Celebrate International Data Privacy Day with us!
Webinar info - Kick-starting a privacy program provides ten steps essential to launching an organization's privacy program. Attendees will learn how to establish an effective privacy program team; identify your legal, regulatory, and partner requirements; define and communicate your privacy policy, and more.
Bob Siegel, the founder and CEO of Privacy Ref LLC, has extensive professional experience in the development of privacy policies and procedures, the definition of performance metrics to evaluate privacy maturity and the evaluation of compliance. He has deep subject matter knowledge surrounding key laws and regulations regarding consumer privacy and information security, including extensive experience with PCI DSS and Safe Harbor.
Throughout his career Siegel has worked with computer applications and business practices that guard personal information. In addition to developing these systems, he trained employees to use them properly and efficiently. As the collection of personal information has increased, he has developed new approaches to help his organizations protect their sensitive data (both electronic and paper-based). Prior to founding Privacy Ref, Siegel served as senior manager of Worldwide Privacy and Compliance for Staples, Inc., a Fortune 150 retailer, where his responsibilities included development, awareness and compliance of global privacy-related policies and procedures for more than 60 business units in 26 countries.
Siegel is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, awarded from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, with concentrations in U.S. private-sector law (CIPP/US), Canadian law (CIPP/C) and information technology practices (CIPT), and he is also a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). He is a member of the IAPP faculty and has served on the Certification Advisory Board for the CIPM program.