Our Team

PROFESSOR SOPHIE STALLA-BOURDILLON

Professor Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon is Senior Privacy Counsel and Legal Engineer at Immuta where she lead the legal engineering team and holds the chair in Information Technology Law and Data Governance within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton. Sophie is the author of several legal articles and books on intermediary liability, data protection and privacy, information security and intellectual property. 

She has been involved in diverse research and consulting activities. She led the legal work conducted for the FP7 research project on operational trustworthiness enabling technologies (FP7 OPTET) examining the implications of a trustworthiness-by-design approach, for the Horizon 2020 FutureTrust research project on interoperability, electronic identification and trust services and for the Horizon 2020 innovation programme Data Pitch. Sophie has acted as an expert for the Organisation for the Cooperation and Security in Europe (in the field of intermediary liability) and for the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (in the field of data protection, research data and anonymisation). She was part of the expert group formed by the Council of Europe on intermediary liability MSI-NET (2016-2018).

She is Editor-in-chief of Editor of the Computer Law and Security Review, a leading international journal of technology law and practice providing a major platform for publication within the field of IT law and computer security.

DR Niko Tsakalakis

Niko is a data privacy expert, with a focus on data protection by design for emerging technologies. In the past, Niko has worked in creating the privacy-enhancing framework for the H2020 project FutureTrust, materialising the services for eID and Trust Services in the EU under the eIDAS Regulation, an ‘explainabality-by-design’ framework for AI and automated decisions for the EPSRC project PLEAD, and the Data Governance Framework for Mobility as a Service (MaaS) for the Petras project UMIS. Niko completed a PhD on enhancing data protection by design of electronic identification services, and holds an MSc in Web Science and an LLM in International and Commercial Dispute Resolution.

Alexsis Wintour

Alexsis has a strong track record of building successful businesses in the digital change space, primarily supporting organisations to adopt and leverage new technologies, often when there is a burning need, accompanied by tight timescales, and stiff competition.

She has grown up watching the data evolution and the start now of its revolution. She believes the world will widen its focus and demand the same oversight of managing data as it has in managing money.

She has been a Director on the first Bitcoin fund in the world, an advisor to government in skills development and is involved in a number of charities. Her prize-winning change projects have been shortlisted by the Chartered Management Institute, The Lawyer magazine, Institute of Directors, and the Training and Employment Partnership. s an award-winning academic psychologist, she believes that success is when people change and not just the business processes.