WISP Board


Rachel Tobac

Chair of the Board

Rachel is a hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security where she helps people and companies keep their data safe by training and pentesting them on social engineering risks.

In her remaining spare time, Rachel is the Chair of the Board for the nonprofit Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) where she works to advance women to lead in the fields.

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Elena Elkina, JD, LLM, CIPP/US, CIPP/EU, CIPT, CIPM

Co-Founder l Board Member

For Elena Elkina, privacy and information security hit close to home. Her childhood in a secret city in the Soviet Union morphed into a driving need to safeguard data of businesses and individuals, especially those who are unaware of their own risk and vulnerability.

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Alya Franklin, CIPP/US, CIPT, CDPSE, CISA, CRISC, PMP

Co-Founder | Board Member | Treasurer | Webmaster

Alya is a partner and co-founder of Aleada Consulting, a privacy and data protection consulting firm. She helps companies comply with legal privacy obligations while helping them innovate and change their culture so they can build consumer trust and operate in a more privacy-aware environment.

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Kenesa Ahmad, JD, LLM, CIPP/USBoard Member | Expansion Co-Founder- Partner, Aleada Consulting- Privacy Associate, Promontory Financial Group- 2010-2012 Legal & Policy Fellow at Future of Privacy Forum- Co-author, principal textbooks for the IAPP…

Kenesa Ahmad JD, LL.M., CIPP/USJD

Co-Founder | Board Member

Kenesa Ahmad is a co-founder and Partner at Aleada Consulting. Kenesa assists clients with developing and implementing global privacy and data protection programs, assessing multijurisdictional legal and regulatory obligations, and integrating privacy protections into emerging technology.

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K. Anna Vaccari, LLM, CIPP/US

Co-Founder l Board Member

Anna is a privacy lawyer, licensed in California and Germany, and certified with the IAPP (CIPP/US). She currently works as Privacy Counsel at Meta.

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Alyssa Coley, Esq., CIPP/US

Board Member | Event Liaison

Alyssa recently became Privacy Counsel for Products at RingCentral following her experience in privacy consulting and data breach/incident response work. She has been involved with WISP for over 6 years where she developed her interest in locksport.

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Sheila Pham, Esq., CIPP/US, CIPP/EU

Board Member

Sheila is a legal privacy director at RingCentral and formerly practiced data privacy/cybersecurity at Troutman Pepper. She first joined WISP in 2016 and led the effort to expand WISP into other regions.

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Irene Mo

Board Member I Community Lead

Irene is an attorney with experience counseling clients on United States and international privacy and data protection laws and regulations. She is skilled in distilling complex legal issues into practical and actionable legal guidance. She has helped companies of all sizes, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500, build and scale their privacy and data security compliance programs.

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