Dr. Xenofon Kontargyris LL.M.

Serving as business partner global lead for Corporate Functions of Olympus assisting them in ensuring adherence to the company’s policies and standards on global data privacy, information security, risk and general compliance as well as the Olympus global code of conduct and business practice.

Legal counsel responsible for data protection compliance in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Primary areas of responsibility: - legal consulting on GDPR, other data protection laws and data privacy issues - knowledge management, communication, training and awareness on data protection and privacy laws - coordination of the company's network of data protection compliance experts across EMEA - alignment with the other compliance and legal teams at Olympus' HQs worldwide on data protection and privacy

Advising on and contributing to the development of digital payment solutions and banking applications, specializing on regulatory compliance and gap analysis. Particularly focusing on the data protection, privacy and information security aspects of the following EU regulatory frameworks of: - GDPR, - PSD II, - NIS Directive - and their respective national transpositions.

- Assisting in research, teaching and administrative activities of the Chair. - Responsible for organizing and/or co-teaching seminars and conferences in Hamburg or elsewhere. - Contributing to drafting of texts in English and German (commentaries, journal articles, coursebooks) with a special focus on EU and International law on the above issues. - Management of the Chair's knowledge database on the above areas of law

Licensed Greek attorney, member of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki. Fields of specialization: IT law, data protection and privacy, intellectual property rights, competition law, public procurement. Largely working with European and international law, as well as Greek and German national laws on the above areas.

Handling logistics for training sessions and user guides on software applications of DG INFSO of the European Commission. During my term, I had prepared and/or delivered on average 3 training sessions per month (along with accompanying books of guidelines) to in-house personnel or external users of such applications of the EC in English and French. Moreover, I had been acting as beta-tester for those systems before their official release.

In-house paralegal coordinator for this medium-sized software development firm in Greece. Main areas of focus: data protection and security, contract law, terms of use, procurement procedures before EU and UN bodies and agencies.

PhD on regulation of cloud computing technologies are handled under EU and US law. As an outcome of my analysis, I brought together a set of regulatory principles on the cloud as the minimum required for promoting efficient regulation of cloud technologies on a cross-jurisdictional basis.

Major in IP rights and competition regulation on the ICT market under EU law (critical analysis of the Microsoft vs. European Commission CJEU decision of 2007).

LLB in Greek, EU and International law.