PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Finance now sits at the center of data strategy, technology investment, and cyber risk. This session gives you a practical playbook for evaluating systems, protecting sensitive financial data, and turning analytics into faster, sharper decisions. We will focus on where CFOs add the most value in the digital agenda.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Evaluate finance technology and automation investments against real business outcomes.
- Assess cybersecurity risks and understand the CFO’s role in mitigating them.
- Use data and analytics to strengthen forecasting, reporting, and strategic decisions.
SPEAKERS
Moderator: Peter Wolf | Partner | Mayer Brown
Pete Wolf serves clients in a wide range of transactions and corporate law matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Pete has extensive experience representing buyers and sellers in complex, cross-border carveout transactions. Pete works for publicly traded and privately owned companies in a variety of industries, including chemicals, agribusiness, energy (including renewables), oil & gas, infrastructure, automotive, steel, industrial manufacturing, life sciences, technology, financial services and wine & spirits. He also represents venture capital funds, CVCs, private credit groups, family offices, and founders and investors in connection with preferred equity financings of emerging companies.
Pete has been ranked on multiple occasions as an “Up & Coming” leading Corporate/M&A lawyer in Chambers USA.
Pete joined Mayer Brown in 2013 and is a partner in the Northern California office. Pete is the US leader of Mayer Brown’s Global Chemical Industry Group and is an active member in the Firm’s Agri, Food & Beverage Industry Group. He is also a member of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee.
Daniel Hansen | Managing Director | Protiviti’s IT Consulting and Security & Privacy Practices
Dan is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s IT Consulting Practice, where he leads the Security & Privacy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings over 16 years of experience in IT process and risk management, specializing in information security, IT audit, regulatory compliance, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
Throughout his career, Dan has led complex IT risk and compliance engagements across multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, high technology, and higher education. His experience includes Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) IT compliance, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) assessments, HIPAA security compliance, internal audit, disaster recovery planning, and business impact analysis. He has also helped organizations strengthen their security and privacy programs and align with industry standards, including NIST frameworks.
Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Brigham Young University. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (PCI-QSA), and Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP). He is also a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII).
Angela Jiang | President and Co-founder | Worktrace AI
Angela is a former OpenAI product leader. She was a product manager for the GPT models and helped bring the first versions of ChatGPT to market. She also led AI literacy work for policymakers. Before OpenAI, she was a product manager at Determined AI, which was acquired by HPE. She holds a PhD in machine learning systems from Carnegie Mellon.
Arsen Kourinian | Partner, in AI Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice | Mayer Brown
Arsen Kourinian is a regulatory and transactional attorney who advises clients regarding compliance with data privacy, adtech, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI) laws and navigating complex regulatory issues in mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, and other corporate deals.
Arsen is a recognized thought leader in data privacy, adtech, security, and AI. He has published extensively on nuanced issues in these fields, including an e-book on Bloomberg Law entitled Implementing A Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Program. He regularly presents on these topics for organizations and trade associations and works directly with companies to shape best practices in these rapidly evolving areas. Arsen was named a member of the State Bar of California’s Consulting Group on the Establishment of a Legal Specialization in Privacy Law and served on The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Privacy Implementation & Accountability Task Force, which brought together privacy leaders to address critical issues facing the adtech industry.
Arsen excels at translating complicated data privacy, adtech, cybersecurity, and AI regulations into practical contract provisions. He regularly advises deal teams on due diligence, risk allocation, and contractual protections across a wide range of transactions—including mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, outsourcing arrangements, cloud services, adtech and marketing, data processing, joint ventures, and AI agreements (including agentic AI). His deep understanding of both legal requirements and the operational realities of data-driven businesses allows him to craft contract terms that are commercially reasonable, operationally workable, and legally sound.
As a global counselor, Arsen advises multinational corporations on compliance with domestic and international data privacy, adtech, cybersecurity, and AI laws—including comprehensive data privacy (e.g., CCPA and GDPR) and AI laws (e.g., Colorado ADMT Act and EU AI Act), chatbot and AI transparency regulations, frontier model and AI developer laws, data broker requirements, and sector-specific rules covering employment, biometric, financial, health, and children’s data. He provides practical, operational guidance on harmonizing these overlapping requirements into uniform policies, procedures, and practices. Arsen’s advisory work spans organizational leadership policies, privacy and AI policies, data inventories, AI transparency notices, adtech and marketing counseling, cross-border data transfers, privacy and AI impact assessments, AI governance, privacy by design, and employee privacy. He stays at the forefront of evolving law and technology, including data collection and AI applications via remote sensing from outer space.
Arsen also represents companies in regulatory investigations and inquiries involving data privacy, adtech, AI, and data broker issues, as well as security incident response. He has a proven track record of guiding organizations through the legal complexities of such matters while mitigating risk.
Arsen holds the AI governance professional (AIGP), fellow of information privacy (FIP), certified information privacy manager (CIPM), and certified information privacy professional (CIPP) credentials from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) for the United States (CIPP/US), Europe (CIPP/E), Canada (CIPP/C), and Asia (CIPP/A). He also helps educate the next generation of data privacy, adtech, cybersecurity, and AI professionals—he authored the CIPP/US exam and the IAPP’s inaugural AI Governance Professional exam, serves on the IAPP’s advisory board for the development of the AI Legal Engineering exam, and is a guest lecturer at UCLA School of Law and UC Berkeley Law.
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