10th Annual Privacy and Security Conference Speaker Biography


Eric Ashdown

Eric is a Partner at Accenture and Global Service Line Lead for Security Strategy & Risk Management. This part of the overall Security practice looks across an enterprise and focuses on strategic level engagement with customers. Eric has over 25 years of business experience, 11 years in financial services and the last 14 years in security and risk management. He recently joined Accenture from Microsoft where he was Sr. Director of Risk Management for Business Online Services - Microsoft's Business Cloud Computing effort. During his MSFT time he was CSO and Regional Privacy Lead for Greater China. Prior MSFT, Eric was a Partner and National Director for Ernst & Young's Technology & Security Risk Services practice based in Hong Kong. He was an early TRUSTe founding member, has severed on the ANSI X9F Standards and most recently the Trusted Computing Group.

Eric holds an MBA in International Business from the George Washington University and a BA in International Studies from the University of the Pacific.