Ken Battista is an information technology professional whose career has spanned more than 35 years. Ken has worked in the telecom industry for the past 25 years with Alltel Wireless and Verizon Wireless. He had responsibility for privacy office operational management which included: privacy incident management, business partners’ privacy risk and security assessments and analysis, including corrective action mitigation in order to protect sensitive and personal information. He also had responsibility for developing and implementing privacy and information security policies and standards in large enterprise organizations. In addition, he has been a privacy advocate and provided privacy and information security best practices awareness corporate-wide. During his career he also has had responsibility for software development, systems support, disaster recovery and business continuity, client relationship management, as well as privacy office management.
Ken is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and has earned the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) certificate. He retired from Verizon Wireless in 2013.
Ken is a graduate of King's College, Pennsylvania.