Ben Holt

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ABOUT BEN HOLT

With technology industry experience combined with legal and business education, Ben has a unique perspective enabling him to work with groups to produce results that make sense in the risk, legal, business and product realms.Ben Holt focuses his practice on privacy, risk, and intellectual property. He advises Fortune 500 companies, mid-size companies, foreign entities, and start-ups on cutting edge privacy risks and with global IP portfolio strategy.Privacy Experience:GDPR Compliance-Full Compliance Projects• Created Firm GDPR Compliance Tool to Measure GDPR Compliance• Guided Edu Company from 0% to 90% Compliance in 6 Months• Guided Retail Company from 0% to Comfort Level Compliance in 3 Months• Guided Product Company from 0% to Comfort Level Privacy Compliance in 2 Months• Each Privacy Office was Built to be Taken Over After I Left-Partial Compliance Projects• Aided over 40 companies with GDPR Compliance• Enable Cross-border data transfer through Standard Contract Clauses, Binding Corp Res.• Created and Edited over 100 Policies and Procedures • Creation of Numerous Compliant Website Privacy Policies-Compliance Projects• Revised Policies for Tech Company to Match Vendor and Customer Contract Requirements• Revisions to Website Privacy Policies to Match Contract Requirements• Prepare Roadmap for Controls for Contract ComplianceCCPA Compliance-Compliance Projects• Aided Edu company to dovetail CCPA compliance with GDPR compliance to reduce costs• Worked Together with In-House Counsel of manufacturing group to revise policies and procedures with roadmap to CCPA compliance• Advise IT on Controls Required for CCPA and CCPA 2.0 (CPRA) Compliance• Helped Over 20 Companies with CCPA ComplianceData Security-Data Breach Experience• Document Review for Breach Disclosure• Assisted Clients with RADAR use and sanity check for Notification Steps• Technical Advisor for Response Questions from Office of Civil RightsData Security Experience• Bridged Legal with IT to Prepare Roadmap to Privacy Compliance• Built or Revised Emergency Response Plan for Over 10 CompaniesTraining-Compliance Experience• Frequent Speaker on Privacy and Data Security• Built Training Programs and Presentations based on Policies & ProceduresAs a patent attorney, Ben’s work has included cloud computing solutions, video games, digital fingerprinting and secure computing technologies - including platform technologies including storage, advertising, computing, access control and security.Ben was formerly a project lead and embedded engineer in Salt Lake City.