Herbert M. HEITMANN

Executive Vice President of External Communications, Royal Dutch Shell

As Executive Vice President of External Communications, Herbert Heitmann has been responsible for managing and safeguarding Shell’s reputation and brand-image worldwide since 1 June, 2010. He has years of experience in corporate and public communications, with a wide range of past experience in both the public and private sector. He took on the Chairmanship for the Digital Economy Commission in 2007.

Joseph H. ALHADEFF

Chief Privacy Strategist, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Oracle Corporation

As Chief Privacy Strategist and Vice President for Global Public Policy at Oracle Corporation, Joseph (Joe) Alhadeff oversees Oracle’s privacy programme to ensure protection of personal information across all Oracle operations and product areas. He is primarily responsible for coordinating and managing Oracle's international electronic commerce, privacy, and Internet-related policy issues.

Jacques BEGLINGER

Attorney-at-law, D.E.S.S., SwissHoldings, Federation of Industrial and Service Groups in Switzerland

Jacques Beglinger is an expert in information technology and communications law, including computer, copyright and other Intellectual property law, Internet communications law, mergers and acquisitions, and international construction. He also serves as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitration. Mr. Beglinger served as an expert to Swiss federal lawmaking and is a founding partner of the Swiss Center of Competence for Records Managaement as well as the founding president of the Swiss Business Data Protection Association.

Gerard B. J. HARTSINK

Senior Advisor Managing Board, ABN AMRO Bank, Chair, CLS Bank International, New York

Gerard Hartsink is a former Senior Executive Vice President of the ABN AMRO Group and had a career of managerial roles in Sales, Product Development, Information Management and Operations. He served in boards of several market infrastructures in the Securities, Payments, Forex and Cards industries and is currently the Chair of CLS Bank International in New York.

David A. HOFFMAN

Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer

David Hoffman is Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer at Intel Corporation, in which capacity he covers Intel’s privacy compliance activities, legal support for privacy and security and external privacy and security policy engagements. Mr. Hoffman serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of the National Cyber Security Alliance. Mr. Hoffman has also served on the US Federal Trade Commission’s Online Access and Security Committee, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Cyber Security Commission, the Steering Committee for BBBOnline, the TRUSTe Board of Directors, and the Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Mr. Hoffman has a JD from The Duke University School of Law, where he was a Member of the Duke Law Journal. Mr. Hoffman also received an AB from Hamilton College.

Christopher KUNER

Senior Of Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, LLP

Eric H. LOEB

Vice President of International External and Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Services, Inc.

Eric Loeb represents External Affairs on the leadership team of AT&T Business Services. He is also responsible for supporting AT&T’s team of international, external and regulatory affairs advocates located around the world. In addition to developing market access strategies that enable AT&T’s expansion to meet its customers’ needs, Mr Loeb’s other responsibilities include ensuring compliance with international telecom regulations, and advocacy on international policy matters related to the stable growth of the information and communications technology sector.

Christiaan VAN DER VALK

CEO, TrustWeaver

Christiaan van der Valk is co-founder of TrustWeaver, a Sweden-based provider of innovative software-as-a-service IT compliance solutions,which services many of the world’s largest corporations. He was elected a World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. From 1995 until 2001, he worked at ICC's Paris-based Secretariat, and served during his final years as Deputy Director of Policy and Business Practices. During his time at the ICC, Christiaan has also directly managed policy and self-regulatory activities relating to e-business, IT and telecoms. As an advisor to the Finish Ministry of Trade and Industry, he authored the 2001 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) E-Commerce Principles. He also sits on the Supervisory Board of the .nl domain registry foundation (SIDN), and is a member of the Executive Board of the Dutch ENUM Foundation.

Kim AMBLER

Principle, the Helix Policy Group

Kim Ambler initiated the Director of Industry and Policy Affairs position for the Boeing Company’s global IT organization, a role in which he developed Boeing’s international, federal, and state IT policy strategy. His responsibilities included vetting and coordinating the business impact of key policy issues with Boeing’s senior IT leadership and with the company’s legal, engineering, and governmental relations communities. Prior to this, Mr Ambler founded the federal telecom policy function at Boeing's office in Washington, DC.