Stefan Braun is senior legal counsel at LEONI Bordnetz-Systeme GmbH in Kitzingen. Stefan is involved in the legal contract support for all IT and IP related automotive development projects of LEONI, a tier one supplier for wiring harness systems for automotive production in Germany and worldwide. Stefan has 20 years of experience in IP law cases. Starting his career in 2001 in a domain trading and trademarks consultancy company and 9 years in a law firm as expert lawyer for information technology law, from 2009 to 2019 he worked in his role as legal counsel for Wincor Nixdorf and later general counsel EMEA of Diebold Nixdorf, a global banking and retail solution provider for ATM’s and POS system. In these roles, he gained deep knowledge and wide experience in legal support for various scales of international IT and IP related deals on both sides of distribution and purchasing.