Big Ten Academic Alliance Privacy Panel

Privacy professionals from the Big Ten will discuss our various privacy programs and how we implement privacy principles at our universities. We’ll touch on our available resources and strategies we have used for expanding a culture of privacy awareness. In this panel session, privacy professionals in the BTAA will also give recommendations for how anyone-regardless of their role-can incorporate privacy best practices into their daily work. This session will be on Zoom and broadcast live.

Joe Gridley, Chief Data Privacy Officer, University of Maryland leads the privacy program at The University of Maryland, the University System of Maryland’s flagship university. Prior to his time at UMD, Joe worked at Penn State as an Assistant Chief Privacy Officer, HIPAA Security Officer, and IT Compliance manager. Before his career in higher education, Joe was an attorney in the software and finance industries, where he built and supported several data governance and compliance programs for SaaS solutions. 

Lauren Popp, Chief Health Information Compliance Officer and Director, University of Minnesota, has 17 years of experience in the health care industry, with 14 years of experience specifically in legal and compliance. She has run multiple successful privacy programs and participated in multiple high-profile government investigations and litigations. She has also assisted with and led programs to implement international compliance in multiple countries and regions, including Australia, South Africa, the Middle East, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, Canada and the European Union. Lauren has experience running gap analysis, researching regulations, data mapping, data classification, interacting with government officials in both an investigatory and client relationship, negotiating contracts with both governmental and private businesses, running risk assessments and building compliance and privacy programs for large and small companies. She has a Juris Doctorate from Hamline University with specializations in Healthcare Compliance and International Business Negotiation as well as a Certification in Healthcare Privacy Compliance from the Healthcare Compliance Association. 

Rob Moormann currently serves as Privacy Lead at The Ohio State University, overseeing the creation and implementation of the Privacy Program and ensuring compliance with state, federal, and international regulations. Additionally, Rob reviews, drafts, and develops policies, conducts risk assessments and privacy impact assessments, and collaborates across the entire university and medical center enterprise on privacy issues. Rob’s prior roles at the university include Director of Compliance and Director of Public Records. Before his work in higher education, Rob began his legal career at the Office of the Ohio Attorney General.  

Stephen Collette, Manager, Privacy Operations, manages the Privacy Operations team within the Office of the CIO at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Prior to joining University of Illinois, Stephen worked at a Fortune 1000 company where he led both its Records and Information Management program and their multinational privacy program for its headquarters organization and the nine distinct institutions it owned.