Graham Thompson

Founder and CEO of Privacy Dynamics, Graham Thompson and has spent over 12 years within the tech industry. After earning his MBA at the University of San Francisco, Graham joined Microsoft where he helped enterprise and public sector customers navigate privacy regulations like GDPR as they moved workloads to Azure. Graham spearheaded several privacy research engagements with Microsoft Research and the academic community, which led to innovations such as SmartNoise, an open source toolkit that injects noise into data to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information and manage exposure risk. Inspired by growing concern over the collection and use of personal information, Graham founded Privacy Dynamics to make privacy a more reasonable task for data teams to put into their daily practice. Graham believes that startup life doesn’t have to be a miserable grind, and in fact can be the most fun job in the world.