Featured Speaker

Melissa Krasnow, CIPP/US

Melissa Krasnow is a partner at VLP Law Group LLP and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US) and a National Association of Corporate Directors Board Leadership Fellow.  Her practices encompasses domestic and cross-border privavy and data security, technology transactions and mergers and acquisitions.  She advises companies on responding to data breaches and incidents (HIPPA, FERPA, financial services regulatory and PCI DSS), preparing written information security programs, devising incident response plans and checklists as well as facilitating tabletop exercises.  Melissa counsels boards of directors and executive officers on privacy and data security risk oversight and developments and reviews cyber liability insurance policies.  She advises companies on responding to regulatory inquiries and complying with state, federal, and international prvacy and data security and related laws.  Melissa negotiates, prepares and reviews technology transaction agreements, including regarding Big Data, cloud computing and a variety of other services.