Northern Data Group announced the appointment to its Group Executive Committee of Rudolf Haas as Group Chief Legal Officer. Rudolf will join the Group from 1 January 2024. Rudolf has a proven track record of navigating the intersection between law and business.

He joins Northern Data Group from King & Wood Mallesons, where he served as a Partner in its Frankfurt division, and as Managing Director for their German operation since 1997. Rudolf specializes in financing and capital markets, having been in private practice for over two decades. This expansion of the Group Executive Committee comes as Northern Data Group continues to take advantage of the market opportunities within each sector of its three companies: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers and Peak Mining, to drive progress in the AI, ML, and associated HPC industries.

With a strengthened Executive Committee, Northern Data Group is set to execute the next stage of its global strategy and take advantage of the strategic opportunities within the marketplace. Rudolf will lead the Group's legal strategy and its continued investments into the most sophisticated hardware available, as it drives innovation within the global HPC market. Rudolf has been a practising lawyer in Germany since 1997, having studied law at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Universität Regensburg and the University of Virginia School of Law.

In addition to his role at Northern Data Group, Rudolf is a lecturer at the Institute of Law and Finance at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, a position he has held for over a decade.