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Dr. Pietro Brambilla, LL.M.

Head of Digital Transformation Integrity and Legal Affairs
Weberstr. 272108 Rottenburg, Germany

Summary

Internationally savvy, value-driven, crisis-tested and results-oriented lawyer, legal operations professional, strategist, transformation leader and digital evangelist with recognized ability to drive change, ensure focused business delivery, manage departmental budget and attract, mentor and retain diverse, high-quality talent.

Characteristics of a forward thinker, change agent and self-motivator who thrives in fast changing environments. Successful career history comprising more than twenty years.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages

Work History

Head of Digital Transformation Integrity & Legal Affairs

Daimler AG
Stuttgart
09.2017 - 01.2022
  • Lead development and execution of digital strategy and road map, pushing digital transformation within Legal, Compliance, Privacy and Ethics organization. Combining global vision with local demands, steering digital project portfolio, priorities and budgets, ensuring exceptional user experience and global scalability of digital solutions.
  • Drive culture change and organizational transformation, innovation management and business unit innovation journey.
  • Digital Officer developing and operating divisional data and information governance program.
  • Business Information Security Officer owning business information security agenda for entire Legal, Compliance & Ethics organization.

Core Accomplishments

  • Build digital transformation practice from scratch to highly diverse and engaged team of 15+ colleagues.
  • Championed data driven culture by spearheading data analytics function and developing data science expertise within Integrity & Legal Affairs.
  • Developed target picture for leveraging new technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotic process automation and introduced it at scale into daily departmental business significantly increasing operational speed, quality and efficiency.
  • Operationalized innovation by establishing internal Legal, Compliance & Ethics innovation hub building on collaboration with Finance and HR departments to drive cross-functional solutions.
  • Advanced digital mindset of entire organization through several events and activities such as DigitalLife Day@IL 2018 (60 seconds summary on Youtube) to fully virtual events.

Head of Legal Desk & Corporate Secretary

Daimler North America Corporation
Park Ridge, New Jersey
08.2012 - 08.2017
  • Establish, lead and develop legal department and oversee delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities.
  • Responsible for management of all legal matters, including corporate governance, capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, investigations, antitrust, compliance, human resources, data privacy, procurement and regulatory affairs.
  • Coordinate and conduct various internal investigations in U.S., South America and South Africa.
  • Corporate Secretary to Board of Directors.
  • Direct legal operations and establish and implement departmental policies, objectives and procedures leveraging technical solutions to increase efficiencies and measure KPIs.

Core Accomplishments

  • Secured U.S. Supreme Court landmark jurisdiction ruling in 'Daimler v. Bauman'.
  • Successfully achieved dismissal of 100+ billion USD Alien Tort Statute class action.
  • Initiated and led restructuring and repositioning of holding company improving corporate governance and mitigating risks.
  • Reduced regional subsidiary portfolio by over 30% and streamlined subsidiary management administration process resulting in increased efficiency and data quality.
  • Developed and implemented regional technology strategy for information governance, records management, eDiscovery and electronic billing.

Senior Counsel US Litigation, Discovery, Global Litigation

Daimler AG
Sindelfingen
01.2007 - 07.2012

Counsel Product Litigation

Daimler AG
Sindelfingen
02.2002 - 12.2006

Lawyer

Dillon, Hall & Lungershausen, Attorneys At Law
Stuttgart
09.2000 - 10.2001

Education

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Master of Laws in U.S. Law (LL.M.)
01.2016 - 12.2016

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PhD in law (Dr. jur.)
08.1996 - 01.2004

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Legal Clerkship
09.1998 - 04.2000

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Legal Studies
09.1991 - 01.1996

Skills

Agile

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Publications and Interviews

Timeline

Head of Digital Transformation Integrity & Legal Affairs

Daimler AG
09.2017 - 01.2022

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Master of Laws in U.S. Law (LL.M.)
01.2016 - 12.2016

Head of Legal Desk & Corporate Secretary

Daimler North America Corporation
08.2012 - 08.2017

Senior Counsel US Litigation, Discovery, Global Litigation

Daimler AG
01.2007 - 07.2012

Counsel Product Litigation

Daimler AG
02.2002 - 12.2006

Lawyer

Dillon, Hall & Lungershausen, Attorneys At Law
09.2000 - 10.2001

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Legal Clerkship
09.1998 - 04.2000

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PhD in law (Dr. jur.)
08.1996 - 01.2004

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Legal Studies
09.1991 - 01.1996
Dr. Pietro Brambilla, LL.M.Head of Digital Transformation Integrity and Legal Affairs