Summary
Cassius Sims is a senior privacy and cybersecurity legal executive with a decade of experience building and leading privacy, data governance, and information security programs for large media, telecom, and adtech organizations. Now VP and Senior Deputy General Counsel at Comcast, he has a track record of standing up programs from scratch, hardening existing controls, and advising on complex cross-border and technology-driven risks. Trained as a computer engineer at Johns Hopkins and a JD from Duke, Cassius blends technical fluency with courtroom-caliber legal acumen, a rare combo that informs pragmatic, technically grounded compliance solutions. He also helped found an invitation-only nonprofit for in-house cybersecurity leaders, reflecting a commitment to peer-based governance and sector-level improvement. Early hands-on software and GIS development work gives him an uncommon appreciation for engineers’ constraints when translating legal requirements into operational controls.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
JD, JD at Duke University School of Law
Desert Vista