Safeguarding Your Data: Privacy Compliance In Vendor Management

Melanie Howard’s practice focuses on the acquisition, protection, licensing, exploitation and sale of intangible assets for major brands and individual talent. Known for her business-minded approach, she represents clients across a variety of industries, including fashion and luxury retail, esports, automotive, technology, entertainment and media, and financial. Clients regularly turn to Melanie for strategic brand protection guidance and counsel on data privacy matters in the context of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other complex commercial transactions as well as licensing, influencer, sponsorship and endorsement deals. Melanie also has extensive experience in copyright and trademark infringement disputes, false advertising cases, right of publicity cases, and entertainment contractual disputes.

A member of the Privacy, Security & Data Innovations team, Melanie advises clients on myriad data privacy and security issues, including data protection strategy, privacy by design, cross-border transfers of personal data, legal compliance, and the development of internal data security and privacy practices and policies with a particular focus on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). She regularly handles IP and technology transactions relating to software and mobile application development, software licensing, ecommerce solutions, technology vendor agreements and other data intensive transactions.

Melanie currently serves as Secretary and Board member of Saving Innocence, a non-profit organization focused on combating sexual slavery and trafficking. She also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Carrie Parikh recently became chief operating officer in the New Jersey governor’s Office of Information Technology and chief data and privacy officer for the state of New Jersey. The latter role is the first statewide privacy role in the state’s history. She previously was vice president, legal, at Wyndham Hotel Group, having quickly ascended from the position of senior counsel handling privacy matters.

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.

Cora Han, JD is the Executive Director and Chief Health Data Officer for the Center for Data-driven Insights and Innovation (CDI2) at UC Health. In her role Ms. Han develops and implements strategies for leveraging health data in a responsible and innovative way, and directs UC system wide health data governance initiatives.

Ms. Han joined UC Health from the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection where she played a leading role on health privacy matters for the Commission in both the enforcement and policy arenas.

Ms. Han received her Bachelors of Arts from Harvard University and completed her Juris Doctor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Dori Anne Kuchinsky is Assistant General Counsel – Privacy at AOL where she counsels on a broad range of global privacy and data security issues.

Prior to joining AOL, Dori was Assistant General Counsel Litigation and Global Privacy at W.R. Grace and a Senior Attorney at Cahill Gordon and Reindel in their New York and Washington, DC offices. Dori has been a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals since 2010 and is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Data Privacy and Security Forum for the National Capital Region and an Advisory Board Member of the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute.

Dori is a frequent speaker on data privacy and security issues, as well as eDiscovery and other litigation-related topics. She is a graduate of Vassar College and St. John’s University School of Law, where she was a Member of the Law Review.