Download Stig Marthinsen holds a MBA in International Marketing. He has

Stig Marthinsen holds a MBA in International Marketing. He has since more than a decade worked in
the field of developing and fostering Internet services across Europe, including the first web service of
the European Commission - I*M Europe. Mr Marthinsen has previously worked for the European
Commission's DG Information Society on internet policies and supporting the market to establish new
digital content ventures, in particular those harvesting public sector information. His involvement in
legal publishing started in 2003 when the need for Caselex was identified. Currently he is partner in
Yellow Perfection s.a.r.l. and business developer for Retriever Norge AS, a company in the Schibsted
Group.
Marc de Vries holds degrees in business economics and Dutch law. Before being detached to the
European Commission in Luxemburg as an external advisor in the area of ICT and law from 19962000, he worked as a litigation lawyer at de Brauw Blackstone Westbroek attorneys in The Hague the
Netherlands from 1992. After returning to the Netherlands in 2001 he co-established ZENC, a The
Hague based and currently mid-size, consultancy company working for national and international
governmental organizations. Mr de Vries is also connected to the University of Tilburg as a fellow
senior researcher. In that context he has published numerous articles and books on ICT and law, in
particular on access and exploitation of public sector information
Gérard Sabater
Former Bar President of the Bar Association of Draguignan
Member of the Bar Council
Honorary President of the ANAAFA
Representative of the Conseil National des Barreaux
Member of the steering committee on electronic communication of the French Ministry of Justice
Paul Timmers is Head of Unit for eGovernment in the European Commission, Directorate-General
Information Society & Media. Previously he was a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner
for Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen, responsible for the information society
(eEurope) and telecoms policy portfolio. He has also been deputy head of unit for electronic
commerce in the European Commission, involved in policy and programme development. He held
management positions in product marketing and software development in a large IT company and has
co-founded a software start-up.
Paul Timmers has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and
an MBA from Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. He has published on a range of topics,
including a book on electronic commerce strategies and business models. He has been a visiting
professor and lecturer at various universities and business schools
Dr. Wolfgang Heufler operates his law firm in Vienna since 1987 and is chairman of the IT-Board of
the Austrian Bar Association ÖRAK since 2000, he also represents the Bar in Austrias Trust Center for
secure digital signatures A-Trust His main interest is to ensure Austrian lawyers to be on the highest
standards in electronic communication, e-government applications and signature technologies . In
2004 the digital lawyer identity card with signature chip was introduced, in 2006 electronic document
archives will be presented. Dr. Heufler also teaches law in technical high schools in Vienna.