Joseph Facciponti
Joseph Facciponti is PCCE's Executive Director and an Adjunct Professor at NYU and Cornell Law School. He is a former cybercrime and complex frauds prosecutor with in-house and private practice experience in internal investigations, data breaches, and regulatory and compliance matters concerning cybersecurity, data privacy, and financial crime. For nine years, he was a prosecutor at the SDNY, where he won an FBI Director’s award for outstanding cyber investigation. Later, Facciponti was Deputy Head of global internal investigations at HSBC. He has also spent over eight years in private practice counseling clients on financial crime, cybersecurity, data privacy, and other issues. Facciponti is currently the Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Privacy, Data Security and Information Technology Litigation.
Avi Gesser
Avi Gesser is Co-Chair of the Data Strategy & Security Group at Debevoise & Plimpton. His practice focuses on advising major companies on a wide range of cybersecurity, privacy and artificial intelligence matters. He has represented global financial services firms, private equity firms, insurance companies, hedge funds and media organizations in large-scale ransomware attacks, cyber breaches by nation-states, and regulatory investigations relating to the use of artificial intelligence.
Lynn Haaland
Lynn Haaland is Zoom’s Chief Compliance, Ethics & Privacy Officer, and Deputy General Counsel. Lynn is an expert in governance and compliance for multinationals, privacy law, and U.S. cybersecurity law. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Lynn was SVP, Deputy General Counsel, Global Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer and Chief Counsel, Cybersecurity at PepsiCo. From 2003 to 2016, Lynn was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) and Washington, D.C. At EDVA, Lynn served as Deputy Chief of the National Security and International Crime Unit. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, Lynn worked at the United Nations in New York, the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Zurich, Switzerland, and large law firms in Paris, New York and Washington, D.C. Lynn received her law degree from The George Washington University.
Jonathan D. Martin
Jonathan D. Martin is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Meta, where he leads legal teams responsible for product, privacy, and competition counseling. Before joining Meta in 2020, he was Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Corporate Compliance Officer at S&P Global Inc., where he supported teams responsible for advising on corporate legal and compliance matters. He began his career as a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, representing clients on a range of securities, antitrust, bankruptcy, enforcement, and other complex litigation and regulatory matters. Jonathan clerked for the Honorable John G. Koeltl on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in History. He has a Ph.D. in American History from New York University, and he received his J.D. from NYU School of Law.
Natalia Levina
Natalia Levina has received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is a Full Professor at New York University Stern School of Business. Her main research interest is in understanding how people span organizational, professional, cultural, and other boundaries while producing and using technological innovations. Currently, her studies focus on the evaluation and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine, open innovation projects, theories of smart contracts, and firm-community relationships in crowdsourcing. A large part of her prior research has focused on strategies and tactics relating to global sourcing of expertise, content, and ideas. Her work has made significant contributions to the understanding of vendor capability building in professional services, multivendor portfolio strategies, knowledge-sharing and collaboration effectiveness for distributed innovation, and strategies for open innovation.
Cassius Sims
Cassius Sims leverages over a decade of diverse legal experience and deep technical expertise to solve complex privacy, data management, process automation and simplification, and information security issues at Fortune 30 scale. Prior to going in-house, Cassius worked on a range of legal matters that required significant technical expertise, including patent litigation and prosecution, privacy, and critical government and board investigations. In his current role, he provides his business partners with guidance for diverse topics, including incident response, Individual Rights Requests, security-by-design practices, data governance, and metadata management. Cassius previously clerked for Chief Judge Moore at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.