Effects of GDPR & State Privacy Laws: How Data Protection Impacts Your Business

Over the last 20 years Lewis has led entrepreneurial, fast growing, and adaptive software and service-oriented business lines across financial service sectors. Lewis has led large professional sales and relationship management organizations across the globe, and built fast growing teams of client facing professionals to support sales, relationship and marketing efforts for a $250 million revenue division. He has also led a partnerships and alliance program with over 200 leading service partners, vendors and technology providers.

Matthews product expertise includes client lifecycle management across client onboarding, know-your-customer (KYC), client negotiations and tech enabled contracting, collateral and margin management, syndicated loans and trade processing, clearing, settlement and payment services, client reference data, artificial intelligence, blockchain and smart contracting.

Lewis was named to the Financial News 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Trading and Technology list in 2013.

Lewis is also an Advisory Board Member of LegalUp, an innovative provider of internet-based (SaaS) legal contract and document automation software.

Lewis received his executive MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2014.

Bruce has been a member of H&R Block’s Legal Department since 2003 and currently leads the U.S. Client Services, Compliance & International Group.

In this role, he has legal oversight responsibility for H&R Block’s global tax return preparation businesses including marketing, privacy, franchising, and intellectual property. He also has operational oversight for H&R Block’s privacy, compliance and anti-fraud programs. H&R Block is one of the world’s largest tax services providers offering tax return preparation services through more than 10,000 company-owned and franchised retail tax offices and through its do-it-yourself tax preparation solutions.

Bruce obtained his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law.

Based out of Groupon’s Chicago headquarters, Brock Wanless is Groupon’s Managing Counsel – Global Privacy & Regulatory. In this role, Brock manages Groupon’s Global Privacy and Regulatory team, which oversees privacy and data security (including GDPR compliance), regulatory compliance, consumer protection matters, and government affairs. Brock has over 14 years of diverse experience counseling and leading key regulatory initiatives for public companies, privately-held companies, and non-profit organizations.

Gretchen Herault is Senior Privacy Counsel at HE Healthcare. Prior to joining GE, she was the Chief Privacy Officer at Nuance Communications, and spent six years as Vice President, Compliance and Fraud Prevention and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer at monster.com. Before joining the technology industry, Gretchen served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Graduate Leverage, and previously worked as regulatory and litigation counsel in the financial services industry for over ten years. She began her career clerking for the New Hampshire Superior Court.

Gretchen is a graduate of Williams College and a cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School, where she was Research and Projects Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. She is admitted to the bar in CT, NH, MA, and the United States Supreme Court. Gretchen holds the CIPP/US and CIPM certifications from the IAPP.