Dave McDermitt

About Dave McDermitt

Privacy and information security executive with 20+ years building programs for Fortune 500 institutions, global technology companies, and the U.S. Federal Reserve System.As Global Privacy Director at Remitly, I built the privacy program from the ground up, delivering a 27% improvement in maturity (NIST-P/COBIT), Data Privacy Framework certification for EU/UK–U.S. transfers, launched a comprehensive data deletion program achieving 100% adoption across priority system while programmatically deleting over 200k expired records, and reduced DSAR fulfillment time by 75% while absorbing a 21x surge in request volume with 100% regulatory SLA compliance. Previously at Amazon, I delivered 700+ regulatory responses across software services, generating $12M+ in direct savings and anticipated hundreds of millions in penalty avoidance. At USAA, I led 180 professionals as VP, CISO & CPO protecting 11.5 million members of a Fortune 114 company. At the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, I served as VP, CISO for the Sixth District, advising the Bank President, COO, and Board of Directors.Regulatory expertise: GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, CIPA, Quebec Law 25, PIPEDA, UK Data Use and Access Act, EU AI Act, and Colorado AI Act — with active program leadership in each.2014 Southeast Information Security Executive of the Year · U.S. Navy veteran · Naval Postgraduate School, Stanford & Harvard · Open to CPO and DPO opportunities.

Experience

1. Global Privacy Director

   Remitly

   Apr 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Built and scaled the global privacy program for a publicly traded international money transfer company operating across 170+ countries. Transformed the program within nine months from a data inventory exercise into a mature, board-accountable function spanning Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and Operations. Launched a full featured data deletion automation and orchestration solution achieving 100% adoption across priority systems, programmatically deleting 200k expired customer records with zero production impact. Reduced DSAR fulfillment time by 75% while managing a 21x surge in request volume with 100% regulatory SLA compliance Drove privacy maturity asbmeasured by NIST-P/COBIT score improvement of ~27% year-over-year Secured Data Privacy Framework certification for EU/UK–U.S. data transfers; addressed 64 GDPR compliance recommendations Team of 6 across 5 countries

Education

• Auburn University

  BS, Management Information Systems

• Harvard Kennedy School

  Executive Education

  2014 — 2014

• Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business

  Southeast CIO Institute

  2013 — 2013

• Naval Postgraduate School

  MS, Information Technology Mgt

  1993 — 1995