Ivo Ivanov is chief operating officer of the DE-CIX Group AG and chief executive officer of DE-CIX Intl. He has more than 15 years of experience in the regulatory, legal, and commercial internet environment. Fluent in German, English, Russian, and Bulgarian, he graduated from a German business school in 1995 and holds two law degrees from the Universities of Sofia (Bulgaria) and Bonn (Germany). After graduation, he worked as a lawyer, with a focus on e-commerce law, IP law, telecommunications law, and data protection law.