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Emi G.EG

Emi G.

Technology Transactions & Digital Platform Advisor

€1,150/day
Brussels, BE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Emi

I am a Digital Transformation and Technology Transaction leader specializing in regulatory-resilient digital integrations and cross-border platform access across complex transaction environments. Over the past two decades, I have advised boards, executive committees, and transaction teams on deal-critical technology and operational decisions where regulatory oversight, digital resilience, platform dependencies, and third-party arrangements directly affect feasibility, valuation, restructuring, outsourcing, and post-closing continuity. My experience spans banking, asset management, insurance, payments, digital platforms, regulated crypto services, and infrastructure, advising institutions including BNP Paribas, New York Life Investment Management, AGEAS, ING Belgium, RMB Holdings, FirstRand, Standard Bank, Eurostar, Conduent, and digital exchanges.

I translate EU and UK regulatory frameworks—GDPR, DORA, NIS2, MiCA, and supervisory expectations—into actionable guidance for due diligence, carve-outs, integrations, and scale-up initiatives. I focus on whether compliance, governance, resilience, and platform access positions are realistically executable and can withstand audit and enforcement once a transaction is irreversible. My work addresses the interplay between cross-border data flows, digital market access, platform architecture, outsourcing concentration, and operational continuity under compressed timelines.

Having led technology assessments and integration strategies in rail mergers, asset management transactions, and digital platform expansions, I bring a pragmatic perspective bridging M&A execution with regulatory foresight. I operate at the intersection of technology, regulation, and transformation, ensuring transactions are structurally sound, operationally viable, resilient, and platform-access ready.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • KiXLaw
    Technology Transactions & Digital Platform Advisor | Digital Market Access & Platform Governance
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    January 2019 - Today (7 years and 5 months)
    Brussels, Belgium
    I advise on technology risk, regulatory strategy, and operating-model execution across mergers, restructurings, and digital platform environments, with a focus on whether data, third-party, resilience, and platform access positions are realistically executable under supervisory and enforcement constraints. My work sits at the intersection of transaction execution and platform governance, including cross-border data flows, algorithmic decision systems, and emerging AI-driven operating models.

    I prepare regulator-facing analyses that stress-test governance, operational resilience, and platform access assumptions ahead of supervisory engagement, supporting decisions involving EU and UK authorities such as the Belgian DPA, FSMA, ICO, FCA, and CMA. I focus on situations where customer-facing platforms, outsourced services, and automated decision processes directly determine market access, continuity, and valuation under compressed timelines.

    Alongside transaction mandates, I have developed hands-on experience in digital platform dynamics through a complex engagement involving account restriction, fund access, and automated decision-making within a cross-border freelance platform environment. This required reconstructing platform logic, analysing opaque risk and verification systems, and structuring evidence for regulatory escalation under GDPR and platform governance frameworks.

    This work has evolved into the design of AI-assisted workflows for document analysis, regulatory mapping, and decision support, enabling rapid synthesis of complex information and more consistent, structured outputs. I translate regulatory and platform complexity into practical systems—combining human judgment with AI tools—to support execution, challenge automated decisions, and enable more effective interaction with digital platforms and regulators.
    Cross-Border Regulatory Compliance Insurance Product Governance Embedded Finance & Insurtech Compliance GDPR & Data Protection in Insurance Regulatory Reporting & Risk Advisory
  • BlizManagement
    IT Governance, Risk & Transformation Advisor
    TECH
    January 2009 - January 2019 (10 years)
    I advised banks, asset managers, insurers, and regulated infrastructure operators on large-scale technology and operating-model transformations driven by regulatory change, equity events, and cross-border integration pressures. I was frequently engaged to assess whether complex transformation programmes were realistically executable within supervisory and resilience constraints, particularly where regulatory reforms materially reshaped governance, data, platform, and delivery expectations.

    I played a central role in defining and validating target operating models, helping leadership teams understand how governance, data quality, delivery assurance, and platform performance would affect post-integration stability, regulatory credibility, and transaction outcomes. I supported near-shoring and cross-border delivery decisions for banking clients, enabling time-critical trade-offs between efficiency and resilience without compromising supervisory expectations. My work routinely informed M&A decisions on integration readiness, operating-model resilience, and post-transaction continuity.
    Cross-Border Regulatory Compliance M&A Embedded Finance & Insurtech Compliance
  • Standard Bank Group
    QA Manager: Product, Process & IT Governance
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2006 - January 2009 (3 years)
    In a senior governance role within a systemically important bank, I led distributed, performance-critical teams providing assurance over global outsourcing, resilience, and control integrity. Operating within a regulatory-intensive environment, I assessed whether global outsourcing structures (MSAs, TSAs, SLAs) and control frameworks were robust under supervisory expectations. My work informed leadership decisions on operating-model design, risk allocation, and post-separation resilience in technology-enabled structural change initiatives.
    Corporate Governance Cross-Border Regulatory Compliance Due Diligence Risk Management Policy & Procedure

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Education

  • Bachelor of Science
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    Bachelor of Science: Applied Information Systems

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