Navigating States Data Privacy Initiatives and Coming to Terms with CCPA and CPRA

David Toro has over 20 years of experience in law and compliance, focusing on emerging technology, FinTech, regulatory law, and privacy.

David is the Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Legal at Parafin, a rapidly growing startup offering Capital as a Service. Parafin is uniquely positioned to disrupt the traditional SME lending industry by providing an end to end solution allowing platforms to offer their business clients fast, easy financing.

Previously, David was the General Counsel at Teachable, a course creation software startup helping creators design and sell online courses anywhere around the world. Prior to Teachable, he was the General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Board Secretary of StreetShares, an online small business lender. David started his legal career at a boutique litigation firm in New Haven, CT.

David earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law, a BA from the University of Vermont, and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Doug Boykin serves as Global Privacy Consultant at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and trust technology platform. In his role, Boykin advises many of the world's leading organizations on CCPA, GDPR and ePrivacy (Cookie Law) solution implementations, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling global privacy programs. With over eight years of professional technology experience, Boykin's background combines extensive cross-functional solution implementations, as well as program management and business process design.

Boykin is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM) and earned a B.S. in Info Systems from Kennesaw State University. He's a Nation Science Foundation Scholar and member of the Technology Association of Georgia.

Jordan Thompson is the General Counsel of Penn Foster Group, formerly Deputy General Counsel and Privacy Officer of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and its College of Medicine (NYITCOM). A non-profit independent, private institution of higher education, NYIT has 10,000 students in programs and campuses in New York (Manhattan and Old Westbury, Long Island) and Arkansas as well as China, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates. NYIT sponsors 13 NCAA Division II programs.

In addition to day to day duties as university legal counsel, Mr. Thompson negotiates technology agreements with an emphasis on protecting university assets and student data privacy. He serves as the university legal point of contact on major cloud-migration initiatives.

In his role as Privacy Officer, he participates in strategic decision making, developing policy and training staff and faculty on data loss prevention and privacy compliance with a focus on FERPA, HIPAA and the NY SHIELD Act.

A Certified Information Privacy Professional, Mr. Thompson is a frequent speaker on privacy and technology matters and enjoys sharing real world experience with others while striving to offer practical solutions to problems.

Mr. Thompson began his career as a litigator and has previously served in Associate General Counsel roles for a for-profit medical school and a nationally known commercial automobile insurance company.