Chris has over 40 years of experience in Europe, the USA and Asia/Pacific including senior roles at agencies, brands and marketing technology companies.

Chris launched his career in Los Angeles in TV Production before joining Young & Rubicam NY in 1982. His 12 years at Y&R included 5 years in Asia, from 1989, initially as regional account director for Dentsu Young & Rubicam (DY&R) and then as General Manager of Wunderman Hong Kong before founding the Wunderman office in Singapore in 1992. Chris moved to London in 1994 as European media and sourcing director for Franklin Mint and created his own on-line catalogue company (Living Heritage) in 1998. From 2000 to 2009, Chris developed Emailvision (now Smartfocus) into Europe’s leading email service provider (ESP) in his dual roles of Chief Operating Officer and UK Managing Director.

In addition to his commercial activity, Chris has taken a lead in industry issues including legislation, best practice and education. His industry roles include being Co-Chair of FEDMA, Chair of the JIC Mail board, and seats on the boards of the Advertising Association, Asbof and CAP.

Andrew began his career in Technology within Civil Engineering sector with a focus on technology solutions across transport systems. Following this he moved into leadership roles in Construction and Utilities sectors.

Moving into Energy – He held senior leadership roles with a focus on Digital, Transformation and redesigned Target Operating Model development across global organisations.

In September 2019 Andrew was appointed as Police Scotland’s first Chief Digital and Information Officer. Joining the Police Scotland Executive Command & Leadership Team, Andrew has overseen a wide portfolio consisting of Transformation, Digital & Data Division, Service Design and Innovation.

He is the Senior Responsible Officer for a range of programmes including Digital Evidence Sharing Capability, National Body worn Video Programme and Digital Contact.

Jenny has been with the ICO since 2018. In that time she has worked with a wide range of stakeholders from all sectors in Scotland providing regulatory input and guidance on a national issues and policy proposals. She currently leads the Scottish Affairs team at the ICO.

Prior to joining the ICO Jenny worked at the Carnegie UK Trust on a variety of policy advocacy and research projects including those centred on public service reform and evidence based policy and practice. She has also held a number of third sector roles.

A biologist by training Jenny has spent time in molecular biology research labs and has always had a  love of data.

Her interest is in how data protection can help support the delivery of policy and practice that leads to improvements in people’s lives.

A librarian by trade, Helen has worked in records and information management, IKM, information governance and data protection in public and private sector organisations in Scotland and New Zealand.  Helen is currently Head of the Knowledge and Information Shared Services branch of the Scottish Government and Chair of the Stats Public Benefit and Privacy Panel, and has a particular interest in the use of AI to facilitate and improve the management of records through their entire lifecycle

Chris has over 40 years of experience in Europe, the USA and Asia/Pacific including senior roles at agencies, brands and marketing technology companies.

Chris launched his career in Los Angeles in TV Production before joining Young & Rubicam NY in 1982. His 12 years at Y&R included 5 years in Asia, from 1989, initially as regional account director for Dentsu Young & Rubicam (DY&R) and then as General Manager of Wunderman Hong Kong before founding the Wunderman office in Singapore in 1992. Chris moved to London in 1994 as European media and sourcing director for Franklin Mint and created his own on-line catalogue company (Living Heritage) in 1998. From 2000 to 2009, Chris developed Emailvision (now Smartfocus) into Europe’s leading email service provider (ESP) in his dual roles of Chief Operating Officer and UK Managing Director.

In addition to his commercial activity, Chris has taken a lead in industry issues including legislation, best practice and education. His industry roles include being Co-Chair of FEDMA, Chair of the JIC Mail board, and seats on the boards of the Advertising Association, Asbof and CAP.

Diego leads on operations at SBC. He has day-to-day responsibility for operational matters including external assurance activity. Diego has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental policy issues of societal importance – human rights, technologies, criminal justice, climate policy and corporate actors– working at the interface of policy and practice in Scotland, the EU and the UK. He is passionate about fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations and cross-sector partnerships to co-create pathways for innovation that improves services, policy, and the law.

Diego currently serves on a number of technology and biometrics expert groups, including on the Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing. Diego also served on the Independent Advisory Group on the Use of Biometric Data in Scotland and the Scottish Government Forensic Data Working Group on Acquisition and Retention of DNA and Fingerprints. 

Before joining SBC Diego led the policy and international areas at the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Diego has also worked as an independent expert for the European Commission’s TAIEX in a number of countries, including Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Previously, Diego held a lectureship in Law at the Robert Gordon University and worked with the former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Prof. John Ruggie, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has published widely on human rights, including on technology. Diego is a qualified lawyer in Colombia and worked as an in-house lawyer for a financial institution.