Vivek Narayanadas, CIPP/E, CIPP/US

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Vice President, Deputy General Counsel

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.

 

Contributions by Vivek Narayanadas

  • The Inside Scoop for Outside Counsel: Insights from Corporate Privacy Leaders
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021
  • Building Ethical Decision Making into Legal Advice on Data Protection
    Speaker at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online
  • CCPA Final Regulations
    Speaker at Virtual San Diego KnowledgeNet: June 25, 2020
  • Building Ethical Decision Making into Legal Advice on Data Protection
    Web Conference Speaker
  • A Theory of Everything: Is Harmonization of Privacy Laws Even Possible?
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019
  • ‘Full Funnel’: Advanced Advertising and Marketing Technology Explained
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019
  • Canadian Privacy Bar Section Forum
    Forum Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2019