Executive Team

Samantha Vaughan

Chief Privacy Officer

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Samantha Vaughan is Verisk’s chief privacy
officer. She leads the development and
implementation of policies that protect the data
entrusted to Verisk and helps ensure the integrity
of the company’s data practices, regulation, and
compliance.

Samantha came to Verisk from Dell
Technologies, where she was managing director
and global head of privacy legal. Before Dell, she
was the senior vice president of corporate ethics
& compliance and chief privacy officer for
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. She worked in the
financial services industry for Prudential
Financial, AIG, and Selective for over 14 years
before joining Wyndham in 2012.

Samantha holds a JD from Fordham University
School of Law and a BA in political science from
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. She
also holds the Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP)
designation and six privacy certifications from
the International Association of Privacy
Professionals including the Artificial Intelligence
Governance Professional (AIGP) certification.
She also holds the ECPC-B European Data
Protection Officer certification from Maastricht
University.

She’s earned Artificial Intelligence executive
education course certificates from the London
School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),
the MIT Sloan School of
Management/Schwarzman College of
Computing and the Harvard Data Science
Initiative.

Samantha is a past chair of the Advisory Board
on Compliance Programs for the Fordham
University School of Law, as well as the
Compliance and Privacy Working Group of the
Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA). She
received the BELA Beacon award in 2020 in
recognition of her work and thought leadership,
from a field of nearly 400 BELA members.

Samantha has also been a pro bono attorney
through the Pro Bono Partnership since 2014.

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