Main fields of activity
- Data law and Data Act
- Data protection law
- Digitalisation/Industry 4.0
- Digitalisation in the public sector
- IT law
- AI – Artificial Intelligence
- Outsourcing and cloud computing
- Project and agile contract design
- Data centre contracts
- Software licence, transfer and maintenance contracts
Career
| 1988-1994 | Universities of Cologne and Lausanne |
| 1994-1997 | Legal clerkship in the Higher Regional Court district of Cologne |
| 2000 | Doctorate at the University of Cologne |
| 1997-2006 | Lawyer at a national law firm in Bonn |
| 2006-2018 | Lawyer at Rödl & Partner in Nuremberg |
| 2018-2020 | Lawyer at Ebner Stolz in Cologne |
| since 2020 | Lawyer at Ganteführer, Marquardt & Partner |
Industries
- Automotive industry
- Construction industry
- Chemical and pharmaceutical industry
- Retail and wholesale trade
- Electrical industry
- Energy supply
- Finance (banks, insurance companies)
- Health and social services
- Information technology (IT and digital economy)
- Mechanical and plant engineering
- Public sector
Publications (selection)
- Requirement matrices as a challenge for AI compliance – illustrated using the example of emotion recognition systems and biometric categorisation systems, ITRB 2025, 16-21
- The new AI Regulation – Part 2 – Requirements for AI systems and AI models, recommendations for practical implementation, ITRB 2024, 290-298
- The new AI Regulation – Part 1 – Overview of the system, concept, governance and terminology, ITRB 2024, 264-269
- Processing of training, test and validation data in accordance with AI Regulation, Data Act and GDPR – Overview of the interaction between the regulations governing the processing of training, test and validation data, ITRB 2023, 211-215
- Business continuity when using business-critical data in the cloud – Requirements for contract design to secure data rights, CR 2021, 217-225
- Data protection-compliant design of AI – basics and tips for implementation in practice, ITRB 2019, 262-267
- The GDPR as an essential component of service specifications and contract design for IT projects, Fischer/Hoppen/Wimmers, DGRI Handbuch 2018, p. 60
- Order processing sample contract 7.2, Redeker, Handbuch der IT-Verträge, 41. edition 06.2020
- E-commerce and distance selling law, § 26 in: Auer-Reinsdorff/Conrad, Handbuch IT- und Datenschutzrecht, 3. edition, 2019
- Information Obligations, Part III, Forgo/Helfrich/Schneider, Betrieblicher Datenschutz, 3. edition, 2019
- Customer data protection, address trading and direct marketing, Part XI, Chapter 1 in: Forgo/Helfrich/Schneider, Betrieblicher Datenschutz, 3. edition, 2019
- Application Service Providing/SaaS (Cloud), § 14, Commentary with co-author Iris Argyriadou in: Intveen/Gennen/Karger, Handbuch des Softwarerechts, 1. edition, 2018
- Order processing, joint control and small group privilege, ITRB 2017, 282-285
- Data protection law admissibility of health apps, ITRB 2015, 114-120
- The new Cloud Computing Orientation Guide, Version 2.0, ITRB 2015, 169-172
Membership
- DAV – Executive Board of the German Bar Association
- DAV – Member of the DAV Information Law Committee
- davit – Chair of the IT Law Working Group of the German Bar Association
- DGRI – Member of the German Society for Law and Information Technology
- ITRB – Co-editor of IT-Rechtsberater, Otto Schmidt Verlag
- Member of the advisory board of it-sa – IT Security Trade Fair Nuremberg
Teaching
- Lecturer in the Information Technology Law course at DeutscheAnwaltAkademie
- since 2006 Lecturer at BeckAkademie in the field of IT law
- Regular speaker at the it-sa in Nuremberg since 2009
