Experience

Rating: 9.0 (Superb)

Work Experience

2021 - Present

Associate General Counsel, McKinsey & Company

2010 - 2020

Vice President, Infineon Technologies

2007 - 2010

Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2004 - 2007

Associate, Christie Parker & Hale LLP

2003 - 2003

Summer Associate, Christie Parker & Hale LLP

2003 - 2003

Summer Associate, Howrey LLP

2002 - 2002

Summer Associate, Bardehle

2001 - 2001

Software Engineer, Friendchip AG

1997 - 1998

Software Engineer, IABG GmbH

1995 - 1996

Programming Lab Help Desk, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

1991 - 1995

Student Programmmer, Siemens AG

1989 - 1990

Airman First Class, German Air Force

1986 - 1988

Student Programmer, Siemens AG

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Associations

2005 - Present

District of Columbia Bar

Member

2004 - Present

State Bar of California

Member

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Education

2004

Duke University School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

2000

University of California - Irvine

M.S.

1997

Technische Universitaet Munechen

Dipl.-Inform. Univ.

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Speaking Engagements

2019

Litigation Summit Litigating in the U.S.

2019

57th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law International Discovery in US Proceedings Under The Hague

2018

German-American Lawyers' Association Event

Panel Discussion about new German class action legislation

2016

German-American Lawyers' Association Event Litigation by German Companies in the USA

2016

12th Specialized Group Conference U.S. Litigation from an In-house Perspective

2015

Unternehmensjuristentage Litigation Reserves

2014

Litigation & ADR Summit 2014 Ten Tips on Litigating in the U.S.

2014

Event by the German-American Lawyers Association re the German Federal Ministry of Justice's pertinent proposal Should Germany withdraw its reservation under Article 23 of pre-trial discovery of documents under the The Hague Evidence Convention?

2005

Guest lecture in Computer Law at University of California, Irvine

Domain Name Dispute Resolution

2004

Guest lecture at W.H.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium/University of Southern California

Patents as a Business Model for Software Components

2003

Guest lecture in Technical and Social Analysis of the Internet/Duke University

Software Patents

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Publications

2023

In the Balance (the McKinsey legal blog) We should all feel privileged

2014

Unternehmensjurist Land of Infinite Litigation Possibilities

2009

Wake Forest Intellectual Property Law Journal The Death of State Street?

2008

SeekingAlpha.com Will the Next Banking Crisis Originate in Europe?

2006

Los Angeles Lawyer Unmasking Private Domain Name Registrations

2006

The Computer & Internet Lawyer Using Moxie to Pierce the Proxy: Unveiling Private Domain Name Registrations

2003

Duke Law and Technology Review Software Patent Law: United States and Europe Compared

2002

Duke Law and Technology Review Software Patents: What One-Click Buy And Safe Air Travel Have in Common

2002

IEEE Software How Software Patents Can Support COTS Component Business

2001

34th Hawai'i International Conference on Software Engineering xADL: Enabling Architecture-Centric Tool Integration With XML

2000

22nd International Conference on Software Engineering, 2nd Workshop on Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software Using Software Patents To Support The Business Model Of Software Components

2000

University of California, Irvine, School of Information and Computer Science, Technical Report An Architecture-Centered Approach To Software Environment Integration

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Languages

German

English

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