Board of Directors
Currently, 15 members serve on the Board of Directors on a voluntary basis.
Dr. Carolin Reese
Deputy Chairwoman,
Director of Compliance at Zalando SE
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 completing her doctorate, she initially worked as a lawyer at Linklaters before joining Zalando in 2015. In addition to her group-wide responsibility for compliance and the specialist topics of her teams, she is particularly involved in automation in the area of governance.
Dr. Stephan Bühler
General Counsel at SGL Carbon
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. He moved to SGL on June 1, 2013 after 21 years at Siemens AG.
Dr. Bühler had held various positions at Siemens AG since 1992 prior to his move. Among other things, he provided legal support to various industrial divisions in Erlangen, headed the legal department responsible for Siemens Financial Services Munich and financial law for 5 years and the M&A team in Paris for 3 years. The last years he was 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 the Siemens Group worldwide. Immediately prior to his move, he held the position of General Counsel Legal and Compliance of the Customer Services Division of the Industry Sector in Erlangen.
Heike Deters
Head of Corporate Integrity & Chief Compliance Officer at Vodafone GmbH
Heike Deters has many years of international leadership and compliance experience in globally operating corporations. After starting her career in international tax law, she shifted her professional focus to compliance, data protection, and integrated governance issues. As part of her work for the Bayer Group, she spent several years in Hong Kong and Beijing. After returning to Germany, she was responsible for establishing the global compliance and data protection management system at Covestro, as well as for Legal Operations. Since July 2024, Heike Deters has been Head of Corporate Integrity and Chief Compliance Officer at Vodafone GmbH.
Georg Gößwein LL.M.
Founder of PLLOB Compliance GmbH
Lawyer Georg Gößwein, LL.M. is arbitrator, mediator, systemic organizational developmentand member of the DICO Board of Directors. In 2019, after around 20 years in-house at the mechanical and plant engineering, PLLOB Compliance GmbH. It advises and supports companies take strategic and operative with the systemic Development their Organization in the Regarding on resource-saving, culture-forming and sustainable effective (Compliance/ESG) Management Systems. Thereby served them itself in particular the Decisionheuristic PLLOB®. Sustainable (Self-) Guidance becomes so rather values- as rule-based in the DNA the Organization planted. 2016 initiated George Gößwein the DICO working group “Compliance as Management task”, whose Co-leader he is. George Gößwein published reregular on the Area the Compliance and good Corporate management.
Dr. Sofia Halfmann
Attorney
Dr. Sofia Halfmann has been a practicing lawyer in Munich since January 1, 2026. Prior to this, she worked for 12 years as Senior Vice President, Compliance and Export Control Officer for DHL Global Forwarding, Freight in Bonn. Before joining DHL, she worked for various pharmaceutical companies in Karlsruhe, Munich, New Jersey/USA, and Berlin, most recently as Head of Group Compliance Office/Compliance Officer at Bayer AG in Leverkusen. Dr. Sofia Halfmann has published on compliance and export control and given numerous presentations. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of DICO e.V.
Dr. Stefan Heissner
Member of the Management Board of FTI Consulting EMEA and Germany
Dr. Stefan Heissner has been involved in fighting crime since the 1980s, particularly in the area of corruption and white-collar crime. Dr. Heissner, who holds a doctorate in economics, began his professional career in the police and criminal investigation service. After working for KPMG, EY and PwC, where he held management positions in forensics as a partner, Dr. Stefan Heissner has been a member of the management board of FTI Consulting in EMEA and Germany and Chair of Forensics & Litigation Consulting since summer 2024. Dr. Stefan Heissner regularly publishes on topics related to compliance and responsible corporate governance. Among other things, he comments on the criminal and fine provisions of the German Commercial Code (HGB) as well as standards for the design and auditing of risk and compliance management systems. He is a member of Atlantik-Brücke.
Silke Mainka
Country Head Ethics, Risk & Compliance at NOVARTIS
Silke Mainka is a lawyer and has been Country Legal Head Germany at Novartis since September 1, 2026. She has more than 25 years of international professional and management experience in the pharmaceutical industry. In various leadership roles, she was responsible for legal and compliance matters in Europe, the USA, and emerging markets, and supported companies in market environments characterized by demanding regulations and transformation processes. She also serves on various boards and supervisory bodies. She is a board member of the Voluntary Self-Regulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry (FSA) and has extensive experience in compliance, governance, and regulatory issues.
Dr. Iyad Nassif
In-house lawyer in the legal and compliance department of E.ON SE
Iyad Nassif studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In 2008, he completed his doctorate in the field of criminal law. After completing his legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Münster, Dr. Nassif began working as an (in-house) lawyer in the compliance department of AUDI AG (Ingolstadt) in 2009, before continuing his work as a lawyer/criminal defence lawyer at the law firm Thomas Deckers Wehnert Elsner (Düsseldorf) until 2016. Since 2016, Dr. Nassif has been employed as an (in-house) lawyer in the legal and compliance department of E.ON SE (Essen), where he advises on white-collar criminal law, anti-money laundering and fraud prevention, in particular anti-corruption. In 2018, he obtained the specialist lawyer title for criminal law and is a lecturer at the University of Regensburg for combating corruption.
Dr. Rita Pikó
Founding partner of the law firm Pikó Uhl Rechtsanwälte AG in Zurich
Dr. Rita Pikó is a founding partner of the law firm Pikó Uhl Rechtsanwälte AG in Zurich, which specializes in compliance and corporate governance. She has been advising on corporate compliance and corporate governance for 25 years and conducts internal investigations. She is admitted to the bar in Germany and Switzerland. She began her legal career in 1998 at Hengeler. In 2000, she moved to Celanese AG where she became Global Chief Compliance Officer, Risk Officer and Corporate Governance Officer. In 2009 she joined Clifford Chance and became self-employed in 2010. Rita Pikó lectures on compliance at various universities and has been a permanent lecturer for compliance in the “Excellence Program for Supervisory Boards” at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Frankfurt am Main since 2010. She studied law at the University of Constance and passed her second state examination in Baden-Württemberg. She holds a doctorate (Dr. jur.) from the University of Konstanz and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Exeter, Great Britain. Rita Pikó is co-editor and co-author of the reference book “Handbuch Corporate Compliance” (Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag, Basel, 2022).
Kathrin Reichert
Head of Legal & Compliance
of Finanz Informatik GmbH & Co.KG
Kathrin Reichert has been a licensed lawyer since 2005 and completed her compliance expertise academically in 2011 with an MBA specializing in corporate governance, risk and compliance. Since March 2022, she has been Head of Legal and Compliance at Finanz Informatik GmbH & Co KG, the central IT service provider and digitalization partner of the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe, and was additionally appointed Human Rights Officer by the management in December 2022.
Before Kathrin Reichert became General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Finanz Informatik, she worked as Head of Group Compliance at the listed company Talanx AG, the holding company of the international insurance group HDI. Until 2018, Kathrin Reichert worked for TUI AG, where she held various compliance roles, most recently as Head of Group Policy Management. This position followed her activities at the beginning of her professional career in 2010 in the M&A department of a legal department of the Lufthansa Group, law firm and association.
Nils Rospek
Head of Compliance Prevention/Investigations at Vonovia SE
Nils Rospek is a fully qualified lawyer and in-house counsel. For many years, his professional focus has been on compliance, data protection, and internal investigations. As Deputy Head of Compliance & Data Protection and Head of Compliance Prevention/Investigations at Vonovia SE, he is responsible for the further development of a risk-oriented compliance management system within a complex corporate environment. Previously, he worked as a Compliance Officer and Data Protection Officer, as well as a Compliance Manager at Schenker Deutschland AG and as a lawyer. In these roles, he focused particularly on establishing and developing compliance and governance structures.
Jan Schreiner
Vice President Risk & Compliance
in the TRATON Group
Jan Schreiner has been Vice President Risk & Compliance at the TRATON Group, the listed commercial vehicle business of the Volkswagen Group with brands such as Scania and MAN, since 2019. He is responsible for Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), including risk analysis and monitoring the effectiveness of the compliance management system. In addition, he is in charge of Group-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the Internal Control System (ICS). In this role, he was also significantly involved in various large transformation projects, such as a compliance monitorship (US DoJ), an IPO and the acquisition of a large US company, including post-merger integration. Previously, Jan Schreiner worked in a similar role at MAN SE since 2013, after spending his first 12 years at EY with international assignments in the USA and Singapore. Jan Schreiner holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and is also accredited as a Certified Internal Auditor (IIA). He has been active in various working groups at DICO since the early days, including five years as head of the working group.
Alexander Schröder
Global Head of Compliance Advisory at Schaeffler AG
As a proven expert in Governance, Risk and Compliance with 10 years of practical experience in auditing and consulting and 15 years of operational responsibility, Alexander Schröder has headed the Compliance Advisory department at Schaeffler AG in Herzogenaurach since 2025. Previously, he served as Chief Compliance Officer and Group Anti-Money Laundering Officer at ERGO Group AG in Düsseldorf from 2018 to 2024, and as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Axel Springer SE in Berlin, where he was responsible for Governance, Risk & Compliance from 2010 to 2017. Alexander Schröder began his career in 2002 as a specialist at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, where he worked at the Stuttgart, Munich, and Frankfurt am Main offices until his departure in 2010, primarily as an Associate Director in the Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Service. Alexander Schröder studied Food Technology and Business Administration in Munich.
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