Dr. Alexander Schellong is Managing Director (GL ) of Cybersecurity at Schwarz digits, the 5th division of Europe’s largest retailer and fourth largest retailer in the world with offerings in Cloud, AI, retail media or Cybersecurity such as XM Cyber and STACKIT.

Alexander has extensive experience in strategic consulting, general management, business unit leadership and mission critical international project and operations management in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia for the U.S. government, German government, European Commission, and other commercial clients.

In 2019, Alexander founded the non-profit initiative CYBERWOMEN to support networking among and growth of female information security experts from student to CxO across Germany.

He studied and taught at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Harvard Kennedy School, The University of Tokyo, Tec de Monterrey, Brandt School of Public Policy, Zeppelin University, Salzburg Management Business School, and Stanford University.