About the IAPP

Hannah Poteat is a privacy and information security attorney with over 25 years of

experience in data protection, security, intellectual property, and internet policy, who

did privacy before privacy was cool. As LTK’s Assistant General Counsel of Privacy,

Hannah leads a team that finds innovative privacy and data protection solutions for

global influencer marketing and social shopping. Hannah knows that advertising and

privacy don’t have to be opposed.

Previously, Hannah led the Global Privacy team at Twilio, where she handled matters

including guidance of corporate policy in line with developing global privacy laws,

compliance with GDPR and binding corporate rules, incident response and security

policy development, and negotiation of data protection agreements. Hannah also built

GitHub’s privacy function from start-up to its acquisition by Microsoft. This work not

only involved taking GitHub from the demise of Safe Harbor through the

implementation of GDPR, but also included working closely with the machine learning

team to build privacy into the design of what would become GitHub Copilot.

Hannah is CIPP/US certified and was a founding Fellow at the Internet Law and Policy

Foundry. Prior to taking on a legal career, Hannah worked in information security for

fourteen years.

When Hannah isn’t chasing down new developments in state privacy laws, she can be

found driving a Bronco offroad or blowing glass into very strange shapes.