Meet the Team

Silvan Jongerius (FIP, CIPP/e, CIPT, TÜV Datenschutzbeauftragter) is the Managing Partner and Founder of TechGDPR and has led numerous data protection and security efforts in his previous roles as CTO and divisional CIO for multinational media educators.

He is a frequent speaker, consultant, and educator in GDPR, blockchain, innovation and technology and has been involved in many (technology) startup projects as founder, advisor, or mentor. In addition he is the founder and president of BerChain e.V., a non-profit promoting Blockchain in Berlin.

Silvan has over 13 years of senior leadership experience as country manager, managing director and CTO/CIO in corporate and startup environments and is a PRINCE2, NLP and ITIL v3 practitioner.

He has been awarded the Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) designation by the internationally acclaimed International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Aztrid Camarillo is a Junior Data Protection Consultant with a Master of Science in Political Science, Economics and Philosophy from the University of Hamburg (Germany).

She holds a certificate in IT Security Foundations in Compliance and GDPR Compliance in Essential training. Her work experience consists of handling data breaches, legal assessments of data subject rights, eDiscovery in litigation, Information Requests, writing and consulting in contracts such as DPA’s, ICA’s, BCR’s and awareness training in Data Protection. She has joined several conferences on Big Data and Ethics, as well as seminars on Data Protection Law, GDPR and Privacy.

Her previous educational and work experience background consists of a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Legal Studies along with her Paralegal Certification from California State University, Chico (California, USA), where she worked on criminal law and housing law, and awareness campaigns on legal rights.

Athina completed her Bachelor degree in Law in Greece and recently obtained a Master in Law (LLM) in Law and Technology from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Having attended two courses in data protection law during her LLM studies and having obtained a GDPR Compliance and DPO Certificate in Greece, she decided to engage herself professionally with the field and gain practical experience. Athina supports TechGDPR in consulting technology companies on how to be GDPR- compliant.

Vlad Nekrutenko (CIPP/e, CIPM, FIP) is a data privacy enthusiast and expert in GDPR compliance. He has his education background in law, studying European Law at Strasbourg University (France) and Public Administration Law at Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Ukraine).

He joins TechGDPR as a part-time consultant specialising in international data transfers and documentation review. Vlad also works as a legal network manager and privacy specialist at Legal Nodes, a legal marketplace for tech businesses. Jointly with three other privacy experts, in 2019 he co-founded Privacy HUB, an NGO focusing on promoting privacy culture and providing data protection education. Vlad is an author of the Privacy Handbook for Startups, which gives an overview of data privacy matters in the EU, the US, and Hong Kong.

Marcus Desouza (CIPP/E) is a specialist in GDPR compliance and an avid data privacy practitioner. He has a background in law, studying Law (LLB) at the University of Portsmouth (England).

Marcus has industry experience having worked at one of the world’s leading data privacy management technology companies for privacy and compliance management. In addition, he has also worked within the financial services sector focusing on data privacy compliance across a multitude of jurisdictions, with a specific focus on GDPR compliance.

Olga is French-Ukrainian, with more than 10 years professional experience as a broadcast journalist in a multicultural environment in a global company, where she saw at first-hand the effects of digitalisation and how this digital transition has enormous consequences, but also offers great opportunities.

For this reason she decided to expand her skillset regarding data protection and data management, to better compete in this growing sector that effects commerce, industry, and the wider world. She helps TechGDPR assist businesses, institutions and individuals be safe and protected online. Olga is also the creator and editor of TechGDPR’s weekly data protection digest.

Jörn Erbguth offers customised workshops as well as in depth project support. With his double background in computer science and law and being certified to work as a DPO (udis), he can support you with data protection by design and data protection impact assessments to ensure GDPR compliance for your blockchain ventures.

Jörn formerly worked as head of the IT department at juris GmbH and as CTO at Swisslex AG – the leading legal information systems in Germany and Switzerland. Currently he is pursuing a PhD on blockchain governance at the University of Geneva, lecturing at several Swiss universities and publishing in the domain of legal tech. He has been invited to the European Commission (Blockchain Observatory), the European Parliament and the German foreign office to discuss blockchain issues.

Jörn is a board member of the EDV-Gerichtstag, member of the ITU focus group on DLT (FGDLT) and a member of DIN SPEC 4997 Privacy by Blockchain Design.