Whitney Merrill is Head of Global Privacy, Cybersecurity Legal, and Regulatory Compliance and the Data Protection Officer at Asana. Previously, she was at a fintech company building their privacy program from scratch. Before that she was Privacy, eCommerce & Consumer Protection Counsel at
Electronic Arts (EA) and an attorney at the
Federal Trade Commission. In 2017, she received the
2017 Women in Security Award and was named one of the
2017 Top Women in Cybersecurity by CyberScoop.
She has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where she explored issues associated with the intersection of technology, information security, privacy, and the law. During her time at Illinois, she was an
Illinois Cyber Security Scholar and member of the
Illinois Security Lab.
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