Emerging Trends in the Cyber Regulatory Landscape

Erica Bomsey is a Corporate Counsel at Northrop Grumman. She earned her JD at the American University Washington College of Law

Kenya Parrish-Dixon is the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Empire Technologies Risk Management Group, a cybersecurity, Information Governance, eDiscovery, and Managed Review corporate holding company. She was formerly the Director of White House Information Governance for the Executive Office of the President and before that she was the Assistant Director of the Division of Litigation Technology and Analysis at the Federal Trade Commission. She is a former defense litigator and currently sits on several industry Advisory Boards.

Kenya is barred in the District of Columbia, holds the NARA Certificate of Federal Records Management, and became CEDS certified in 2012. She received her law degree from The College of William & Mary.

Elise Houlik is a Vice President and Senior Managing Counsel on Mastercard’s Privacy & Data Protection Legal team. Based in the company’s Global Headquarters in New York, Elise manages privacy issues across multiple business divisions including marketing, digital products, core business activity, human resources, operations, and enterprise partnerships.

Elise joined Mastercard from Fannie Mae, where she was lead Privacy & Cybersecurity Counsel, and served as a strategic partner with business divisions throughout the company to implement best practices, address cybersecurity concerns, and interface with regulators. Elise is active in the greater privacy community. In Washington, D.C., she served as Co-Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) KnowledgeNet Chapter, and she is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group on Data Security & Privacy Liability.

Elise received a Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School after completing her Bachelor of Arts studies in English at Johns Hopkins University, and is credentialed as a Certified Information Privacy Professional for the United States.