Stefanie Reichel
Spokeswoman
Stefanie Reichel joined the Executive Board of Vodafone Germany on April 1, 2020. As Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, she is in charge of Legal, Compliance and Corporate Security. With more than 20 years of experience, the law graduate is a proven expert in the fields of compliance, data protection and law. Prior to joining Vodafone Germany in July 2019, she was Group General Counsel and member of the Management Committee, heading Legal, Compliance, Data Protection and Anti-Fraud Management for Zurich Group in Germany. Prior to that, she was Chief Compliance Officer for five and a half years, responsible for the overarching compliance management system of ERGO Group AG companies in Germany and abroad. From 1999 to the end of 2011, she held various positions at Bankhaus HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, most recently as Global Head of Compliance, AML & Fraud Prevention with responsibility for the HSBC Trinkaus companies in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg.
Dr. Ruth Schorn, LL.M.
Deputy Spokeswoman
Ruth Schorn has been Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President Corporate Compliance of the KION Group in Frankfurt since March 2015. Since the end of 2018 she has been Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Linde Material Handling GmbH in Aschaffenburg and STILL GmbH, Hamburg, both subsidiaries of KION Group AG. After studying law in Cologne and studying law in Paris for two years, she spent 13 years in various functions for the energy supplier RWE, including 5 years as a political advisor in Brussels, later as Head of National Policy and finally several years as Chief Compliance Officer with responsibility for the entire RWE Group.
Markus Bamberger
Markus Bamberger is a lawyer and has been Head of Group-wide Compliance Management at Robert Bosch GmbH since April 2019. As Chief Compliance Officer, he reports directly to the board of management. Since 2020, he has also been responsible for information security and data protection at Bosch. Before starting at Bosch, Markus Bamberger was most recently Group Compliance Officer at the Merck Group and later additionally Head of Global Data Protection Management.
Prior to that, he spent 20 years at Merck in various functions and gained business experience both in the chemical sector and as Managing Director in Indonesia. He rounded off his professional experience with responsible functions in central departments (Environmental Protection, Regulatory and Legal). Markus Bamberger holds an MBA from Ashridge Management College in cooperation with London University.
Inken Brand
Inken Brand is in-house lawyer and Head of Corporate Compliance Office of the listed Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA („Dräger“) in Lübeck. Founded in 1889 in Lübeck, the family-owned company is now in its fifth generation and is a leading international medical and safety technology company with 50 of its own sales and service companies and is represented in over 190 countries. After studying law in Passau and Toulouse (1996-2002) and completing her legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Koblenz (2002-2004), Inken Brand joined the group legal department of Deutsche Lufthansa AG in Frankfurt a.M. in 2004 and primarily advised sales, customer relations, aviation security, revenue integrity and fraud prevention. Since 2006, she has focused on compliance tasks in the areas of distribution antitrust law and white-collar crime. In 2011, she returned to Lübeck to contribute and expand her experience in the development and implementation of compliance management systems in an international context at Dräger.
Dr. Stephan Bühler
Dr. Stephan Bühler has been General Counsel of SGL Carbon in Wiesbaden since July 1, 2013.
He was also appointed Chief Compliance Officer on May 1, 2014. On June 1, 2013, after 21 years with Siemens AG, he joined SGL.
Dr. Bühler has held various positions at Siemens AG since 1992. Among other things, he provided legal advice to various industrial sectors in Erlangen, led the legal department responsible for Siemens Financial Services Munich and finance law for five years and headed the M&A team in Paris for three years. In recent years he has been Chief Counsel M&A/Corporate in the central legal department of Siemens AG with teams in Erlangen and Munich. This department is responsible for all M&A activities (including venture capital, project ventures and transaction-related corporate law) of Siemens worldwide. Immediately before his move, he was General Counsel Legal and Compliance of the Customer Services Division of the Industry Sector in Erlangen.
Dr. Bühler was born in Stuttgart in 1964, lived in Africa during his childhood for almost a decade and completed his studies at the University of Constance, where he also obtained his doctorate in the area of the international debt crisis. He began his professional career as a consultant in the Federal Association of German Banks in Cologne in 1990, after obtaining his doctorate in the field of the international debt crisis at the University of Constance.
Dr. Konstantin von Busekist
Dr. Konstantin von Busekist is a partner and location manager at KPMG Law in Cologne. Within KPMG Law he heads the practice group „Compliance & Investigations“ with more than 20 lawyers and thus has access to colleagues specialized in different areas of law.
Dr. von Busekist coordinates the activities of the global KPMG Law network with regard to compliance consulting. Among other things, he holds a lectureship in corporate law, corporate governance and compliance at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Prof. Dr. Alfred Dierlamm
Alfred Dierlamm studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Trier. After his studies he worked as a research assistant at the chair of the criminal law professor Prof. Dr. Krey at the University of Trier from 1991 to 1993. In 1993 he completed his doctoral studies in the field of criminal procedural law. In 1994, Alfred Dierlamm began his legal practice specializing in commercial criminal law with the law firm Redeker Sellner Dahs in Bonn. In 1999, he founded the law firm DIERLAMM Rechtsanwälte, which today is one of the leading law firms in Germany in the area of white-collar crime law. Alfred Dierlamm has held an honorary professorship at the University of Trier for white-collar and fiscal criminal law since 2010. He advises in particular on the interfaces between criminal law and compliance. He has been a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the German Federal Bar Association since 2006. Alfred Dierlamm was – to a certain extent starting with the birth of DICO – chairman of the DICO Working Group Criminal Law from 2012 to 2020.
Birgit Galley
Birgit Galley studied business administration at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin with a focus on law and has been working in the field of corruption testing since the early 1990s. As a Certified Fraud Examiner, she also specializes in investigative examinations in an international context.
In her function as Director of the School GRC, she is responsible for the training courses for MBA, Certified Compliance Expert (CCE), Certified Investigation Expert (CIE) and Master of Criminalistics.
As Managing Director of Forensic Management GmbH, she has been advising companies in various industries since the mid-1990s both in the repressive processing of claims that have occurred and in preventive advice on setting up suitable compliance structures.
Ms. Galley is also a member of the supervisory board of a Berlin state-owned housing company and chairman of the supervisory board of two housing cooperatives. From January 2011 to December 2012 she was a partner at KPMG AG in Berlin for Forensic.
Georg Gößwein LL.M.
Georg Gößwein is a lawyer and studied law at the LMU Würzburg and LMU Munich and earned his LL.M. at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He began his professional career at Zimmer AG in Frankfurt as Head of Legal and Patents and Compliance Officer. Mr. Gößwein then moved to KHS AG in Dortmund, where he was Head of Legal and Patents and CCO. Most recently, Mr. Gößwein was General Counsel at Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG, with approximately five years as „Tognum AG“ listed in the M-Dax.
Mr. Gößwein has been a member of the VDMA Legal Committee since 1998, from 10/02 – 10/14 as Chairman, and a member of the BDI Legal Committee since 2002, where he was a member of the Board of Management for almost ten years. In 2003 he was a founding member of the VDMA Compliance Management working group and held the joint chairmanship until the end of 2014. In the area of compliance in particular, Mr. Gößwein has published several articles, among others on different models of compliance organizations, on the importance of the compliance culture in the company and most recently on the FCPA, UK-Bribary Act and the German Penal Code with regard to relevant regulations. Mr. Gößwein is a founding member of DICO – Deutsches Institut für Compliance e. V.
Dr. Sofia Halfmann
Sofia Halfmann is a lawyer and Senior Vice President Compliance and Export Control Officer for DHL Global Forwarding, Freight in Bonn. Prior to joining DHL, she worked for various pharmaceutical companies in Karlsruhe, Munich, New Jersey/USA and Berlin, most recently at Bayer AG in Leverkusen as a Head of Group Compliance Office/Compliance Officer. Sofia Halfmann has published on the subject of compliance and export control and has given various presentations. She has been a member of the Women in Compliance Awards jury since 2015.
Dr. Stefan Heissner
Dr. Stefan Heissner has been involved in crime fighting since the 1980s, especially in the field of corruption and white-collar crime.
He began his professional career in the police service. After working for 15 years as a police and criminal investigation officer and completing a degree in economics, Dr. Stefan Heissner switched to auditing and consulting in 1998. Here he initially worked for KPMG in the field of forensics and was admitted to their partnership in 2003. He completed his doctorate in 2001 with a dissertation in behavioral economics on combating white-collar crime.
In 2006, he joined the partnership of EY (formerly Ernst & Young), where he initially led the forensics and compliance advisory practice in Germany and later beyond in EMEIA. Most recently, he also accompanied the Global Markets Leader role for the Forensics & Integrity Services advisory practice in EY’s global Assurance Leadership Team. In February 2022, Dr. Stefan Heissner joined the partnership of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he took over the global as well as the EMEA leadership of PwC’s Forensic Services.
Dr. Carolin Reese
Carolin Reese is Director of Compliance at Zalando SE, where she is responsible for Compliance & Business Ethics, Anti-Money-Laundering and the Customs Competence Center. She is a lecturer for Compliance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Carolin Reese is also on the advisory board of Corporate Compliance Zeitschrift (CCZ). After studying law in Paris and Cologne and earning her doctorate, she initially worked as a lawyer at Linklaters before joining Zalando in 2015. There, in addition to group-wide responsibility for compliance and the specialist topics of her teams, she is particularly involved with automation in the governance area.
Dr. Anita Schieffer
Anita Schieffer began her career as a lawyer in the legal department of Siemens AG in international contract law and IT law. In 2008, she moved to the Compliance Department and was involved in the implementation of the Siemens Compliance System. From 2012 to April 2018, she held various management positions in the Siemens compliance organization, including antitrust compliance and anti-money laundering.
From May 2018 to December 2019, as a partner at Pohlmann & Company, she advised international clients on the implementation of compliance systems, on internal investigations and a DOJ monitorship. Since January 2020, Ms. Schieffer has been Chief Compliance Officer at Siemens Energy, a spin-off of Siemens AG.
Alexander Schröder
Alexander Schröder, born 1973 in Wiesbaden, studied food technology and business administration in Munich.
In 2002, he joined KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft as a specialist employee, where he worked primarily in the area of Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Service at the Stuttgart, Munich and Frankfurt am Main locations until his departure in 2010. From 2010-2017, Mr. Schröder was Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Axel Springer SE in Berlin, where he was Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance. Since 2018, Mr Schröder has been responsible for Compliance at ERGO Group AG in Düsseldorf as Chief Compliance Officer.
Alexander Schröder has been dealing with national and international issues in the field of corporate governance for over 18 years and has extensive practical experience in the industrial, financial and public sectors, both on the advisory and on the application side. It pays particular attention to the integration of the individual elements of internal monitoring, such as risk and compliance management, internal control system and internal audit.