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Chris AylesChief Technology Officer, Emerging MarketsRSA Insurance GroupChris is responsible for IT Strategy, Architecture and Compliance acrossRSA’s 20+ Emerging Markets countries. Prior to his current role Chris hasworked in eBusiness, Technology Architecture, Project Management, BusinessAnalysis and Service Management. Before starting his career he completed aBSc(Hons) Computer Science Degree at Oxford Brookes University. Chrislives north of London in the UK with his wife and eight week old baby. Youcan connect with Chris on Linkedin.Ulrich BaumgartnerPartnerOsborne ClarkeUlrich is a German qualified partner at Osborne Clarke’s Munich office and amember of the Digital Business sector team. Ulrich has a strong focus onGerman and EU data protection law. Since almost ten years he is the trustedadvisor of various international clients for their data privacy matters. Also,he has long-standing experience in dealing with German and European dataprotection authorities. Ulrich is a regular speaker at a number of privacyconferences and provides training in data protection law matters for inhousecounsel and other legal professionals. He is an active member of a numberof data privacy bodies, including the IAPP.Ben BeesonPartnerLockton CompaniesBen Beeson is a Partner and leads the Global Technology and Privacy Practiceat Lockton. After graduating twenty years ago with a modern languagesdegree from Durham University Ben is now known as one of the leadingexperts on technology and privacy risks in both the United States and Londoncommercial insurance markets. Ben joined Lockton in 2007 from Marsh andMcLennan Companies where he ran the Technology Risks team in SanFrancisco.Bellamy, CIPP/E, LLMDirector of Data PrivacyAccentureBellamy is the director of data privacy at Accenture, heading a global team ofseven privacy professionals. She has overall responsibility for Accenture’sdata privacy strategy and compliance programs worldwide, in respect ofinternal operations and the company’s technology, outsourcing andconsulting services. Bellamy is the vice chairman of the Board of Directors ofthe International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), sits on theAdvisory Board of the International Data Privacy Law Journal and participatesin many industry groups. Bellamy has a Master's degree from the EuropeanUniversity Institute, Florence, Italy, a law degree from Belgrade University,Yugoslavia, and a Diploma of Advanced European Legal Studies from theCollege of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
Seth BermanExecutive Managing DirectorStroz Friedberg LLCStroz Friedberg’s Executive Managing Director Seth P. Berman oversees thefirm’s offices in London, and Boston, MA, where he supervises digitalforensics, cybercrime investigations, and electronic discovery assignments incriminal, civil, regulatory, and internal corporate matters. He has extensiveexperience dealing with cross-border electronic discovery projects includingcases invoking European Union data protection laws and national banksecrecy regulations. He also oversees computer investigations involving databreaches, securities fraud, identity theft, employee misconduct, ForeignCorrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, and theft of trade secrets. Mr.Berman was previously an Assistant US Attorney in the Criminal Division ofthe US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.Ruth BoardmanPartnerBird & BirdRuth Boardman jointly heads Bird & Bird’s International Privacy and DataProtection Group. She advises on data privacy, freedom of information,database rights and other information law issues. Ruth also advises oninformation technology law, e-commerce and on public procurement law. Sheis rated by Chambers & Partners as a leading individual on data protection,who is “pragmatic and efficient and [who] looks at the big picture”. Bird &Bird’s International Data Privacy Practice is listed as a leading firm byChambers & Partners UK. Ruth co-wrote Data Protection Strategy (Sweet &Maxwell), edits the Encyclopedia of Data Protection (Sweet & Maxwell), is onthe editorial board of journal Data Protection Law & Policy and is a contributorto DataGuidance.Marie-Hélène BoulangerHead of the Data Protection UnitEuropean CommissionMarie-Hélène Boulanger started her career working 6 years in the field ofdata protection with Professor Poullet at the University of Namur. She thenjoined the Belgian Data Protection Authority where she spent more than 5years, for 2 years of which she was the secretary of this authority. Shesubsequently joined Directorate-General Internal Market of the EuropeanCommission as a national expert with the data protection unit. Following that,she transferred to the unit responsible for large scale IT systems, where shehas been responsible for the legal team of the unit and also specialised in thepolicy aspects of the Schengen Information System. Since September 2009she is the Head of Unit of the data protection unit.
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