Adam Kardash

Managing Director and Head, Access/Privacy, Heenan Blaikie

Adam Kardash is chair of Heenan Blaikie’s National Privacy and Information Management group, and Managing Director and Head of Access Privacy, a Heenan Blaikie consulting and information services company focusing on privacy and information management solutions. Adam has extensive experience in the privacy law area, and regularly advises on a broad range of data protection issues and privacy compliance initiatives. He assists in-house counsel and Chief Privacy Officers of organizations in the private, health and not-for-profit sectors on conducting privacy impact assessments and privacy and security reviews/audits; drafting privacy policies, practises and procedures; undertaking privacy compliance initiatives; managing security breaches; representing organizations on privacy regulatory investigations, and the drafting and negotiation of service provider arrangements involving personal information, including transborder data flows. Adam speaks and publishes regularly on privacy and information management matters, and together with the AccessPrivacy team recently launched the Private Sector Source (at www.accessprivacy.com), a web-based information resource on private sector privacy for privacy compliance professionals.