DATA PRIVACY, SECURITY & AI TRACK: Preparing Your Incident Response Plan

Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Michael Hollerich is a managing director in BRG’s Financial Institution Advisory practice based in Dallas. He is a seasoned executive with over thirty years of domestic and international experience in financial services and consulting. He brings a wealth of expertise in areas such as regulatory affairs, corporate governance, anti-money laundering, fraud detection, mergers and acquisitions, and banking-as-a-service (BaaS). He has a strong understanding of small, medium, and large institutions across various markets and throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Before joining BRG, Mr. Hollerich operated a private consulting firm, Hollerich Consulting, LLC, which he founded in 2018. He has worked in advisory and executive roles with large international banking organizations and small- to mid-sized regional banks, non-depositories, and fintechs. He served as chief compliance officer for two publicly traded financial services firms (one a top ten US mortgage servicer) with locations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the US Virgin Islands. Throughout his career, Mr. Hollerich has spearheaded initiatives that have resolved some of the largest regulatory actions taken against the financial services industry, resulting in the avoidance of potential billion-dollar fines while implementing effective remediation and oversight programs. He has also played leadership roles in large-scale mergers and acquisitions and was instrumental to the merger of two large, non-depository mortgage servicers, establishing regulatory relationships and corporate governance strategies that facilitated transaction approvals from over thirty state and federal banking commissioners.

Partner, Cooley LLP

Michael Egan has focused on cyber/data/privacy issues in the areas of technology, innovation, retail and consumer solutions, life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare since 2007. He advises clients on all legal aspects of global privacy and data protection, data security, data breach, information technology, and related restrictions on data collection and transfer. Egan has represented companies before numerous government agencies and bodies, including the US Federal Trade Commission, the US Department of Justice, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as data protection authorities around the world, regarding disclosure of data security compliance issues, internal investigation findings, remediation measures and settlement terms. Egan’s practice focuses primarily on the ever-changing privacy and security regulatory landscape faced by companies in the US and globally. He also advises companies on how best to address the requirements related to personal data, consumer protection, data security and breach preparation and response, cookies and marketing, cross-border data flows, e-monitoring, eDiscovery procedures, outsourcing, social media, and other privacy-related issues.

Senior Partner, Garris Horn LLP

Levonick is a seasoned lawyer who focuses on consumer finance, capital markets, and technology. With insight gained from years of experience as Chief Executive Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Levonick understands the dynamic and everchanging finance and technology markets. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, complex financial instruments, launching of digital products and services, deploying secure cloud infrastructures, and supporting global technology companies within the heavily regulated U.S. financial markets. Levonick has advised heavily regulated clients on a wide variety of transactional matters relating to asset purchase and sale agreements, RMBS issuances, information technology, licensing and master service agreements, software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing (IaaS), cloud services (PaaS), website development and terms of use, cybersecurity, privacy, and vendor management. Most recently, Levonick cofounded an emerging tech-enabled mortgage services third-party review and due diligence firm, and has worked within Consumer Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain workgroups at AmLaw 100 firms, he has held roles such as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at Accenture Mortgage Cadence, and leadership roles at wholly owned subsidiaries of companies such as Wipro, Radian and Fiserv. Levonick’s business-oriented, practical and actionable counsel has been relied upon by companies ranging from privately held technology startups to the largest global financial institutions. Levonick has worked with banks, lenders, servicers, federal and state regulators, trade organizations and nationally recognized statistical ratings organizations in creating policy, defining risk, and translating complex regulatory requirements into practical, technology driven business solutions, that have become the basis for many established origination, servicing, loan acquisition and securitization practices in the U.S. With a passion for solving complex consumer finance challenges, Levonick looks to continue to serve to the consumer finance and technology industries as part of Garris Horn. Levonick is a nationally recognized speaker on emerging technology, consumer finance and mortgage lending, regulatory compliance, securitization and the capital markets.

Managing Member, Shirk Law PLLC

David Shirk is the managing member of Shirk Law PLLC. He represents financial institutions, retail and wholesale mortgage bankers, lead generators, and software vendors. David advises innovating clients on state and federal regulatory compliance, licensing, originator compensation, and responding to exams or Bureau investigations. Prior to joining LotsteinLegal in 2011, which changed its name to Shirk Law in 2020, David spent 20 years in executive roles at mortgage companies. Including as functional architect of two loan origination systems at three top ten lenders. David is admitted to the bar in ten states. He holds a J.D. and an MBA.