About the IAPP

As Chief Privacy Officer for the County of Santa Clara, Mr. Pahl brings more than two decades of experience in privacy and cybersecurity. Mr. Pahl is a seasoned privacy and compliance program executive who has led large teams focused on global data protection programs. His professional career demonstrates a history of effective oversight and adoption of new privacy standards to complex operations. He has deep expertise in a wide range of functions related to risk management, ranging from handling of day-to-day incident responses to investigations of significant, complex privacy issues. He has also developed policies, training, communications, incident management, and monitoring and governance of compliance reporting. He is a Fellow of Information Privacy with the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a certified Information Privacy Professional.