About the Editors
Kai Jacob, a lawyer by education, joined SAP in 2008 and heads the Global Contract Management Services team since 2011.
In 2015, he assumed additional responsibility for Legal Information Management, aiming to support the digital transformation of the legal function. Kai joined IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management) in 2004, became a member of its Board of Directors in 2012, and since January 2014 has been serving as Officer and Vice Chair EMEA. Kai is a regular speaker at conferences and engaged in various round tables, boards, and initiatives in support of his vision of liquid legal.
Dr. Dierk Schindler is the head of Legal and Deal Management for Europe, Middle East & Africa and the head of Worldwide Contract Management and Services at NetApp, a leading data management company. He has transformed the legal department by combining legal and deal management including the development of a deal and case management application that supports the working processes and provides legal analytics. His teams have been awarded the “IACCM Global Innovation Award” in 2014 and 2015. Between 2009 and 2016, Dr. Schindler also served as a member of the
Board of NetApp Deutschland GmbH, an organization that has acquired top ranks in the Great Place to Work-ranking in 2014 and 2015. Dr. Schindler regularly presents both at business and peer group meetings and at various universities throughout Europe on the innovation of legal and the vision of liquid legal.
Dr. Roger Strathausen is a business consultant with expertise in leadership and legal strategy whose clients are multinational companies. He was previously a senior manager at Accenture and an employee at SAP. Dr. Strathausen lectured at the Technical University of Berlin, the Universities of Heidelberg and Kaiserslautern, and the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) where he promotes his vision of liquid legal. He took his PhD from Stanford University while on Fulbright and Stanford Fellowships and his MA from the University of TUbingen. His website is www.strathausen.com.