Ayokunle Fayanju

• Manage Data Security and Protection Toolkit compliance and annual submissions for the Trust • Develop comprehensive IG policies and procedures ensuring regulatory compliance across the Trust • Provide expert guidance on data protection legislation to senior leadership including SIRO and Caldicott Guardian • Lead IG risk management, incident investigation, and serious incident reporting to national bodies and ICO • Manage the Information Access Rights process for the Trust, ensuring compliance with subject access requests • Deliver mandatory training programs and stakeholder engagement across all organizational levels • Represent Trust at regional/national IG forums and manage relationships with CCG, auditors, and NHS Digital • Conduct regular compliance audits and implement continuous improvement programs

o Provided subject matter expert advice on the Data Privacy and Protection of service users held on electronic systems. o Served as the initial point of contact for concerns regarding privacy and provides specialist advice and guidance on the correct management and disposal of patient and staff systems in accordance with the UK GDPR, PECR, Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection Act. o Continuously reviewed policies and procedures to reflect changes in governance structures, laws, and changes recommended by regulatory bodies. o Investigated data breaches and make recommendations from lessons learned from such to facilitate improvements to privacy and confidentiality performance across the organisation to improve risk management. o Interpreted and implemented relevant legislation and guidelines on privacy to ensure the Trust complies with its obligations under the law.

o Assisted clients in developing and documenting privacy operations, including policies, processes, and data audits, as well as identifying opportunities to enhance procedures. o Negotiated commercial agreements with customers and key vendors, including locating in-scope contracts and data protection agreements in line with legal and privacy requirements, especially ensuring privacy by design is embedded in new products. o Offered data protection and privacy advice to clients on data partnerships and vendor relationships while monitoring the effect of emerging legislative, regulatory, and industry recommendations for different businesses by ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018, UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, California Consumer Privacy Act, Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA),The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and other relevant laws. o Prepared and advised clients on international data transfer agreements on countries’ specific transfer of data. o Collaborated with clients’ in-house legal teams to undertake privacy impact assessments and adopt data governance materials such as inventory templates and vendor due diligence questionnaires.

Served as a contract attorney in high-profile U.S. federal litigation involving Walmart, with a focus on privacy, privilege, and regulatory compliance in document review and production. • Conducted complex document review for attorney–client privilege, work product protection, and privacy compliance under HIPAA, GLBA, and state consumer privacy statutes. • Applied advanced legal judgment to redact sensitive information, safeguarding proprietary business data and protected health information (PHI). • Identified and flagged documents with potential personal data protection risks, ensuring compliance with litigation confidentiality orders and relevant U.S. laws. • Collaborated with litigation counsel to preserve legal privilege and minimise discovery risks, contributing to strategic case positioning. • Embedded privacy-by-design considerations into production sets, privilege logs, and redaction protocols to reduce regulatory and reputational risk.

o Represented the Federal Government of Nigeria in a variety of legal and administrative proceedings by providing legal advice and undertaking formal legal representations. o Interpreted federal, state and local laws; managed case preparation and prosecution of Federal law violators. o Undertook over a dozen asset forfeiture and confiscation hearings before the Nigerian High Courts leading to seizure of over USD10,000,000.00 in currency and assets. o Argued and won the first legal precedent for cybercrime at the Nigerian Court of Appeal, Lagos in a complex criminal case that involved business compromise emails sent to major financial institutions around the world. o Reviewed contracts entered into by the Federal Government to ensure compliance with due process laws. o Participated in the drafting of the EFCC standard operating procedure for Investigators and Prosecutors set up by the EFCC and the Department of Justice Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT). o Managed assigned Legal Department functions, including professional civil legal work, legal counsel and education, technical and legal documents, representation before courts, boards and administrative hearings. Achievements. o Investigated and prosecuted with the Office of the Inspector General of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) a group of hackers; leading to the conviction and sentencing of the defendant to 21years imprisonment. o Collaborated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in investigating and securing the conviction of a defendant in a complex trans-border advance fee fraud scheme involving USD300,000.00 perpetrated in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Nigeria. o Secured the asset forfeiture of “one of the most prolific cybercrimes suspects out of Africa” as reported by INTERPOL, suspected of defrauding businesses around the world leading to the loss of over USD60,000,000.00.

o Represented the Federal Government in the arraignment of suspects before the High Courts. o Prepared documents and assisted the Head of Legal Department, Lagos with litigation, negotiations, settlements, prosecutions and other legal proceedings.

o Supervised 40-50 youth service corps Attorneys in the provision of free legal services to indigent Nigerians in the Federal Capital Territory. o Organized and sponsored public lectures for law enforcement agencies and other major stakeholders in the criminal justice system on the best practices in fundamental human rights and the treatment of offenders. o Represented pro-bono, “awaiting trial” inmates who had spent more than a year in prison without legal representation for misdemeanor and minor non-violent felonies. o Organized charity events to raise money to pay fines of minor offenders who had remained in custody beyond their set dates of release for failure to pay the fines levied against them by the Courts. o Collaborated with other Community Development Services of the NYSC to provide food and clothing to ex-convicts living in halfway houses in the Abuja metropolis. o Successfully represented an indigent prison inmate who had been without a counsel for five years and got him released from prison custody. o Wrote and edited a legal manual for Youth Corps attorneys to follow in the representation of indigents in complex cases that involved uncooperative law enforcement officers.

o Responded to motions and prepared counter-affidavits. o Researched legal authorities for cases to be filed in Court.