Chris Donewald, CIPP-US

Chris Donewald, CIPP-US has extensive experience in the legal field. Chris currently serves as the Director & Head of Legal at Material Security since June 2023. Chris is also a Board Advisor at Piiano since May 2022 and a Member of the Board of Advisors at BreachRx since February 2020. Chris is also an Advisory Board Member at Future of Privacy Forum and a Charter Member at TechGC. Chris serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Golden Gate University, School of Law since January 2020.

Chris has worked at Affirm, Inc. from January 2017 to February 2023, where they held several positions, including Director - Privacy and Trust Counsel, Senior Corporate Counsel: Privacy, Protection, and Trust, Managing Corporate Counsel - Commercial, and Corporate Counsel, Commercial. Chris developed and managed Affirm's privacy legal team and served as the privacy subject matter expert for all privacy-related issues across the organization. Chris also advised the teams responsible for product development, marketing, technology, revenue, and operations with respect to US and EU privacy and information security issues.

Before Affirm, they worked at PIB Law as Of Counsel from March 2015 to January 2017 and at Blank Rome LLP as an Attorney from April 2012 to March 2015. Chris started their legal career as an Associate Attorney at AlvaradoSmith, APC from October 2010 to April 2012. At these firms, Chris gained extensive experience in commercial litigation and regulatory compliance matters.

Chris Donewald, CIPP-US received their Bachelor's degree in History and Justice Studies from Arizona State University from 1999 to 2003. Chris pursued their Juris Doctor degree from Golden Gate University, School of Law from 2004 to 2007. Recently, they received a Master's degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business from 2020 to 2022. Chris is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional / US, obtained from IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals in December 2018.