About the IAPP

Benjamin Brook

Transcend

Co-Founder and CEO

Ben Brook is the CEO and co-founder of Transcend, a data privacy technology company headquartered in San Francisco. Backed by Accel and Index Ventures, Transcend makes it simple for companies to give users control over their data, and is building engineering solutions to chart the path forward for modern data rights. Prior to co-founding Transcend, Brook studied computer science, astrophysics, and neuroscience at Harvard University. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Brook is a passionate and award-winning filmmaker. In his spare time, he works on open source projects, studies guitar & piano, and plays rugby.

Contributions by Benjamin Brook

• Practitioner's Guide to AI Governance: Insights from Legal, AI & Privacy Leaders
  Speaker at AI Governance Global 2024
• AI Governance in 2024 — A Master Class for Privacy Professionals
  Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
• Generative AI Governance 101—A Masterclass for Privacy Pros
  Web Conference Speaker
• Privacy Enablement: Building Privacy Solutions That Drive Business Growth
  Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
• The Privacy Tech Stack, Decoded
  Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022
• Structured versus unstructured data, an engineer’s take on the privacy implications 
  The Privacy Advisor
• The disciplines of modern data privacy engineering
  Privacy Tech