Kerem Beneton

I work on the regulatory layer that most organisations underestimate — the overlap between data protection, financial crime, emerging technology law and commercial contracting.

At Philip Morris International I moved from the Europe Region Legal team into Illicit Trade Prevention, where I built a regulatory tracker covering smoke-free product rules across more than thirty jurisdictions and deployed it into an AI agent to compress research turnaround. Alongside it, I assess e-commerce sellers for legal and commercial risk — unlawful sales without age verification, unauthorised listings, counterfeit distribution across marketplaces.

Before Switzerland, I handled privacy and GRC work at Jurcom in The Hague, financial-crime and FCA-facing compliance at Furness Insurance in London, and data-protection training and audits at Özyeğin University in Istanbul.

Academically I sit across three legal traditions — a Law & Technology degree from Padova (First Class Honours), an Erasmus semester at Granada, a dual LL.M at Fribourg, and a summer programme on financial development at Zhongnan University in Wuhan. CIPP/E and the ICA Certificate in Compliance are in progress.

Regulation isn't a brake. Done properly, it's the operating manual that lets a business deploy new technology, enter new markets and survive scrutiny.