As Chief Privacy Officer for the County of Santa Clara, Mr. Pahl brings more than two decades of experience in privacy and cybersecurity. Mr. Pahl is a seasoned privacy and compliance program executive who has led large teams focused on global data protection programs and has worked within the financial services and electric utilities industries.

His professional career demonstrates a history of effective oversight and adoption of new privacy standards to complex operations. He has deep expertise in a wide range of functions related to risk management, ranging from handling of day-to-day incident responses to investigations of significant, complex privacy issues, and generative AI implementation. He has also developed policies, training, communications, monitoring, and governance of compliance reporting.

Mr. Pahl holds a doctorate in Strategic Leadership. He is a Fellow of Information Privacy with the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a certified Information Privacy Professional.