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Data Privacy & Information Law
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Data Privacy & Information Law
“At the time of sensitive contractual negotiations with a future outsourcer, it was good and comfortable to be able to rely at any point of time on Jyn's legal sound expertise and commercial good sense.”
David Limos
Allianz"Working with Jyn is a great experience as he brings in excellent technical knowledge while putting humans at the centre. He deep dives into the real pain points, runs root cause analysis to then bring the best team together to solve it. Jyn is a trusted advisor to his clients and embraces cross-competency collaboration to find valid answers to their challenges. It's a very enriching experience working with Jyn.”
Laura Jacob
Partner at EY PAS“I approached Jyn in 2019 to teach core privacy management processes to the participants of the University of St. Gallen's Data Protection Officer (DPO-HSG) course, and he has been a permanent part of our lecture staff ever since. He manages to teach complex subjects such as privacy risk management in a way that combines the many practical lessons he learned during his years of serving as DPO in major corporations with deep insights into relevant privacy laws and regulations of a true subject matter expert. The participants of our course enjoy his enthusiasm as much as his hands-on approach to privacy management a lot and I'm more than happy to have him on board!”
Samir Aliyez
University of St. GallenExpertise
Jyn is an internationally recognised data and privacy law expert with over 20 years of experience in data privacy and information security law. He joined gunnercooke in Berlin, Germany, counselling his clients as a DPO Coach and advising them regarding all aspects of legal and regulatory requirements to successfully work with data.
He does so looking back at a successful career in various multinational corporations. Jyn joined gunnercooke from EY Law, where he was a partner and local practice group lead, also serving as Facebook’s Director for Privacy Policy for Europe working out of the social network’s headquarter office in Dublin. Before that, Jyn steered the global privacy efforts of Allianz SE, the German multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Munich, as their Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), having served as Deputy CPO and Head of the Employee Privacy division of Deutsche Bahn AG, a major multinational transportation and logistics group with nearly 300,000 employees worldwide. Before entering the corporate world back in 2010, he learnt his ropes as a lawyer first for 7 years at Noerr LLP in Munich, followed by a year as a visiting international attorney with Morrisson Foerster LLP in New York.
He studied law and earned his Ph.d. degree at the University of Freiburg and completed an additional masters degree in IT and telecommunications law at the Strathclyde University of Glasgow, UK.
Today, amongst various other engagements and parallel to being a gunnercooke partner and running his own start-up company, Jyn is an university lecturer on privacy law, an active participant to the global community of privacy professionals, a regular speaker, writer and editor of books and articles on the subject, a member of the scientific advisory board of the ZD, the leading German professional journal on data protection law, and a former member of the European advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
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