Jonathan is Fleishman Hillard’s senior tech policy advisor in Brussels. He is an expert in technology policy relating to cloud computing, cyber security and artificial intelligence. He also has extensive experience in competition law policy in the EU and intellectual property.
Jonathan was until October 2021 a core member of the IBM’s Government and Regulatory Affairs team leading tech policy – cloud computing and cyber security in the EU. He was responsible for steering legislative and soft law initiatives from the Commission, handling relationships with European Institutions and EU member states – key legislative issues he has handled in recent years is the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, GDPR and relating Codes of Conduct that IBM is participating in.
Prior to taking on this role, Jonathan was a managing consultant in the IBM’s Strategic Change consulting practice in the public sector based in Belgium. Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led the EMEA internal knowledge management team, Jonathan was marketing director for a UK software company which pioneered the first eCommerce applications. In terms of public sector experience, for six years he was engaged by the UK FCO as Commercial Attache for the British Embassy in Vienna responsible for trade relations in the capital goods sector.