Sylvia has over 15 years‘ experience providing strategic, risk management and compliance advisory services, serving both the public and private sectors. She advises executive teams on data-driven digital strategies to support major business transformations in alignment with new regulations, policy and data governance trends, having successfully deployed automated privacy solutions and national data registries.

Her specialty is transforming existing corporate compliance and privacy programs in response to internal audits, regulatory findings and investigations. She often deals with Privacy Commissioners remediating compliance orders, and has advised on some of the largest, high-profile data breach investigations. 

Sylvia is a lawyer by training and often advises on the intersection of emerging technologies, trustworthy AI, ethical use of data, and managing regulatory expectations. Her privacy career began at the Information Privacy Commissioner’s Office where she conducted extensive pan-Canadian privacy reviews involving consent management, cross-border data flows, data sharing models and outsourcing issues, and amended privacy regulations to enable registries to operate seamlessly for eHealth initiatives. She has advised organizations extensively on Privacy by Design engineering approaches, CASL requirements and consent management solutions.

Sylvia launched the Privacy by Design Certification Program together with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, former provincial privacy regulator, for readiness against the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), having successfully certified several global organizations for proof of compliance to privacy regulators.