Profile banner
Pedro Merino

Pedro Merino

Building Norigen | Sec Engineer & Lawyer (PhD)

pedro-garcia
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined June 2026
Favicon imagese.linkedin.com
Favicon imagethehub.io

Network

2.5K connections

Summary

Multidisciplinary founder and operator: Pedro has founded and led startups (CropRising; later Norigen) and held CEO responsibilities, combining product and company leadership with a focus on tech-enabled solutions for agriculture and other domains. thehub
Lawyer-turned-security-engineer: His profile and roles show a transition from legal and academic work (PhD, LL.M., research roles) into security engineering and consulting positions across multiple companies.
Security and privacy practitioner: He has held multiple security engineering and security-advisory roles (Detectify, Nexer Group, Kivra, HiQ) and privacy leadership at TMF Group, indicating experience across security operations and GDPR-related privacy responsibilities.
Academic and legal research background: Pedro completed advanced legal studies including an LL.M. and a Ph.D. in international/private law and worked as a PhD candidate and research associate at the Max Planck Institute and at law firms.

Work

Education