The Data Protection Breakfast Club with Andy & Pedro

Employment lawyer to DoorDash privacy lead.  Not your typical path, but then again how many “typical” paths are there to anything?  Adam Rivera has had a career that has spanned consumer goods, tech providers in the legal and news space, financial services and now at a leading local commerce and tech company.  This variety has given him a broad privacy and legal frame that manifests...

Andrew Woods has a POV.  He’s not going to lob legal advice over a fence and walk away.  He will have a take and will be deeply engaged in the decision-making process.  Andrew was a law firm associate, founder/GC then an adtech lawyer at Turn.  Eventually he landed at Twitter and his role grew as the leader of the commercial legal for Twitter’s revenue products.  Recently...

Mark Cockerill is a lawyer who gets right to the point.  Frankly he doesn’t have time to waste!  He’s a busy dad of 3 and the site lead for ServiceNow’s active presence in Ireland, as well as an interest in American Football of all things.  His current remit covers a broad array of legal issues - but he also ran ServiceNow’s global privacy program for a number of years. The DPBC pod...

Shirley Paley sees the big picture.  She’s a strategic GC and leader covering companies with varied legal needs.  While her background is in IP she has a multifaceted legal leadership approach having served as GC at 2 very different companies.  Prior to those GC roles she was instrumental in the growth and eventual acquisition of Demandware by Salesforce which became Commerce Cloud....

The original “collaborator” CPO is Todd Ruback.  For years he has run a NYC based roundtable of top CPOs who can focus on real world privacy issues behind closed doors.  Todd dove deep into AdTech in 2012 as CPO/GC of Evidon/Ghostery the formative website cookie tool.  Since then Todd has led consulting groups at Promontory and now FTI. The DPBC podcast is a TechGC production. &nbsp...

Daniel Barber founded DataGrail in 2018 after a successful run in tech sales and biz dev.  Daniel came up in the early days of MarTech with Responsys, Datanyze, ToutApp and others.  DataGrail solves data privacy challenges with a host of integrations and DSR flow management tools.  Daniel recently announced that DataGrail raised a $45 Series C financing to propel further growth. The...

We’re joined by Omer Tene our friend from his IAPP days!  Omer is one of the leading data protection law and policy practitioners in the world.  Rarely does someone beat him to analysis of new laws or issues on Twitter.  He’s a must-follow and one of the top thinkers in our space!  And he’s got a great sense of humor to boot. The DPBC podcast is a TechGC production.  Learn...

Manas Mohapatra is one of those rare lawyers that can context shift quickly and not lose a step in legal and business analysis.  He led the early days Privacy Program at Twitter after some time with the FTC and a law firm. Following Twitter he was CPO at Viacom navigating a massive, matrixed media conglomerate. Eventually Manas moved to BNY focusing on commercial, privacy and payments/blockch...

Andy & Pedro speak with Alexandra Ebert, a Responsible AI, synthetic data & privacy expert who serves as Chief Trust Officer at MOSTLY AI. As a member of the company's executive leadership team, she is engaged in public policy issues in the emerging field of synthetic data and Ethical AI and is responsible for engaging with the privacy community, with regulators, the media, and with customers. The...

Our guest is Victoria Beckman, long time privacy and cyber lawyer who has seen it all.  She’s now leading the Digital Crimes Americas Team at Microsoft. Learn more about the community that helps General Counsels in their day to day, TechGC ( https://www.techgc.co/ ) Follow Andy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-dale-7705b83/  Follow TechGC on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.co...

Manuel Martinez-Herrera is GC and Exec sponsor of D&I at BetterCloud. He took BetterCloud through a recent acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.  Manuel has been practicing law for more than 15 years including stints in Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and New York. Before BetterCloud, Manuel held roles at Namely, MetLife and was an associate at White & Case.  Manuel loves pencil...

Collin is the Founder and Chairman of New Era ADR. Collin was previously General Counsel at Reverb.  Reverb was acquired by Etsy in 2019.  Prior to Reverb, Collin was the first attorney at a healthcare technology start-up in Chicago as well as Corporate Counsel at Oracle. Learn more about the community that helps General Counsels in their day to day, TechGC (https://www.techgc.co/) Follow Andy on...

Andy & Pedro discuss all things with Zareena Javed - General Counsel at Drift. Zareena Javed the GC at Drift has built a legal team from zero, and taken the company from early stage to PE exit. And she has done it with a lean, business minded team/approach. She’s a GSD GC in all ways. Learn more about the community that helps General Counsels in their day to day, TechGC (https://www.techgc.co/...

Andy & Pedro discuss all things privacy with Kirk Nahra, the Mt Rushmore of Data Privacy.  A noted HIPAA pro Kirk has been in the privacy game since the beginning and continues to lead. In 2021 Kirk won the Vanguard Award from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) which recognizes one IAPP member each year who demonstrates exceptional leadership, knowledge and crea...

Andy & Pedro speak with Sivan Whiteley to discuss all things around being an effective General Counsel.  Learn more about the community that helps General Counsels in their day to day, TechGC (https://www.techgc.co/) Follow Andy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-dale-7705b83/ Follow TechGC on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techgc

Andy & Pedro speak with both Megan Niedermeyer (GC) & Alexis Kirkman (AGC & Privacy) of Fivetran about structuring a legal department, data privacy, company culture, gaining trust as a legal leader, and many other topics.   The Data Protection Breakfast Club is presented by TechGC - an invitation-only community of GCs and DeputyGCs who help each other in their day to day.  Fi...

Andy & Pedro speak with with Angelique Carson - Director of Content Strategy at TerraTrue.   After 10 years creating privacy content at the IAPP including her incredible podcast “The Privacy Advisor”, Angelique Carson now leads content strategy at a privacy tech startup called TerraTrue that is gaining steam in the tech/privacy community.  Angelique has a unique voice and brings priv...

The featured guest for this episode is Danielle Sheer, Chief Legal Officer at Commvault.  Danielle is a Founding Member of TechGC and an experienced GC at multiple companies, both public and private.   In this episode, Andy, Pedro, & Danielle cover... - Processes and experiences for vetting opportunities and companies - Strategies for prioritization and productivity - Methods of pers...

In this episode, Andy & Pedro speak with Andrew Howard, Director - Privacy & Data Policy at Meta, who is also a working colleague to Pedro.  They cover many topics including...  Andrew's background and how his study of Geography shaped his career Team-building & Management, especially with people who are extremely smart Andrew's time at Microsoft  Microsoft now as a comp...

Andy & Pedro chat with Sonia about trends in Web3/Blockchain as well as operating as a privacy professional in a high-growth and uncertain space. - How Sonia got into her role - The privacy challenges - The antiquated privacy laws not matching innovation - Trends in Web3 & Blockchain - And many more topics... Andy & Pedro are is an active members of TechGC, an invitation-only community of General...

Andy & Pedro speak candidly with Vivek about top-of-mind issues facing the tech General Counsel including... - What to look for in a mentor - When to change jobs - Types of Risk Tolerance and Filtering Risk - Being a first-time GC - Keeping Legal integrated with the business - Reflections on going to law school - Global data inclusion - Allowing employees to use the restroom - And many other t...

Andy and Pedro speak with Andrew, GC, Demandbase about numerous topics affecting operating General Counsels including... State of Data Transfer Regulation State of the Union Young GCs - positioning yourself Building a policy team Being on the same wave-length with counsel and teams Practical guidance from Counsel Outside Counsel understanding personal side Looking in the mirror and building a team...

Adam Markey talks fast, thinks fast and works on fast things.  Is he the Corvette of AdTech PMs?  Is that a thing?  Should it be?  Adam is also a gamer and owns a “power glove” featured in the Wizard.  Adam was thinking FAST when he was one of the original PMs working on a DSP real-time bidder.  And again when he architected one of the first cross-device products. &nb...

Ruby Zefo is yet another privacy leader who came up through the marketing/ad/brand side of the house.  Ruby is also a former litigator which is another common theme we’ve seen from our esteemed guests.  Those skills took her in-house at Sun Microsystems and then to a series of roles at Intel running Security and AI legal.  She’s now CPO at Uber and one of the things we love is her a...

Incredible roundtable with three of the leading voices in the adtech privacy space: Julia Shullman (GC/CPO at Triplelift), Noga Rosenthal (GC/CPO at Ampersand) and Farah Zaman (GC at the NAI)  It's a cutting edge discussion about ads, the future of privacy and a lot of laughs too!