About Emerald

Hello there! I'm a privacy and data protection specialist as well as an award-winning (former) entrepreneur, speaker and lecturer. Welcome to my blog. Here I talk about all things privacy, data protection, data ethics, business and leadership. I’m pretty excited about a lot of topics so please be open-minded as you browse my content.

A little bit about me.

Way back when, I founded privacy-tech company; Eurocomply for which I was very fortunate to win various awards such as European Young Innovator of the Year in 2017 and a 30 under 30 award. I founded Eurocomply after writing my master thesis on the GDPR in 2012. This started an exciting journey which took me around the world as an entrepreneur and speaker, and it hasn't stopped since.

Forbes named me as one of 100 European female founders to follow and I speak regularly at leading conferences such as TEDx and WomeninTech. I've been honoured to speak at institutions such as MIT Sloan and the European Parliament as well on privacy but also on closing the funding gap for female entrepreneurs. In 2021 I became a Marshall Memorial fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Currently, I'm continuing my executive education at Stanford Graduate School of Business. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Law (First-Class Honours), a Master's in E-Law and IP Law (First-Class Honours) and a Master's in Business Information Systems (First-Class Honours).