Jan Wendenburg

SERVICE FOCUS AREAS

• Secure Digital Workplace
• Mobile Security
• Multi Factor Authentication
• Digital Transformation
• Company Transformation
• Secure Infrastructures

INTERNATIONAL C-LEVEL EXPERTISE

Jan has worked in the IT industry throughout his entire career. At IBM he was responsible for global customers, Germany’s largest system integrator, working at various locations and managing hundreds of millions of euros in revenue. He then made a change to become the Managing Director of an international IT company. Then he managed the transformation of the company into an international venture capital fund with locations in Berlin, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.

At the same time he founded AuthentiDate International AG (Now Exceet Secure Solutions) in Düsseldorf, Germany’s first accredited certification service for timestamps and a leading IT security specialist. Additionally, he served as director at AuthentiDate Holding Corp (New York / NASDAQ). AuthentiDate was honored with the German Internet Award, and its highest endowment, in 2005 for its pioneering work in IT security. In 2011, he sold AuthentiDate International AG to exceet Group AG (Switzerland), supporting the company in its successful public listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. As the Senior VP and member of the Executive Commitee of exceet Group S.E., and CEO of AuthentiDate, he left the exceet Group to support other companies in making their own digital transformations.

As executive board member of XCOMpetence in FINTECH Group AG (Now FlatexDegiro AG), he built up the area of IT security consulting and restructured the FINTECH Labs in Berlin and Frankfurt in order to accelerate collaboration with leading Fintech start-ups. In 2016, he moved to certgate as CEO, driving certgate’s transformation to a “mobile IT security solution provider”. Today, certgate is serving more than 25,000 users at companies like SIEMENS, Deutsche Bahn, Volkswagen, Porsche, the International Atomic Energy Agency, many German federal ministries, the German Bundestag, the Office of the Federal President of Germany, and many others.

PUBLICATIONS

Variety of IT security and compliance publications, including “Digitale Signaturen in der Praxis” (Digital signatures in practice), “BankingClub” and “Compliance is key – believe it or die!” which appeared in the global best-seller, The FINTECH BOOK, Wiley Verlag, London.

LANGUAGES

• German (mother language)
• English