Prof. Dr. Katja Nettesheim is the founder of _MEDIATE. Prior to launching her own company, Katja, a trained lawyer, gained professional experience for many years at Axel Springer SE. There she was active in the field of M&A, as well as working on the Managing Board of Hamburg’s regional newspapers. Previously, Katja had worked as a business consultant at The Boston Consulting Group for several years, mainly in the media and private equity practices. In the early stages of her career, she was an attorney for international tax and corporate law at Freshfields and Shearman & Sterling, among others. An expert in the fields of digital transformation, strategic business development and investments/M&A, she is also a professor of digital media management at Steinbeis-Hochschule, School of Management and Innovation. Furthermore, she holds several supervisory and advisory seats and regularly writes columns for business publications.