Natalia Przystasz

Natalia Przystasz is the head of legal at Auka - the fastest-growing fintech company in EMEA according to Deloitte (2016) and the winner of the European Mobile Payments Platform of the Year (2017, 2018) by CFI magazine. Auka was also the first fintech to obtain a payment license under PSD1 and the first FSA-regulated company in the world to run 100% in the cloud (Google Cloud Platform). She began her career as a corporate lawyer, working in law firms such as CMS Cameron McKenna before becoming a legal counsel at tech startups which all turned global : AVSystem (IoT, M2M), Highsoft (data visualisation) and Auka (fintech). Natalia holds LLM in Intellectual Property Rights (first class) from Jagiellonian University and is currently working toward her second LLM in Information and Communication Technology Law from the University of Oslo. She also studied at University College London, BI Norwegian Business School, Sorbonne University and the Catholic University of America.