The Shifting Sands of EU Privacy Law

Townsend Feehan is CEO of IAB Europe. Prior to joining IAB Europe, Townsend worked for Microsoft Legal & Corporate Affairs in Brussels and ran EU industry associations in the ICT, consumer electronics and biotechnology sectors. She previously represented Microsoft on IAB Europe’s Board. Townsend has an M. Phil. in European policy from the University of Edinburgh.

Romain Gauthier is CEO of Didomi. He co-founded Didomi with the core belief that Privacy management is key to sustainable value creation from customer data. After 7 years of diverse experiences and a first successful startup sold to a leading adtech player (MediaMath), he brings to Didomi his expertise in complex enterprise software design and sales as well as his vision of the consent and preferences management market.

Daniel A. Sepulveda is the Senior Vice President for Policy and Advocacy for MediaMath, a multinational advertising and marketing technology company. In this capacity he represents MediaMath on public policy issues in public forums, before government officials and agencies, in industry associations, and in dialogues with consumer organizations and civil society working on technology and the digital economy. He also works with teams across the company to put consumer interests first in our products and services.

Sepulveda served in the Obama Administration at the State Department as Ambassador and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy from March 2013 – January 2017. Prior to joining the State Department, Sepulveda served as a Senior Advisor to Senator John Kerry from 2009 – 2013 working on technology, telecommunications, trade, and economics. From 2004-2008 Sepulveda was a senior legislative aide to then-Senator Barack Obama on the same issues and also advised his presidential campaign.

Before joining Senator Obama’s office, Sepulveda worked for Senator Barbara Boxer, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee. Additional prior work experience includes service during the Clinton Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor and at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). Mr. Sepulveda received a Master of Public Affairs from the Lindon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Public Policy and International Affairs and holds Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Emory University.