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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME:

Emily Thompson

VISA &/OR WORK PERMIT:

NA

RESIDENCE:

Crawley

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Professional - CIPP/E,

CIPP/M

Prince II Project Manager – Foundation,

Practitioner

AiiM Enterprise Records Manager – Practitioner,

Specialist, Master

EDUCATION:

University of Brighton

LLB Law with Business

1st class honours

Crawley College

3 A-Levels at grade A

COMPUTER SKILLS:

IT Literate

CURRENT EMPLOYER:

PwC

POSITION:

Senior Associate

REQUIRED SALARY:

£75 -80k

NOTICE PERIOD:

2 months

PROFILE

Emily is an information governance and data privacy consultant with over six years project management,

information governance and data protection and privacy consulting experience across a range industry

sectors. Emily’s legal background is complimented by her IAPP privacy professional certifications,

project management and records management certifications and project experience which have allowed

her to specialise in European data protection compliance audits and privacy related aspects of

information management projects and organisational change across all industries. Emily developed

PwC's GDPR Readiness Assessment Tool (The RAT) and is one of the PwC Network's leading experts

on the GDPR and its operational impacts on global entities.

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KEY PROJECTS

Managing a global compliance review (GDPR) for a major consultancy.

Assisting a global financial services entity on data protection and enterprise content

management for consolidation of compliance activities.

Assisting a large information governance transformation programme for a global professional

services group.

Undertaking GDPR readiness assessments for approximately 60 global entities.

Delivering in-house GDPR training to large media organisation

Technology review to map functionality to GDPR.

Project managed disclosure and legal review process for civil claim, value $4.3bn.

Project managed criminal workstream for forensic investigation into major privacy violations in

the media industry.

KEY EXPERIENCE

Building GDPR assessment toolkits for highly distributed global groups.

Conducting assessments for 60+ global organisations on enterprise readiness to comply with

major new regulatory regimes (GDPR).

Consulting on technology functionality mapping to support compliance with major new regulatory

regimes (GDPR).

Consulting on major projects, including developing enterprise content management strategy,

routemap and remediation.

Project management for document disclosure and legal review during major litigation and

investigations.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

2015-Present

PwC Legal Cyber Security and Data Protection

Senior Associate

PwC’s global GDPR assessment lead

Designed and built PwC’s international automated compliance assessment tool for GDPR

Delivered 60+ assessments of global organisations readiness to comply with GDPR

Trained PwC network firm assurance practitioners to deliver GDPR assessments across multiple

territories inside and outside of the EU (inc, Japan, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland,

USA, Greece, Isle of Man, others)

Expanded GDPR assessment tool’s application to multi-territory reviews

Project manager for 3 multi territory privacy transformation engagements

Developed ‘toolkit’ for GDPR compliance for highly distributed global media organization

Undertook data protection impact assessment for SCV/ personalization project for major

television broadcaster

Undertook records and information management assurance review for another major television

broadcaster

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Undertook assessment of 12 enterprise content management and security technologies against

GDPR for global technology provider – made recommendations relating to technology

configuration and deployment, product packaging for GDPR, go to market strategy. Currently

supporting go to market campaign.

Managed strategic alliance with technology vendor

2011 to 2015

PwC Forensic Technology Solutions

Consultant

July 2015 – Dec 2015 – Multi- territory compliance review (Data Protection Directive) (Global

pharmaceutical).

Developed new automated maturity analysis method

Assessment against current data protection regime, including comparative analysis of 10 EU

territories

June 2015 – Nov 2015 – Multi- territory compliance review (Data Protection Directive) (Global

asset manager)

Assessment leading to 13 major recommendations accepted; including regulatory heat map,

policy review (info gov, data protection and security), maturity assessments/ gap analysis in all

locations, data profile and audit, data remediation.

June 2015 – Nov 2015 – Records and information management maturity assessment (Travel and

financial products).Developed assessment materials

Sept 2014 – April 2015 – Privacy Impact Assessment (Swiss bank)

Tailored privacy impact assessment methodology for global financial services client

consolidating compliance activities into regional centres of excellence.

June 2012 – Aug 2014 – Information governance transformation (Professional services)

Developed information governance policy framework and related policies and guidance

documentation, aligned to global standards, for FTSE 100 corporation

June 2012 – Aug 2015 UK Gender Balance Network project manager

Alignment of network strategy to firmwide strategy for diversity and inclusion

2011 – 2015 SRA accredited law firm training provider

SRA accreditation to develop/assess continuing professional development modules for solicitors

Aug 2011 – Oct 2011: Forensic investigation - project management support (Entertainment,

media and communications)

Project management support - high profile/highly confidential engagement involving class action

law suits, police investigation and public enquiry

Jan 2011 – Aug 2011: Forensic data disclosure - project management support (Russian bank)

Managed the disclosure process for three high profile civil litigation claims with a combined value

in excess of $4.3bn (financial services industry)

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Active Navigation – Enterprise Content Management

Consultant

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Enterprise information management and governance

Enterprise content management and forensic technologies

Regulatory compliance Project management

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

I have a tricolor Gypsy Vanner cross Thoroughbred and a Belgian Warmblood that I compete

show jumping and cross country at county level

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