October 2025
- BSI — Global Head of InfoSec, Privacy & Business Continuity: November 2019 – September 2021
- BSI — Global Product Champion, Information Resilience: March 2019 – November 2019
- BSI — Senior Manager, Global Accounts: April 2016 – March 2019
- BSI — Assistant Vice President: January 2014 – April 2016
- BSI — Regional Senior Operations Assistant: July 2012 – December 2013
- BSI — Client Manager: October 2006 – July 2012
- 27K Security Summit / Certified InfoSec Conference — Board Member: November 2015 – November 2018
- TÜV Rheinland of N.A. — Lead Auditor: June 1998 – October 2006
- TÜV Rheinland Quality Services (South Africa) — Quality Systems Lead Auditor: 1995 – 1998
- Egon Nesper GmbH & Co. KG — Quality Management Representative: 1991 – 1995
- Systel Datentechnik GmbH — Software Developer: 1989 – 1991
- GFR Gesellschaft für Rationalisierung mbH — Software Development: 1986 – 1989
