Project Lead

1st LoD/Change the Bank (CtB)

• Project leadership and control of a highly complex and extensive Change the Bank project focused 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 address audit findings in third-party management
• Ensuring and verifying banking 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 for deregistering the corresponding BaFin finding
• Coordination with stakeholders across the group for approval of deregistrations
• Preparation, support, and regular independent reporting of project status to the executive board and other C-level executives
• Introduction of agile (SCRUM) project management
• Support and guidance during a six-month RfP and POC process for a SaaS that will support third-party management at the exchange operator
• Support and guidance in implementing the SaaS
• Support and guidance in consolidating and integrating data from various source systems into the new SaaS

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

• Leading a team of 10 consultants, strategic support and content development 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 support for various publications, especially the “Transnational Security Report,” focusing on illicit financial flows and cybercrime
• Political advice and support for Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger

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

• Conference preparation, support in coordinating the KAS “Young Foreign Policy Makers” working group.

• Building the editorial team, editorial work, organizing marketing and trade show appearances, writing articles, planning issues, building, designing, and maintaining the website.
• Interim circulation: 6,000.