Michelle Dennedy

Michelle Finneran Dennedy currently serves as Board Member and Advisor to data centric technology organizations. In addition, Zen Data Privacy software is designed to bridge the gap between global regulatory requirements and the software that violates them every day. Dennedy serves as Zen CEO. Privatus Consulting is the home of Wicked Privacy™ and assists clients with metrics, methodologies, and mentorship to build and accelerate data protection practices. Dennedy serves as Partner. She is the co-author of The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto and The Privacy Engineer’s Companion. Before working at Zen and Privatus, Dennedy was a VP and Chief Privacy Officer at Cisco. She was responsible for the development and implementation of the organization’s data privacy policies and practices.