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Kivanç Semen is co-founder and co-CEO of DataGuard, where he leads the Company’s product strategy. Kivanç’s educational background is rooted in Business Informatics (B.Sc.) and Industrial Engineering (M.Sc.), having studied at the prestigious Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and having further developed his passion for data protection and IT security at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. Kivanç has been a driving force behind data protection, IT security, and digital transformation for over a decade, having personally supervised more than 100 clients as a qualified Data Protection Officer (DEKRA). Kivanç has always been a tech enthusiast; he started his journey as a programmer and independent IT consultant at a young age. At 17, he founded his own consulting firm GEKES, and ever since 2010 he has been a technology entrepreneur.