Dr. Galina Datskovsky, CRM, FAI, and serial entrepreneur is an internationally recognized privacy, compliance, and security expert. Galina was the CEO of Vaporstream®, a position where she applied her knowledge and strategic guidance in building businesses, product development, governance policies, as well as cybersecurity. Prior to Vaporstream, Galina served as CEO of Covertix, North America; Senior Vice President of Information Governance at Autonomy/HP; and as General Manager of the Information Governance Business Unit and Senior Vice President of Architecture while at CA. She joined CA in 2006 with the acquisition of MDY Group International, where she was the founder and CEO.

In addition, Galina currently sits on the advisory board of the Executive Woman’s Forum (EWF) and is part of the Voice Privacy Alliance. She is a champion of the entrepreneurial spirit as she has served on the board of multiple start-ups, assisting with strategy and continues to support the start-up community. Galina served as Chair, President, President Elect, and Director of ARMA International (2007-2013) and has been widely published in academic journals, speaking frequently for industry organizations such as AIIM, ARMA SINET, EWF, ILTA, IQPC, and MER. Throughout Galina’s career she has been the recipient of numerous awards. Most notably she was designated a Distinguished Engineer while at CA (2006-10), was the recipient of the prestigious Emmet Leahy award (2013), and was named a Fellow of ARMA International (2014)

Prior to founding MDY, Galina consulted for IBM and Bell Labs and taught at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She earned her doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University.