Derek Lackey
Chairman
Derek is Managing Director of Newport Thomson, a data protection & privacy Trusted Advisory firm based in Toronto. With more than 30 years of marketing and advertising experience, he is focussed on data protection & privacy and its effect on the brand. The author of CASL Compliance: A Marketer’s Guide to Email Marketing to Canadians, he looks to simplify the implementation of new data management practices within organizations.
He is very active in the privacy community chairing the Guidance Committee, Canadian Advisory Council – GDPR, co-chair, IAPP Toronto Chapter – 2020/2021, committee member on ISO 31700 – Privacy by Design for Consumer Products, the CEN CENELEC JTC 13 on Cybersecurity and Data Protection and the new Standard Council of Canada’s initiative - Data Governance Standardization Collaborative (DGSC) as well as being a Committee member of the CIO Strategy Council’s Privacy - Part 1: Qualification and proficiency of privacy and access control professionals initiative.
He is very active in the privacy community chairing the Guidance Committee, Canadian Advisory Council – GDPR, co-chair, IAPP Toronto Chapter – 2020/2021, committee member on ISO 31700 – Privacy by Design for Consumer Products, the CEN CENELEC JTC 13 on Cybersecurity and Data Protection and the new Standard Council of Canada’s initiative - Data Governance Standardization Collaborative (DGSC) as well as being a Committee member of the CIO Strategy Council’s Privacy - Part 1: Qualification and proficiency of privacy and access control professionals initiative.
Educated in Marketing at University of Toronto, Derek applies creativity to his business strategy while placing a strong emphasis on results.
