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About me

Motto: Always open minded, always good advices, always online, all days in all ways.
Philipp Kastes Geschäftsfoto

Hello, my name is Philipp Kaste and I live in the bustling metropolis of Berlin.

Current working topics #

IT & OrganizationData Protection
Data Mesh & Product ApplicationsData Protection Organization in the 4.0 Environment
Team and organizational developmentSubscription models & data protection-compliant consolidation
Data Democratization & BIg Data Product DevelopmentCookieless & Pseudonymization
ML & AI operational useAI regulation and delimitation of GDPR

Open for #

  • exchanges
write me an e-mail

Skills and experience #


You can count on me for… #

  • data protection, data innovation and why this doesn’t have to be a contradiction.
  • buzz words such as cookieless, data mesh, AI. A data strategy helps to identify success factors and implement them to promote business.
  • questions about data democratization and the accompanying organizational transformation.

Notable stations and projects #

Company wide data protection officer 2024-today

Appointed company data protection officer for Axel Springer Germany and all affiliated companies since May 2024.


noSSOamigo Program 2019-2024

5-year, strategic-technical program for data protection-compliant processing of personal data in the media environment Axel Springer Germany.


DeepThought Big Data Platform 2019-today

Essay on a central big data lake platform including team building with various lakehouse parts for data de-omcratization and efficient KPI business control of German news media.


Central open source CMS platform 2014-2017

Transition and new development of a central web & CMS platform for all verticals (e.g. Books) and smaller news media (B.Z.) at Axel Springer Germany - open source based on Wordpress.


Social media transformation project 2010-2013

Project to develop customer flows via various social media channels (Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram) with brand and content development in a Web 2.0 infrastructure. IPO of successful brands, e.g. Kräutergarten magazine: https://www.kraeutergarten-magazin.de/


Certificates #

GDDcert.EU betrieblicher Datenschutzbeauftragter

zertifiziert von GDD e.V.