Proactive Measures To Avoid Potential Data Breaches & Cyber-Attacks - WIPL

Maneesha Mithal is a partner in the privacy and cybersecurity practice in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she advises clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection matters and represents companies in regulatory investigations. She is also one of the founding members of Wilson Sonsini’s AI group.
Maneesha is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and data security, having led the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Division of Privacy and Identity Protection prior to joining the firm. In this capacity, Maneesha oversaw a team of 40 lawyers responsible for the enforcement of privacy and security laws and the development of policy positions in areas such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition, biometrics, and connected cars, as well as health privacy, children’s privacy, ransomware, and the intersection of privacy and competition. She was also responsible for enforcing the Fair Credit Reporting and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Safeguards Rule. She led the negotiation of numerous privacy and data security settlements and managed the first litigated FTC decisions on cybersecurity issues. Maneesha also worked with congressional staff on federal privacy legislation, with state attorney general offices on joint investigations, and with other federal and international agencies on a variety of initiatives.
Earlier in her career, as a manager with the FTC’s International Consumer Protection Division, Maneesha worked on European privacy issues and served as a U.S. delegate to the privacy committees of the OECD and APEC.
Maneesha previously served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel in the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP), where she reviewed advertising cases and financial consumer protection matters, and held various positions in BCP’s International Division, including as Acting Associate Director. She began her legal career as a litigator at Covington & Burling.
Maneesha is a frequent speaker at industry events, including IAPP- and ABA-led panels.

Peggy is the Global Privacy lead for Mylan. She oversees the Company’s established and developed global privacy program. Under Peggy’s lead, the Company is continually updating and refining its privacy program to keep ahead of the ever-changing privacy laws in the US and abroad, including CCPA, HIPAA, GDPR, and PIPEDA, and to safeguard patient health information. In these efforts, Peggy partners closely with the Company’s security, compliance, and legal teams. She has over 20 years of privacy and healthcare experience, including, before joining Mylan, work at a major university health system and private practice, and teaching healthcare law and ethics.

Elise Houlik is a Vice President and Senior Managing Counsel on Mastercard’s Privacy & Data Protection Legal team. Based in the company’s Global Headquarters in New York, Elise manages privacy issues across multiple business divisions including marketing, digital products, core business activity, human resources, operations, and enterprise partnerships.

Elise joined Mastercard from Fannie Mae, where she was lead Privacy & Cybersecurity Counsel, and served as a strategic partner with business divisions throughout the company to implement best practices, address cybersecurity concerns, and interface with regulators. Elise is active in the greater privacy community. In Washington, D.C., she served as Co-Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) KnowledgeNet Chapter, and she is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group on Data Security & Privacy Liability.

Elise received a Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School after completing her Bachelor of Arts studies in English at Johns Hopkins University, and is credentialed as a Certified Information Privacy Professional for the United States.

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.

Jami Mills Vibbert helps clients navigate global data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity concerns across a number of industries, including life sciences, healthcare, financial services, media, and technology. She counsels on compliance with the ever-growing number of data protection requirements and on how to create global data strategies designed to align with these requirements in an efficient, proactive, and operationalized way.

Ms. Vibbert assists in program and policy creation, conducts privacy and data security risk assessments, advises on data risk management, negotiates privacy and data security provisions with customers and third parties, and engages in privacy and data security due diligence. In the aftermath of a security incident or data loss, she guides clients through breach response and crisis management and has been counsel for clients in privacy and data security-focused investigations with relevant privacy and data security regulators and in privacy and data security litigation. She also aids clients in developing digital health, artificial intelligence, and other technology solutions to augment consumer, customer, and patient engagement and in designing new data-driven technology, products, and services in a forward-looking, flexible, and ethical manner.