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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