About the IAPP

Sharon supports all business units to identify and manage privacy risk when processing PII (both guest and employee), through training, education, DPIA’s and being an approachable, positive, friendly, resource, and privacy subject matter expert. 

With 20 + years’ experience supporting and leading privacy, compliance and risk management within different sized companies across different industries including Financial, Healthcare, Software Development and most recently Airlines. Sharon’s experience of successfully building and leading privacy operations programs provides a unique understanding and insight, including having been on both sides of privacy audits. 

Sharon is an innovative and strategic privacy thought leader, who acts with integrity and positive intention. A proven track record for empowering and collaborating cross-functionally on privacy, and privacy risk matters, that support and deliver on business objectives. A sound operations leader with the tenacity to lead organizational change and build new capabilities within an organization's privacy programs, to achieve strategic, compliance and financial objectives. Sharon is passionate about privacy and believes in the importance of understanding data assets, to protect and grow profitable business with the ethical use of data.