Joanne is a strategic public company business executive, board-level advisor, and an award-winning global legal leader with over 15 years of experience in the technology sector. She is the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at Rackspace Technology - a NASDAQ listed leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company.

Joanne is a US licensed attorney and a solicitor in England & Wales. She is a published legal thought leader, and a certified corporate director by the National Association of Corporate Directors. She is an experienced privacy and cybersecurity professional holding multiple certifications by the International Association of Privacy Professionals and (ISC)², and is a COSO certified enterprise risk manager. She has a BSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Sheffield, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice from the University of Oxford, and an MBA with distinction from Imperial College London, where she was also the Dean's Excellence Award Scholar.

Joanne is open to additional board service opportunities where she can leverage her expertise and insights to help organizations navigate the complex and evolving legal, regulatory and business landscape. Her board-level expertise is particularly aligned to audit and risk committee service including • corporate governance • compliance • cybersecurity regulation & risk oversight • data privacy • intellectual property • enterprise risk management • crisis management • technology • cloud computing & emerging technologies.

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Hi I’m Brittany! Nice to meet you! I’m a General Counsel and I currently manage a multinational company and its subsidiaries. I am a strategic partner in a global private equity backed company. I manage a dedicated legal team that continues to thrive year over year.

My passion is seeing businesses thrive and helping facilitate those successes. Providing a unique approach by strategically reviewing documents from both a business and legal perspective to protect the legal interests of the company, while also knowing that business deals need these documents to continue moving forward.

I thrive in building collaborate relationships across departments and strategically expanding in global markets to maximize business opportunity while minimizing risk.

I provide legal advice and strategic leadership on all things related to the company from tech deployment, SaaS negotiations, community planning, employment relations, data privacy, M&A transactions and everything in between. I also have experience with litigation, managing outside counsel, and IP protection.

Can I just say if it’s legally related it’s probably slid across my desk?!

I am also considered a legal influencer (that still makes me chuckle, but yes I am super proud of it) where I post daily content on LinkedIn. I am on a mission to disrupt the legal industry by creating change content on GC life, career happiness, positivity, and showing how you go from feeling stuck and buttoned up to success and happiness.

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As Senior Counsel, Cyber & National Security, I play a key role in advising Cisco's product teams on emerging and existing cybersecurity and national security regulations worldwide, and developing implementation plans to meet our compliance obligations and customer expectations in these areas. Before supporting Regulatory Affairs, I made a strong impact as product counsel for several Cisco cloud-based cybersecurity offerings including Duo and Secure Email, and have a wealth of experience in the security and compliance space. I am also a thought leader in legal issues related to cybersecurity and technology, having spoken at the RSA cybersecurity conference and published articles in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology and Michigan Bar Journal.