Speaker

Jennifer Harkins Garone

Jennifer Harkins Garone is the North American Privacy Officer for the Carnival Corporation as of July 2018. Previously, she spent ten years at Microsoft leading privacy in IT, HR and corporate privacy.

She is a reformed marketer, and it was while leading direct marketing at Citizens Bank that she gained privacy responsibilities. Ms. Harkins Garone was then the Privacy Leader for GE Money – Americas. 

Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) and early IAPP member, she is also a former Chairperson of the DMA Ethics Policy Committee. In 2012 she received the Microsoft Engineering Excellence privacy award. 

She is active in her local community, is a City Councilperson and serves on the Board of NCL, Inc., Emerald City.