About the IAPP

Chris has over two decades of experience in information security, data privacy, and digital transformation; leading the business, design & delivery of innovative and effective solutions for complex and diverse challenges in various industries

He has held various business and technical leadership roles in Advertising & Media/Communications,

Contact Centre/Collaboration Technologies, Digital Identity, Strategy Management/Advisory Services, Information Security, as well as GRC areas in regulated industries such as telecommunications, cloud & financial services.

As Technical Leader at Cisco, he collaborates with global customers, teams and partners to provide strategic guidance, technical advice, and thought leadership in Mobile Communications, Cloud, Enterprise Security Architectures, Managed Services, and Digital Trust.

Chris is a Fellow of Information Privacy and an active member of the Asia and Privacy Engineering Section Advisory Boards of the IAPP, where he contributes to the development and promotion of the profession, privacy engineering and domains of digital responsibility.

He is also a member of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2), a Member of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project® Foundation (OWASP), a Member of the Internet Society, a Corporate Member with Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), as well as being a Professional Member of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). 

Chris is deeply passionate about advancing the professions of Digital Trust and information security to empower organizations and individuals to protect their data and assets in the information economy.