Speaker Biographies

Speakers

Diane Rinaldo

Assistant Secretary (Acting), NTIA, Department of Commerce

Diane Rinaldo was sworn in as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the Department of Commerce on April 20, 2018. On May 9, 2019, she became Acting Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information for the Department, and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Executive Branch agency principally responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy.

Focusing on cybersecurity and technology policy, Diane has extensive experience in government and the private sector throughout her career. She staffed the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she was the lead committee staffer on Congress’ landmark cybersecurity legislation, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. She also served as the oversight and budget monitor for the National Security Agency and the defense network systems, and served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Mike Rogers as his top technology policy staffer.

Recognized for her work on cybersecurity, Rinaldo was awarded the Executive Women’s Forum’s 2016 Influencer of the Year award. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Maine and an Executive Certificate from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for cyber studies.

Suzan DelBene

US Congresswoman, US House of Representatives

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene represents Washington’s First Congressional District, which spans from northeast King Country to the Canadian border, and includes part of King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties.

First sworn into the House of Representatives on November 13, 2020 Suzan brings more than two decades of experience as a successful technology entrepreneur and business leader.


Suzan takes on a wide range of challenges both in Congress and in the First District and is a leader on issues of technology, health and agriculture.

Suzan currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, the Select Committeee on the Modernization of Congress, is Vice Chair of the New Democrat Coalition, co-chair of Women’s High Tech Caucus, Internet of Things Caucus, Dairy Caucus and Aliminium Caucus.

Suzan earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Reed College. Following Reed, Suzan worked in the biotechnology industry before earning an MBA from the University of Washington and embarking on a successful career as a technology leader and innovator. In more than two decades as an executive and entrepreneur, she helped to start drugstore.com as its vice president of marketing and store development, and served as CEO and president of Nimble Technology, a business software company based on technology developed at the University of Washington. Suzan also spent 12 years at Microsoft, most recently as corporate vice president of the company’s mobile communications business.

Before being elected to Congress, Suzan served as Director of the Washington State Department of Revenue. During her tenure, Suzan proposed reforms to cut red tape for small businesses. She also enacted an innovative tax amnesty program that generated $345 million to help close the state’s budget gap, while easing the burden on small businesses.

Marsha Blackburn

US Senator, US Senate

In 2018, the people of Tennessee elected Marsha Blackburn as first woman to represent the Volunteer State in the United States Senate.

She serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, the Veterans Affairs Committee, and the prestigious Judiciary Committee. In 2019, Senate leadership handpicked Marsha to chair the Judiciary Committee’s “Tech Task Force,” a roundtable-style working group charged with exploring issues related to Big Tech’s influence on American culture.

Before her election to the Senate, Marsha represented Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, where she became a leader in the fight for a small, efficient federal government that is accountable to its citizens.

Marsha dedicates her public service to promoting opportunities for women and making America a more prosperous place to live.

Her leadership philosophy is based on her experiences in the private sector as a small businesswoman and author, and as a mother and grandmother.

Alex Greenstein

Director, Privacy Shield, Department of Commerce

Alex Greenstein has served as Director of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program since July 2019. In this role, he is responsible for management and administration of the Privacy Shield program, as well as policy regarding transatlantic data privacy, data flows, and digital trade issues.

Prior to joining the Commerce Department, Alex served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Coordinator for Communications and Internet Policy at the U.S. Department of State. In that role, he was responsible for global data privacy issues, surveillance, law enforcement access to data, civil liberties, data flows, digital trade, as well as digital economy policy in Europe.

Previously, from 2016 to 2017, Alex served at the White House as Senior Policy Advisor for Economic and Technology Policy at the National Economic Council. His responsibilities included EU-U.S. Privacy Shield implementation, EU Digital Single Market engagement, G-20 digital economy outcome negotiations, China digital economy and cybersecurity issues, APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules expansion, and a range of other matters at the intersection of technology and foreign policy.

From 2015 to 2016, Alex served as Director for the European Union, Southern Europe, and European Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, and oversaw negotiation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

Alex was a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for 18 years. He served at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium; as a Senior Advisor to the State Department’s Special Envoy for Eurasia Energy; on the State Department’s Russia Desk; and at the U.S. Embassies in Kyiv, Ukraine; Beirut, Lebanon; and Bangui, Central African Republic.

Alex holds a B.A. in International Economics and Russian Studies from George Washington University and has pursued graduate level economics coursework through the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Economics Course. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Frank Torres

Senior Director of Consumers Affairs & Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft

Frank Torres is the Director of Consumer Affairs and a Senior Policy Counsel for the Microsoft Corporation. He leads the company’s engagement strategy with consumer and privacy advocates and civil rights organizations. Frank also directs federal policy activity and strategy on privacy, including issues related to government surveillance, and represents Microsoft’s interests on those issues before Congress and the administration.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Frank served as Legislative Counsel in the Washington, DC consumer advocacy office of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. He testified on numerous occasions before the United States Congress on privacy issues and legislation while at Consumers Union. Frank was a member of the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council.

Mr. Torres received his law degree from George Washington University and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.

Martin Abrams

Executive Director, The Information Accountability Foundation

Martin Abrams, Executive Director and Chief Strategist for the Foundation, has 35 years of experience as an information and consumer policy innovator. Multi-stakeholder collaboration has been a key for Abrams in developing practical solutions to dilemmas in information policy. His most recent work has been on big data governance and privacy compliance driven by demonstrable data stewardship. For the past five years, he has led the Global Accountability Project, which has refined the accountability principle that is part of various data protection laws and guidance documents.

Abrams has also provided leadership in other policy areas. He worked on multi-layered privacy notices, which changed the way policy makers and organisations thought about privacy transparency. His work is generally reflected in new laws and regulatory guidance in jurisdictions from Asia, across Europe and in the Americas.

Abrams was the co-founder and President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP, which he led for 13 years. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Information Policy at Experian and Director of Information Policy at TRW Information Systems where he designed one of the early privacy impact assessment tools.

Abrams continues to seek practical solutions to assure information driven innovation with personal dignity at the Foundation.

Aaron Cooper

Vice President, Global Policy, BSA | The Software Alliance

Aaron Cooper serves as Vice President, Global Policy. In this role, Cooper leads BSA’s global policy team and contributes to the advancement of BSA members’ policy priorities around the world that affect the development of emerging technologies, including data privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and trade. Cooper joined BSA in February 2016 as Vice President, Strategic Policy Initiatives.

Cooper previously served as the Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law for Chairman Patrick Leahy on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Most recently, Cooper was of counsel at Covington and Burling, where he provided strategic counseling and policy advice on a broad range of technology issues. Cooper has also served as Legal Counsel to Senator Paul Sarbanes.

Cooper has testified before Congress and is a frequent speaker on data privacy and security, intellectual property, trade, and other issues important to the software industry.

Cooper is a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt Law School. He clerked for Judge Gerald Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Elisa Jillson

Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC

Elisa K. Jillson is an attorney in the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection in the Bureau of Consumer Protection, where she works on policy matters, investigations, and litigation related to privacy and data security.  Elisa was the primary staff author of the FTC’s February 2018 report, Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues and the November 2018 FTC staff comment to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on consumer privacy. 

She was also a co-organizer of the Commission’s recent hearings on privacy (April 2019) and data security (December 2018).  Elisa was previously an attorney in the FTC’s Division of Enforcement, in the Bureau of Consumer Protection, where she worked primarily on order enforcement and litigation related to advertising, privacy, and data security.  She has lectured on privacy as part of a consumer protection course at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School.  Before joining the FTC, Elisa was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC.  Before law school, Elisa was a project manager for an electronic health record vendor.  She is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago Law School.

Naomi Lefkovitz

Senior Privacy Policy Advisor, NIST

Naomi Lefkovitz is the Senior Privacy Policy Advisor in the Information Technology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce. She leads the privacy engineering program, which focuses on developing privacy risk management processes and integrating solutions for protecting individuals’ privacy into information technologies, including digital identity services, IoT, smart cities, big data, mobile, and artificial intelligence.

FierceGovernmentIT named Ms. Lefkovitz on their 2013 “Fierce15” list of the most forward-thinking people working within government information technology, and she is a 2014 and 2018 Federal 100 Awards winner.

Before joining NIST, she was the Director for Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Cybersecurity Directorate of the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President. Her portfolio included the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace as well as addressing the privacy and civil liberties impact of the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity initiatives and programs.

Prior to her tenure in the Obama Administration, Ms. Lefkovitz was a senior attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Her responsibilities focused primarily on policy matters, including legislation, rulemakings, and business and consumer education in the areas of identity theft, data security and privacy.

At the outset of her career, she was Assistant General Counsel at CDnow, Inc., an early online music retailer.

Ms. Lefkovitz holds a B.A. with honors in French Literature from Bryn Mawr College and a J.D. with honors from Temple University School of Law.

Lauren Steinfeld

Chief Privacy Officer, Penn Medicine

Lauren B. Steinfeld serves as Chief Privacy Officer for Penn Medicine. In this position, Ms. Steinfeld leads and oversees the HIPAA compliance program and other privacy initiatives for Penn’s six hospitals, over 250 physician practices, and the School of Medicine research program. Ms. Steinfeld previously served as Chief Privacy Officer for the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Steinfeld teaches a Privacy Law course at Penn Law with Professor Christopher Yoo.

Prior to her work at Penn, Ms. Steinfeld worked at the Office of Management and Budget as the Associate Chief Counselor for Privacy and prior to that, as Attorney Advisor to Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson.
Ms. Steinfeld received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Jimmy R. Rock

Assistant Deputy, Public Advocacy Division, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Jimmy Rock is the Assistant Deputy Attorney General in General Karl Racine’s Public Advocacy Division. Jimmy has been with the DC Office of the Attorney General since June 2010, during which time he has handled a number of the District’s most significant civil enforcement actions, including a case concerning online hotel sales that recovered more than $70 million in unpaid taxes for the District. Jimmy has served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and spent 7 years in private practice in the District before coming to OAG. Jimmy is a graduate of the Emory University School of Law, and also has a Masters of Theological Studies from Emory’s Candler School of Theology. Jimmy and his husband Tom live in the Edgewood neighborhood of Northeast Washington DC with their rescue dog Kensi.

Paula Bruening

Founder and Principal, Casentino Strategies

Paula J. Bruening is Counsel for Sequel Technology and IP Law, LLC and Founder and Principal of Casentino Strategies LLC, a privacy and information policy consulting firm. She works with clients on issues related to emerging technologies, privacy governance and compliance with data protection regulation. Most recently, she served as Director of Global Privacy Policy at Intel Corporation, where she developed and coordinated privacy policy across the company. During her tenure with the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, she was principal drafter of consensus-based documents mapping an approach to accountability in data governance.

Ms. Bruening’s experience spans government, advocacy and international organizations. Her writing on data protection has been published in academic and policy journals in the United States and abroad. She holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Jeremy Greenberg

Policy Fellow, Future of Privacy Forum

Jeremy Greenberg is a Policy Fellow with Future of Privacy Forum. Prior to joining FPF, Jeremy served as a law clerk for the Office of Senator Markey where he worked on a diverse set of privacy and telecommunications issues. Jeremy is a 2018 graduate from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of the Georgetown Law Technology Review. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Ithaca College, where he majored in Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, and minored in Jewish Studies.

Joy Pritts

Founder, Pritts Consulting

Joy Pritts, J.D., is an independent consultant helping IT companies develop and implement innovative strategies, policies and practices on health information privacy, security and individual access. Joy has over 15 years expertise in the health information privacy field. She founded and led the Center on Medical Record Rights at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute where, among other things, she analyzed and published reports on HIPAA, the Common Rule, federal substance abuse confidentiality regulations, and state privacy and data access laws.

More recently, she served as the first Chief Privacy Officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services.

Bryant Noël

Privacy Consultant, OneTrust

Bryant Noel serves as a Privacy Consultant at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform. In his role, Noel advises companies large and small on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world's privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programs. Noel is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E and CIPM) and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Georgia.

Travis Hall

Telecommunications Policy Specialist, NTIA

Dr. Travis Hall is a Telecommunications Policy Specialist for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office of Policy and Development, focusing on Surveillance and Consumer Privacy. His portfolio includes IoT, UAS, and Blockchain, and he recently successfully concluded two privacy multi stakeholder processes.

He has a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication from New York University, and his dissertation research focused on the cultural contexts and histories of state identification programs, specifically those that use bodies as the media of identity (biometrics, tattoos). He has acted as a consultant for advocacy groups, academic institutes, and private companies on the technical and policy details of identification and the potential impacts of these technologies on privacy rights. Before joining the Department of Commerce, Travis taught at American University and was a research fellow at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, Germany. He received his MA in International Communications and BA in International Relations from American University.

Jeff Joseph

President, SIIA

Jeff Joseph is president of SIIA – the principal trade association for the data, information, media, education technology, and software industries. SIIA’s more than 800 members consist of software developers, data and analytics firms, information service companies, and media producers serving nearly every segment of society, including business, education, government, healthcare, and consumers.

Prior to joining SIIA, Joseph was founder and CEO of Starlight Public Affairs, a strategic communications firm advising an array of corporate and non-profit clients. Joseph also served as senior vice president of communications and strategic relationships for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies. CTA owns and produces CES® – The Global Stage for Innovation.

Joseph served six years as vice president of communications with BIO, the world’s largest biotechnology trade association. Previously, he spent eleven years at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide/Washington where he helped found the agency’s technology practice. He began his career in communications at the World Resources Institute, a non-profit policy research center in Washington, D.C., where he worked in media relations and legislative affairs. Joseph also has been involved in several political campaigns and worked as a media consultant and speechwriter for former Washington, D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly.

Joseph is frequently cited in publications including USA Today, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, TWICE, Dealerscope and other top trade publications as well as in Associated Press and Bloomberg news stories. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, Fox News Channel, Cheddar and local television and radio stations across the nation.

In his free time, Joseph finds joy in spending time with his wife Lisa and their two daughters. He also enjoys viewing and participating in sports, discovering new music, discussing politics, playing guitar, cooking, traveling and rooting for the Dallas Cowboys and the Princeton University Tigers and Georgetown University Hoyas men’s basketball teams. He is a founding member of a Dad band which received an Honorable Mention, Best Bands in Arlington, VA from Arlington Magazine.

Joseph is a 1986 graduate of Princeton University where he received a bachelor’s degree in religion.

Paul Adamson OBE

Chairman, Forum Global

Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and founder and editor of E!Sharp, an online magazine dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe's place in the world.

Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe's Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. 

In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.

Dan Caprio

Co-Founder, The Providence Group

Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission's Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.

Dawn-Marie Hutchinson

Director of Corporate Strategic Security Services, GlaxoSmithKline

Dawn-Marie Hutchinson is a dynamic and highly accomplished senior executive with more than 18 years of success in healthcare, retail, technology, and professional services sectors. She leverages extensive experience in cyber security and risk management to bridge the gap between deep technical content and information that a C-Level executive can digest and use to make quality decisions.

Dawn-Marie has the proven ability to work with Boards of Directors and Executive leadership to facilitate strategic technology conversations to enhance business strategy, improve supply chain operations and manage enterprise risk. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, business continuity, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain management. 

Named as one of the "Top 12 Most Influential Women in Cyber Security" by CSO Magazine and "Eight Women to Watch" by SC Magazine, Dawn-Marie has also received recognition as one of CRN’s Women of the Channel Power 50, and was an Eventa Breakaway Leader Nominee.

She has authored multiple technical white papers and is regularly cited as a subject matter expert in industry magazines. Dawn-Marie was featured in the article “Women in Cyber Leadership” in Wired Magazine and wrote the article “No One Plans to Fail, But Many Fail to Plan” and authored the book "Conversational Geek: GDPR" and is a contributing author to "The Next Generation CISO: Insights from Today’s Security Leader’s for Tomorrow’s." A confident and experienced public speaker, Dawn-Marie presents at over 40 conferences worldwide per year to organizations including RSA, Gartner Security Summit, Net Diligence, Black Hat, IAPP, Evanta CIO and CISO Summits, and ISSA events.

Jonathan Litchman

Co-Founder, The Providence Group

Jonathan Litchman is a national security veteran with experience as an intelligence officer and as a staff member on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a senior executive at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he led efforts in software product development and consulted on information operations and strategic planning. He most recently led Edelman Public Relations’ Washington, D.C. cybersecurity policy and national security practice.

Twitter: @jdlitchman

Natalie Meurer

Civil Liberties Engineer, Palantir Technologies

Natalie Meurer works as a software engineer on Palantir's Privacy and Civil Liberties Team, where she designs and builds tools for use in the world's most security-sensitive environments. Since 2015, Natalie has advised Palantir clients on best practices for data retention and system oversight, closely engaging with the Danish National Police alongside other defense and law enforcement organizations. Most recently, Natalie rearchitected Palantir's auditing and oversight systems to promote increased accountability for users of Palantir products. Natalie has a degree in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from Georgetown University.

Tina Grande

Chair, The Confidentiality Coalition

Tina Olson Grande is Senior Vice President for Policy for the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), a coalition of chief executives of the nation’s leading healthcare companies and organizations.

HLC advocates for consumer-centered health reform, emphasizing the value of private sector innovation. It is the only health policy advocacy organization representing CEOs from all sectors of the health care industry.

Ms. Grande took the helm of HLC’s Policy Department in 2007 where she oversees all policy-related matters pertaining to delivery systems, payment reform, health information technology, patient safety, and healthcare quality. She is Chair of the Confidentiality Coalition, the leading health privacy coalition bringing together all sectors of the healthcare industry to ensure that federal policymakers find the right balance between the protection of health information and the efficient and interoperable systems needed to provide high quality care. Ms. Grande was asked back to HLC after serving as HLC’s Policy Director in the late 1990s.

Ms. Grande is a frequent speaker on health issues and her work has been published on numerous occasions. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange’s (WEDI’s) Security and Privacy workgroup, and previously served as Vice Chair of the Health Data Consortium’s Policy Committee.

Prior to leading HLC’s policy efforts, Ms. Grande was Health Policy Director for Arnold & Porter LLP, where she advised clients in several different healthcare sectors as well as foreign governments on Medicare and other U.S. health policies.

During her time as a California entrepreneur in the early 2000s, Ms. Grande launched the Medicare Advisory Group, Inc. a San Francisco-based healthcare policy and technology company providing hospitals and long-term care facilities with a software solution to ease the complexity of managing Medicare regulations.

Ms. Grande launched her career in health policy working in the U.S. Senate for Senator Dave Durenberger from Minnesota. From there she went on to work at the Health Care Advisory Board, and Patton Boggs LLP. She also was Research Director at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California where she forecasted key trends in healthcare, emerging technologies and corporate strategic planning.

Ms. Grande received her Master’s of Health Science degree from The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Bachelor of Arts from Saint Olaf College. In her spare time, she serves on her local government’s school health advisory board, and - most importantly - is raising three boys with her husband, Marc.

Michelle Richardson

Director of the Privacy and Data Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

Michelle Richardson is the Director of the Data and Privacy Project where she leads CDT’s efforts to create a user-centered internet. Her team engages companies and government officials to create policies and technical solutions that protect individual privacy, empower users, and advance social justice.

Michelle has testified before Congress, advised government agencies, and frequently appears in national press such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and Politico. Recognized by The Hill as one of the most influential nonprofits lobbyists in Washington, she has led left-right coalitions to defend privacy in the face of ever-expanding government authorities.

Before joining CDT in 2017, Michelle led the American Civil Liberties Union’s preeminent legislative campaigns against overreaching surveillance programs for 10 years. She also served as a democratic counsel for the House Judiciary Committee where she worked on a range of anti-terrorism laws and policies. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado and her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.

David Brody

Counsel and Senior Fellow for Privacy & Technology, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

David Brody is Counsel & Senior Fellow for Privacy and Technology. He focuses on issues related to the intersection of technology and consumer privacy, free speech, hate group activity, government surveillance, and racial discrimination.

David previously served in the Wireline Competition Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped write federal regulations protecting broadband Internet consumer privacy and conducted antitrust reviews of telecommunications mergers. He clerked for the Honorable Stephen H. Glickman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the Honorable Frederick H. Weisberg of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He also practiced appellate litigation as a fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. David is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Shane Tews

Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Shane Tews is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she works primarily on cyber security and Internet governance issues. She is also president of Logan Circle Strategies, where she focuses on information and communication technology and cyber security policy issues.

She is currently vice chair of the board of directors of the Internet Education Foundation and co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum USA.

Previously, Ms. Tews managed Internet security and digital commerce issues as vice president of global policy for Verisign Inc. She began her career in the George H. W. Bush White House as a deputy associate director in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, and later moved to Capitol Hill as a legislative director for a member of Congress.

Michael McLaughlin

Research Analyst, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Michael McLaughlin is a research analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. He researches and writes about a variety of issues related to information technology and Internet policy, including digital platforms, e-government, and artificial intelligence. Michael graduated from Wake Forest University, where he majored in Communication with Minors in Politics and International Affairs and Journalism. He received his Master’s in Communication at Stanford University, specializing in Data Journalism.