IAB State Privacy Law Summit 2023

As the Senior Vice President of Activations and Addressability at LiveRamp, Travis Clinger leads activation partnerships spanning martech, commerce, customer service, along with the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: driving strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability and activations products and initiatives.

Michael Hahn is Executive Vice President & General Counsel at IAB and IAB Tech Lab. Michael has responsibility for all legal matters, including the direction of legal strategy, privacy compliance, antitrust compliance, intellectual property rights issues, and general corporate matters. Michael is also responsible for serving as an advocate for the digital advertising industry on common legal issues affecting member companies.

Michael joined IAB and IAB Tech Lab from Lowenstein Sandler LLP where he served as Vice Chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group. In that role, he provided clients with strategic counsel around competition, distribution and governance issues. In the area of litigation, Michael’s matters have included multiparty class action antitrust defense representation.

Michael served previously as Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Antitrust Law Committee. He also previously served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Competition Law 360 and the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Civil Torts & RICO Committee. Michael frequently publishes on a range of legal and policy issues.

Michael earned his B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University, M.P.P. from Georgetown University and J.D. for Georgetown University Law Center.

Privacy law and digital advertising have never been more complex. Companies rely on Alysa Hutnik for actionable, practical advice that reflects a deep understanding of the legal landscape, key industry developments, and, most importantly, her clients’ businesses. Her support includes helping clients identify opportunities in this moment of significant privacy change, designing sound compliance programs and data strategy, and defending companies before government regulators regarding their data and advertising practices.

Alysa’s position in the industry affords her a broad view of the marketplace and industry trends, which helps her clients thoughtfully build and update their privacy roadmaps, both for the current demands, and for what comes next—in the law, technology, and how businesses use and leverage data.

In the event of investigations, enforcement actions, or disputes, Alysa delivers calm, clear-eyed guidance that helps her clients understand and contextualize the issues and sets a course designed to minimize disruption and exposure. Her productive relationships with investigators, regulators, government attorneys, and third parties enable her to facilitate favorable and early resolutions.

Passionate about technology and innovation, much of Alysa’s practice is focused in the digital and technology space. She is one of the nation’s leading adtech attorneys, active in the industry and well-versed in the unique legal challenges faced by advertisers, publishers, adtech, and data-focused companies.

Ranked as a leading practitioner in the Privacy & Data Security area by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Global, and Law360, Alysa has received accolades for her expansive knowledge and pragmatic advice. Clients tell Chambers USA that, ​“Alysa excels at applying privacy law to a complex digital advertising landscape that she knows exceedingly well. She’s doing fantastic work in the adtech space.”

Prior to joining the firm, Alysa was a federal clerk for the Honorable Joseph R. Goodwin, United States District Judge, Southern District of West Virginia.

Natalie LaPorta is the Senior Director and Managing Counsel of Privacy for Walgreen Co. focused on a wide range of privacy matters that impact U.S. patient and consumer data privacy including state and federal data privacy compliance, complex contract negotiations, digital privacy, de-identification, AI, analytics, and marketing. Prior to her most recent role at Walgreens, Natalie was an associate attorney at Dentons US LLP where she handled health care regulatory, tax exempt bond finance, and mergers and acquisitions matters. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Benedictine University and a law degree from The John Marshall Law School.

Coleman Lechner brings more than 17 years of legal experience both at law firms and as in-house counsel in various roles at consumer facing businesses in telecommunications, technology, retail and hospitality. Coleman serves as Senior Corporate Counsel on the compliance team at DISH Network where he focuses on privacy and cybersecurity for its satellite and streaming television services, wireless telecommunications services, and in-home services brands. He received his JD from the Notre Dame Law School and BA from the University of Notre Dame.

Marissa Levinson is the Associate General Counsel for Privacy at Instacart. She leads Instacart’s global privacy legal team and oversees the company’s privacy program. Over the last 15 years, Marissa has held managerial, business development, legal and privacy roles at media, advertising and software companies.