Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Founder | Compliance Consulting | AI Solutions | Financial Crime & Trade Compliance Expert I’m the founder of AITHEA GmbH, where we empower banks, corporates, and RegTech vendors to future-proof their compliance operations through AI-powered solutions, risk consulting, and process optimization. With over 16 years of experience across compliance strategy, financial crime prevention, and global trade regulations, I specialize in helping organizations turn complex regulatory challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation. My mission is to transform compliance into a strategic business driver—combining technology, leadership, and emotional intelligence to build smarter, more agile frameworks. I bring a unique blend of critical thinking, business acumen, and human-centered leadership, always asking the right questions to challenge norms, spark change, and deliver sustainable impact. I’m passionate about the future of compliance, digital transformation, and empowering ethical tech. 🔎 Let's connect if you're working on: -AI in compliance or RegTech -Risk assessment, sanctions, AML, or trade compliance -Transforming compliance operations or strategy Building tech solutions for complex regulatory landscapes Leading Compliance into Tomorrow – with clarity, courage, and innovation.
As an Entrepreneur with a focus on AI solutions for financial crime and trade compliance, I source innovative technologies to address client challenges. By implementing AI-powered solutions, I help my clients streamline their processes, resulting in significant reductions in compliance errors and improve operational efficiency.
Representing DISCAI as the exclusive Partner in the DACH region in a quest to revolutionise AML monitoring.
Following the merger of Accuity with LexisNexis Risk Solutions I joined the market planning team where I plan and drive the execution of strategic and commercial initiatives globally for the trade compliance solution suite. As Director of Market Planning for Trade Compliance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, I led the global market and commercial strategy for a rapidly evolving portfolio of compliance solutions, helping shape the future of international trade risk management. My role was both strategic and entrepreneurial—responsible not only for aligning product-market fit and go-to-market strategy, but also for securing investment and managing internal funding rounds to support new product innovation and scale-up. Trade Compliance Strategy: Defined vision and roadmap for export controls, sanctions, and supply chain compliance products. Market Opportunity: Identified growth areas and regional expansion potential through market and competitor analysis. Product Investment: Built business cases and managed internal funding rounds to support product development and global rollout. Go-to-Market Execution: Aligned product, sales, and marketing to drive adoption with clear messaging and customer-centric use cases. Customer Insight: Engaged clients and partners to validate needs and shape scalable, data-driven solutions. Thought Leadership and Key Note Speaker at industry events: Positioned LexisNexis as a trusted advisor through insights, events, and strategic partnerships and acted as the spokes person at industry leading events.
I focus on assessing emerging market verticals to ensure the best delivery and optimum utilization of Accuity's solutions for achieving excellence in aml, sanction compliance and export controls. With more than 15 years of experience in finance, banking and compliance I specialize in strategy, project management, subject matter expertise and solution engineering and provide advisory, internally as well as externally, in compliance related matters. Over the last 3 years I have helped international Air Cargo organisations to set a new standard in protecting their brand from reputational risk, minimize the risk of fines, penalties and prosecutions resulting from sanction breaches and unlock the code for new business opportunities by utilizing data and technology and automating trade compliance procedures. By gaining a deep understanding of, in particular operational, challenges resuting from regulatory requirements and linking those to the industries' very specific business processes I have been able to provide tailored concepts and designed solutions to many customers across various sectors. My philosophy continues to be "connect the dots where others can't".
As a senior compliance professional I advise international organisations on best practice in compliance related matters and help them to interpret international sanction, trade and export regulations into operational business practice. I have worked with a variety of project assignments across multiple industries helping corporates, financial institutions, insurers, Air Cargo companies and many more to achieve excellence in compliance procedures by utilizing data and technology. My philisophy is to "connect the dots where others can't".
Since I have specialised in international AML regulations and KYC practices back in 2015 (ICA Internaltional AML Compliance-level 6 diploma), I have helped banks, financial institutions and corporates across various industries to address their operational challenges by using technology and/or data. I thoroughly assess my clients processes, understand the challenges and requirements that result from rapid regulatory changes, challenge these with market leading best practices and provide guidance on how the use of technology can facilitate to mitigate not only these challenges but also minimize risk. I help my clients to improve the effectiviness of their AML and sanction compliance programs, cover audit requirements, and improve the efficency which reduces cost. My areas of expertise include KYC Onboarding and continuous account surveillance/screening for sanctions, screening of vendors, suppliers, employees, partnerships and 3rd parties against sanctions and embargos.
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services helps organizations around the world manage risk and compliance, and grow safely and profitably by providing software, expertise and services to help them make critical business decisions. As the Product Marketing Manager for Regulatory Reporting and GRC I am the link between Product, Sales and Marketing and ensure that we provide content to the market that really matters.