Nils Gerhardt is the Chief Technology Officer for Utimaco, a leading provider of cyber security solutions, and board member of the IoT M2M Council. Before joining Utimaco, Nils worked at Giesecke + Devrient in various executive management roles with regional and global responsibilities in Germany, Canada and the USA. As Chairman of the Board of GlobalPlatform, a global industry organization, Nils brought major companies together to define the standards for secure digital services and devices.