About the IAPP

Vivek Narayanadas serves as Shopify's Associate General Counsel and Data Protection Officer, where he leads the company's privacy, data protection, and intellectual property teams. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring that Shopify complies with, and that its merchants are able to comply with, the complex set of global privacy and data protection laws that may apply to their business. Before joining Shopify, he served as Senior Counsel and Data Protection Officer at Rubicon Project, a technology platform in the advertising space. Before moving in-house, Vivek was a litigator in private practice for many years, where he focused on appellate and complex class action matters relating to issues of privacy and constitutional law.