Whitney Merrill
Head Of Global Privacy & Data Protection Officer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWhitney Merrill is a privacy and data protection leader with over a decade of experience building and operating global privacy, data governance, and compliance programs in high-growth tech companies. Currently Head of Global Privacy, Data Protection & Compliance at Asana, she leads a distributed team of attorneys and program managers and routinely presents to the Audit Committee of the Board, aligning privacy strategy with business objectives. Her background blends in-house counsel roles at Brex and Electronic Arts with federal enforcement experience at the FTC, giving her a rare perspective on both regulatory risk and practical product-focused privacy engineering. Whitney holds a J.D. (cum laude) and an M.C.S., enabling strong technical fluency in AI/ML and privacy-by-design practices. She’s known for turning complex legal requirements into actionable roadmaps and for embedding privacy into product development rather than treating it as an afterthought. Based in San Francisco, she combines litigation-grade legal training with hands-on technical and program management experience to scale privacy programs across global operations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor (J.D.) cum laude Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.) cum laude Law at University of Illinois College of LawMaster of Computer Science (M.C.S.), Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.) at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Public Policy and Law with Honors, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Public Policy and Law with Honors at Trinity College-Hartford
Github Skills (4)
crypto4
privacy3
privacy-policy1
security1
Github contributions (5)
IoTGuidance/docs
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
brexhq/privacy
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Brex Privacy Policy
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
policysecurityprivacy-policyprivacy
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