Project Lead

1st LoD/Change the Bank (CtB)

• Project management and control of a highly complex and extensive Change the Bank project focusing on third-party risk management
• Supervision and guidance of up to 15 qualified consultants in the project
• Definition and regular review of the status of required measures to remediate audit findings in third-party management
• Ensuring and reviewing banking regulatory compliance (BAIT, MaRisk, DORA, BSI Standards, ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, etc.) for both processes and all project artifacts
• Coordination of the validation of project artifacts with Internal Audit
• Support in mitigating identified deviations
• Preparation of documentation to deregister the corresponding finding with BaFin
• Coordination with stakeholders across the corporate group for approval of deregistrations
• Preparation, support, and regular independent reporting of project status to the board and other C-level executives
• Introduction of agile (SCRUM) project management
• Support of a six-month RfP and POC process for a SaaS solution to support third-party management in the exchange environment
• Support in the implementation of the SaaS
• Support in the consolidation and embedding of data from various source systems into the new SaaS

At secori, he contributes his practical experience and expertise primarily in Change the Bank projects within the First Line of Defence (1st LoD), with a focus on third-party and information risks.

• Leading a team of 10 consultants, providing strategic support and developing content for various international MSC conference formats (e.g., the Tana Forum, the MSC Core Group Meeting in Minsk, Belarus, or the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., USA)
• Project planning and content management of various publications, notably the “Transnational Security Report” with a focus on illicit financial flows and cybercrime
• Political advising and support for Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger

• Content preparation and advising the member of parliament: drafting parliamentary speeches, various presentations, and drafts of specialist articles
• Supporting committee work: Foreign Affairs Committee (regional focuses: Latin America, Turkey, Hungary) and Digital Agenda Committee
• In the Digital Agenda Committee: special focus on the rapporteur topic “Fintech”; preparation of numerous reports and presentations; networking in Berlin

• Preparation of conferences, support in coordinating the “Young Foreign Policy Makers Working Group” at KAS.

• Established the editorial team, editorial work, marketing organization, trade fair appearances, authoring articles, conceptual planning of issues, building, designing, and maintaining the web presence
• Interim circulation: 6,000