Germany 2019
General counsel | B. Braun Group
Volker Daum
General counsel | B. Braun Group
General counsel | B. Braun Group
General counsel | B. Braun Group
Volker Daum has been general counsel to B. Braun Group for five years and heads a team of 52 employees, most of which are based abroad, as well as an...
General counsel | B. Braun Group
With record revenues of €6.4bn in 2016, the B. Braun Group is in fantastic shape going into the future. This state of affairs is due in no small part to...
Dr Volker Daum has proved his value to B. Braun Melsungen time and again in the decade he has been with the company. Now general counsel of B. Braun Group, he is pursuing a technologically-focused approach in the company’s legal function. ‘Continuing engagement with digital resources has enabled more tech-oriented work processes to be adopted utilising agile methods’, he explains. ‘This optimisation of processes and introduction of new software and digital methods has been perhaps the most important internal improvement to the way the team works during my tenure’. Recently, Dr Daum has worked on the introduction of a self-assessment programme for compliance and has pursued an active patent lawsuit in the US. In addition he worked on the acquisition of an over-25% stake in Rhön Klinikum.
