K Royal is in the business of making sure companies are compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. As senior director of privacy at compliance and security company TrustArc Inc., she helps organizations bridge the gap between knowing they must fully follow the GDPR, and actually crossing the finish line.

“I’ve worked with startups to global companies who are established in every country,” Royal explained. “The most common factor was that the companies did not know what data they have and where it is stored.”