Stefan Engel-Flechsig
Managing Director & Genreal Counsel
Sonera SmartTrust GmbH

Stefan Engel-Flechsig is the Managing Director and General Counsel of Sonera SmartTrust GmbH in Sankt Augustin/Bonn, Germany. He established the company in Germany in Au-gust 1998.

Prior to joining SmartTrust, Mr. Engel-Flechsig was Senior Principal of the Office of Legal Framework for Media and New Services at the German Federal Ministry for Re-search and Technology. From the government's earliest considerations on a multimedia law in 1995 to passage of the final legislation in 1997, Mr. Engel-Flechsig was responsible for the conception of the overall law - the first comprehensive e-commerce legislation in the world - as well as elaboration of the specific areas of data privacy and digital signatures. In addition, during his tenure at the Ministry, Mr. Engel-Flechsig had wide-ranging responsibilities for research promotion in Eastern Europe, in the EU and at Germany's Max Planck Institute.

Mr. Engel-Flechsig has over 20 years specialized experiences in computer science and law, which he studied in Saarbrücken, Bonn, Cologne as well as in Melbourne. He passed the bar exams in Cologne and Düsseldorf. Subsequently, he served as a research assistant at Ger-many's premier research center, the GMD Research Center for Information Technology.

Mr. Engel-Flechsig is a widely published author in specialist information security, telecom-munications and law journals. His recent publication "Multimedia-Recht" ("Multimedia Law"), C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1998, has proved to be a key industry re-source in this rapidly evolving sector.

Among Mr. Engel-Flechsig's many speaking engagements for Sonera SmartTrust in the past year, he has made presentations at an EU Commission conference on the Green Paper on Public Sector Information, at Mobile Financial Services conferences in Stockholm and Lon-don; a Mobile Commerce Conference in Amsterdam, and at numerous other conferences and seminars in many countries.

Mr. Engel-Flechsig is the focal point for Radicchio - a worldwide initiative for secure wireless e-commerce.

Mr. Engel-Flechsig speaks German, English, French and Italian. He is married with three children and enjoys basketball, travelling, architecture and photography in his free time.