Finanity

Financial Management Mentor

Blubird

Head of Partnerships

CloneCast

Head of Operations

Yuga Labs

Private Investor

🎮 Utopian Game Labs 🎮

Investment Advisor

Alphabit

CEO of Metaversus post pandemic raise under the leadership of Alphabit. Interim CTO of Gamifi. Working alongside Investment Strategies for one of Europe's leading venture capitalist firms.

Investment Analyst and Business Development 

Blockchain Consultant

Techstars

Startup Mentor Web3

GamiFi.gg

Contracted sprint. From day 1 to help with the technical aspects and development of the platform up to market launch.

Interim Chief Technology Officer

AnRKey X

Contracted role to support the technical and operational aspects of the business. Great success and record breaking returns.

Interim General Manager

Leader in Growth & Operations | Career Break

Tim Rainer is a dynamic operations and strategy leader with over 15 years of experience in emerging technologies, SaaS, investments, and startups across Europe. Renowned for securing $20M+ in funding and scaling startups to multimillion-dollar valuations, he excels in driving strategic partnerships, optimizing processes, and delivering data-driven growth. With expertise in Web3, AI, and blockchain, Tim has worked directly with initiatives like tokenizing $54 billion in real-world assets at Blubird and mentoring EU startups to secure $3M+ in funding. His hands-on leadership and innovative approach consistently transform operations and accelerate business success.

Tim R.

Debra Farber JD, CISSP, FIP

Wicked6 Cyber Games Advisory Board

Principled LLC

ADVISORY SERVICES:
- Pre-Seed / Seed Stage Advisory Boards (for equity)
- Series A+ Stage Advisory Boards
- Executive-level advice on setting up Privacy-by-Design strategies, PETs for data sharing and analytics, selecting Privacy Tech vendors, hiring privacy experts, understanding privacy-related product & engineering requirements, how to approach privacy assurance, and where to find technical privacy resources

CONSULTING SERVICES:
- Marketing / Sales Support: guide on go-to-market messaging for privacy tech products or features so that it meets the needs of buyer personas (e.g, CPOs, CISOs, DPO, CTO, CIO, etc.)
- Product Privacy Risk Reviews
- Privacy Research
- Technical Writing for Privacy & Emerging Tech: whitepapers, blog posts, journals
- Delivery of Privacy Training: Privacy by Design, Privacy Engineering, Product Privacy, Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Partner with Data Scientists, Product Teams, and Engineering teams to embed privacy into business processes and systems

PROJECTS:
(Nov 2023 - Present) CA DMV Mobile Driver's License Pilot - Privacy Review
- Conducted the Privacy Review and Assessment of the California DMV's mDL Pilot (as a subcontractor for Privacy Rescue), with recommendations to meet the minimum privacy requirements across mDL / VC standards, the AAMVA mDL Implementation Guidelines, and privacy requirements on behalf of the CA DMV's Chief Digital Transformation Officer for inclusion in a CA DMV Legislative Report.
- Conducting research on Verified Credentials and Verified Data Registries

Principal Advisor & Consultant

Shifting Privacy Left Media

Shifting Privacy Left features lively discussions on the need for organizations to embed privacy by design into engineering, devops and the product development processes BEFORE code or products are ever shipped. Each Tuesday, we'll publish a new episode that features meaty interviews with privacy engineers, technologists, researchers, ethicists, innovators, market makers, and industry thought leaders. We'll dive deeply into this subject and unpack the exciting elements of emerging technologies and tech stacks that are driving privacy innovation, strategies and tactics that win trust, privacy pitfalls to avoid, privacy tech issues ripped from the headlines, and many other juicy topics of interest.

https://shiftingprivacyleft.buzzsprout.com

Host, The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

USENIX Association

I reviewed talk submission and promoted the conference to my network of privacy engineers. I also served as a Room Captain, introducing speakers at the conference. I also stepped in to moderate a panel on Privacy Design Patterns in ML/AI when a speaker was no longer able to attend. 

PEPR is focused on designing and building products and systems with privacy and respect for their users and the societies in which they operate. Our goal is to improve the state of the art and practice of building for privacy and respect and to foster a deeply knowledgeable community of both privacy practitioners and researchers who collaborate towards that goal.

View the Call for Participation. Submissions are due Wednesday, February 7, 2024. https://www.usenix.org/conference/pepr24/call-for-participation

Program Committee Member for the USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice & Respect

Secuvy

Strategic Advisor (Privacy Tech)

Privaini

Privacy Quest

Strategic Advisor

Panther Protocol

Panther DAO Council Member

privado.ai

Privado is a static code scanning tool to find, fix and remediate privacy issues in your products & applications. Our scan discovers what personal data (as defined by GDPR, other laws) your app is processing, third-party integrations, and data flows. With the scan results, Privado generates privacy reports for your apps as mandated by laws like GDPR or platforms like Apple and keep them in-sync with code changes.

PrivacyCheq

PrivacyCheq develops privacy enhancing technologies (PET) for mobile & web.

The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT)

The TROPT Privacy Tech Visionaries Circle (or “TROPT Visionaries”) is an exclusive gathering of the privacy profession’s and the privacy tech industry’s innovative and forward-thinking leaders.

Member, Visionaries Circle

TROPT Defining the Privacy Tech Landscape Whitepaper 2021:
- We start off by defining privacy tech, which requires understanding privacy. 
- We then categorize privacy tech, introducing the TROPT Privacy Tech Stack. 
- We also surveyed privacy tech key players to hear about their different pain points, the privacy problems they’re solving for, the solutions they’re building or buying, and the challenges they face at this nascent time in the privacy tech industry.
- Lastly, we share insights from the forefront of the privacy tech industry, with recommendations on how we can collectively keep fueling privacy tech and innovation. We outline proposed responses to what we learned from this endeavor. 

TROPT Privacy Tech Stack Whitepaper 2022:
- In this follow-up whitepaper, we continue to fuel privacy tech and innovation by building on top of the TROPT Privacy Tech Stack that we introduced last year. 
The TROPT Privacy Tech Stack is a living framework for categorizing privacy tech solutions. 
- As promised, we are updating the TROPT Privacy Tech Stack to categorize the privacy tech landscape as it matures. 
- We will continue to welcome feedback on the TROPT Privacy Tech Stack, as always.  
- Lastly, we share insights from the forefront of the privacy domain and the emerging privacy tech industry, with insights from TROPT Innovators, TROPT Visionaries, and the greater TROPT community of founders, investors, buyer-users, and domain experts.

Member, Privacy Tech Landscape Working Group

The Rise of Privacy Tech is an initiative to bring together privacy tech innovators, investors, experts, and evangelists. Together, we evangelize and fuel the rise of privacy innovation.

Member, TROPT Advisory Board

Debra J. Farber is a globally-recognized Privacy, Security and Ethical Tech Advisor at Principled LLC and Host of The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast. With 19 years of experience managing privacy and data protection issues, Debra has shifted left to work with companies seeking to unlock the value of their data with privacy by design (PbD) strategies, privacy enabling technologies (PETs), and privacy engineering methodologies.
 
Debra thrives when she pours her passionate energy into building ethical ecosystems and communities. She serves as Strategic Advisor to: The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT), The Institute of Privacy by Design (IOPD), Privado.ai, Secuvy AI, Privaini, & Privacy Quest; and is building a robust community for privacy engineers, architects, data scientists, researchers & technologists at Shifting Privacy Left. Previously, she held privacy and security leadership roles at Amazon Prime Video, AWS, BigID, Visa, TrustArc, and IBM.

To complement her privacy expertise, Debra is currently enrolled in several AI certificate programs:
- Privacy Engineering in AI Certificate (PEAC) Program (Designing Privacy)
- Computer Science for Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University)
- Designing and Building AI Solutions (eCornell)

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