Deborah Adleman is a strategy-driven and practical, results oriented leader recognized for enabling future-focused enterprise-wide data protection risk management, AI governance and ethics & compliance programs. Her evolved experience in leadership at a Big Four firm combined with a successful consulting career brings a global, IT engineering, and business process outcomes mindset to data governance, process improvement and teamwork. Deborah was the US & Americas Data Protection Risk Management Leader for Ernst & Young for over a decade. While at EY, Deborah led EY’s US and Americas’ data protection risk, ethics and compliance program strategy and implementation across 50,000 employees. She has since started her own single person consultancy, continuing her tradition of helping companies leverage risk to empower their teams to perform accountably, with integrity in the midst of uncertainty. Deborah is a regularly sought after speaker who recently provided subject matter expertise for the IAPP’s new Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) certification.

She has her Bachelors of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and has various governance, ethics and privacy certifications.