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Dr. Michael McGrath leads Proofpoint's Archiving, Compliance and Digital Risk Management function for EMEA where he liaises with customers, regulators and technology experts to apply advanced technology to meet Enterprise’s needs to better compliance, information and cost management.
He also leads the Seahorse Data Research Program, an open source community research project into the nature of data and data interoperability. He's an experienced and award-winning leader, author and researcher. For almost 25 years, Michael has been working to understand decision making and apply that knowledge to affect real-world change.
Toby Zimmerer is a Senior Manager in the Cybersecurity Practice of Ernst & Young. He has over 20 years of professional experience developing information security strategies, designing information security programs, developing information security solutions and lead teams with deploying and operating information security programs. He has provided services to domestic and international customers across a breadth of industries including Consumer Products, Retail, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Automotive, High Tech, Oil & Gas and Telecommunications. Toby has served as an information security leader, where he built information security programs, advised audit committees and board of directors on the potential cybersecurity risks and proposed approaches and solutions to minimize the impact to the organization.
Toby holds an MBA from Capella University, BS in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional Certification from (ISC)2 and is a U.S. Navy veteran.
Linda is a Senior Manager in the Cyber Security and Data Protection and Privacy practice at EY. She is based in the Los Angeles, CA area and has over 20 years of experience advising businesses, governmental agencies and quasi-governmental agencies on issues surrounding data remediation, data privacy, information governance and eDiscovery related issues. Her experience spans multiple industries including automotive, financial, pharma, utilities and other general corporations.
Linda has 20+ years in Data Privacy, Information Governance and Compliance Counsel-Supervised SOC II audit, Privacy Shield and GDPR and CCPA Audits and certification/compliance as well as implemented training programs to meet such obligations around data privacy and information security. She has implemented, assisted and consulted in the organizational incident response plans for data breach, EU-SAR and responding to CCPA requests. Consulted with HR departments to address international data issues relating to international employee base, including training programs relating to data privacy and institutional data protection. Understanding of anonymization and pseudo-anonymization of data, consumer privacy, employee privacy, PCI, PII, PI and data privacy laws and related issues around data. A recognized speaker on such topics.
She also has 20+ years of expertise in counseled executive management on business processes and the effects of the law. Advised on risk due to data storage and data transfers between US and EU/APEC employee and consumer data under EU/US Privacy Shield, EU GDPR, and APEC Data Privacy Framework; contract negotiations including liability, exposure, risk, data security and data privacy associated with multi-national deals for both on premise and cloud deployments.
