Andreas is the Associate General Counsel in Central Europe for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Jointly with a team of country counsels and legal counsels in 10 countries, he is overseeing the legal advisory in 30 countries in which HPE is acting either through a direct established presence with a total of over 7000 employees, or indirectly via its network of distributors and partners. Andreas has partnered with the senior leaders of the companies he has worked for throughout his 17 years of inhouse counsel career with Evonik, Celanese, AVEVA and HPE, leading global and regional legal teams to drive their development and acknowledged standing as trusted business advisors. Andreas has studied German and French law and has completed his master studies in European Law at the Europa Institute, all at the University of Saarbrücken, Saarland. Andreas is fluent in German, English and French. He is currently based in Stuttgart, Germany.