Jill Nissen

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ABOUT JILL NISSEN

Jill Nissen is an accomplished legal and strategic business executive with 20+ years of experience helping companies solve complex legal, business and policy matters. Working in Washington DC and in Silicon Valley she has helped to shape key issues of importance to Internet companies, including privacy, online safety and intellectual property. She founded Nissen Consulting in December 2011 and served as the Acting, CPO of Gigya, Inc. from 20••••14. Jill currently serves as a privacy advisor to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, ClassDojo, Khan Academy and Code.org helping them navigate the complex legal landscape of student privacy in the rapidly evolving privacy and education technology space. Prior to this, Jill served on the management team at Ning, as V.P. and Chief Policy Officer and as Chief Intellectual Property and Policy Counsel. Jill established and led Ning’s global policy and government relations function, developing strategy, vision, internal and external protocol and innovative best practices for all global policy matters, including privacy, child online safety, DMCA, content regulation and user-generated content matters. Her role included acting as Chief Privacy Officer where she set company-wide privacy strategy and advised on all national and international privacy matters, including COPPA compliance, product review, privacy policies, data collection and behavioral advertising.Because of her expertise, Jill has been personally tapped by industry, NGO\'s and government to participate in various roundtables, government reviews and high level policy groups, including, being appointed in 2009 as one of 30 experts to serve a 15-month term to the Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG) established by Congress. Jill also worked for 7 years as both a Corporate and Technology Transactions Senior Associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her practice focused on intellectual property, privacy, licensing and commercial transactions.