Gail Magnuson is a respected global security, privacy, and information policy executive with more than ten years of experience as a change agent, integrating policy, compliance, and governance disciplines. A recognized expert in the security and privacy communities and in the financial services, business services, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and health care industries, Gail makes CEO visions a reality by implementing policy, information, processes, systems, and programs that ensure the company wins by outperforming and “out-behaving” the competition.
Most recently, Gail was Director of Global Data Privacy at Manpower Inc., a world leader in the employment services industry. Gail created a lasting global privacy and security program that kept the company complaint with security and privacy regulations in 80 countries. She also led the company’s global e-learning Ethics Learning Center implementation, which achieved an industry record 99.9% completion rate among 33,000 employees.
Prior to joining Manpower, Gail was the Security and Privacy Offering Manager responsible for the EDS Security and Privacy Consulting Services. At EDS, Gail designed privacy implementation roadmaps and sold and implemented privacy programs for global retailers, including a major telecommunications company and several financial institutions.
Gail is the former Director of Fiderus, a security and privacy boutique startup, where she developed the company’s privacy and security intellectual capital, formalizing the methodology and selling and delivering its services. Previously, as a Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Vice President with Bank of America, Gail managed cross-functional teams from all of the bank’s lines of business. She secured the bank’s position as an industry leader in privacy in the late 1990s by preventing information sharing with third parties offering their products to bank customers. She initiated the company’s participation and investment in key industry associations, such as the Financial Services Roundtable and BITS, the Online Privacy Alliance, and BBB Online.
Today, Gail is active in research and global matters through her leadership roles with the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Ponemon Institute, and BITS.
