Lars Vinden

Legal counsel with 10 + years of experience with privacy & data protection in digital environments, and a great passion for the intersection between technology, law and business development.

Expertise in tech-driven collection and processing of data, including big data analytics, online advertising, IoT and telecommunications. Enabler of large and complex data processing initiatives such as the development of ad & IoT platforms, ID solutions and crowd analytics services by adopting scalable Privacy by Design frameworks in combination with traditional compliance and risk activities.

Significant experience in influencing management, business partners and other key stakeholders on strategic issues related to data collection, privacy and risk management in multinational and fast moving environments. Hands on involvement in addressing privacy operationally in a wide range of companies, from start-ups to large multinational corporations, from web-only services such as FINN (Norway), Blocket (Sweden) and LeBonCoin (France) to heavily regulated industries such as insurance and telcos.

Proven track record of building trust and strong relations with both business, technology/developers and data protection regulators. Excellent communicator, equally capable of dealing with high intensive media situations, public speaking assignments and C-level presentations.