Synergy in Action: Collaborative Dynamics between Data Security, Data Privacy, and Information Governance Teams

Kenya Parrish-Dixon is an expert in information governance, cybersecurity and e-discovery. She is General Counsel and Director, Information Governance at TechCentrics, Inc. Prior to TechCentrics, Inc, Kenya was General Counsel and the Chief Operating Officer for Empire Technologies Risk Management Group, a Cybersecurity, Information Governance, and e-discovery company. Kenya was instrumental in the development of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Data Steward Program, and prior to that she was the Director of White House Information Governance. Until 2018, Kenya was a supervisory attorney at the Federal Trade Commission. Kenya entered government work at the FDIC. Prior to entering the e-discovery and cybersecurity fields, Kenya practiced law as a litigator at Epstein Becker & Green and McDermott Will & Emery. She also worked at Lockheed Martin. Kenya is barred in the District of Columbia, holds the NARA Certificate of Federal Records Management, and is CEDS certified. Kenya frequently writes and speaks on the topics of information governance, cybersecurity and eDiscovery. She serves on the boards of directors of ACEDS, Cybersecurity Law & Strategy, ACC’s Data Steward Program Working Group, and Women, Influence & Power in Law. Kenya received her law degree from The College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, VA.

Kelly Clay is Assistant General Counsel for GSK, based in Durham, North Carolina. She has been with GSK for over nine years and has worked with GSK for many years as Merits Counsel. Kelly is a member of the Global Operations Team overseeing Risk, eDiscovery and Director of Legal Technology Strategy. In addition, Kelly has matrix leadership over the legal technology team. After high school in the Philippines, Kelly took a one-year assignment with the United Nations Development Program before returning to major in International Studies and Business at the University of North Carolina. Kelly is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law.

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.

Michael P. Canty is a Partner in the New York office of Labaton Sucharow LLP, where he serves as General Counsel and head of the Firm’s Consumer Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group. Michael’s practice focuses on complex fraud cases on behalf of institutional investors and consumers.

Recommended by The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation as an accomplished litigator, Michael has more than a decade of trial experience in matters relating to national security, white collar crime, and cybercrime. Michael has been recognized as a Plaintiffs’ Trailblazer and a NY Trailblazer by the National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal, respectively, for his impact on the practice and business of law. Lawdragon has also recognized Michael as one of the “500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America,” as the result of their research into the country’s top verdicts and settlements.

Michael has successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile securities matters involving technology companies. Most notably, Michael is part of the litigation team that recently achieved a historic $650 million settlement in the In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation matter—the largest consumer data privacy settlement ever and one of the first cases asserting consumers’ biometric privacy rights under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Michael has also led cases against AMD, a multi-national semiconductor company, and Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., a global software company. In both cases, Michael played a pivotal role in securing favorable settlements for investors.