Cillian Kieran, CEO and Founder at Ethyca – CPO Magazine

CEO and Founder at Ethyca

Cillian Kieran is CEO and founder of privacy company Ethyca Cillian has extensive technical experience working with legacy enterprise organizations such Heineken, Sony, Dell and Pepsi building data platforms, visualization tools and leading strategic advisory in change management and data governance policy definitions liaising with CIO, CDO and legal counsel. Ethyca is aiming to power companies’ ethical data privacy management in the same way that Stripe has managed payments through an API, with a focus on fast-growing, data-driven commerce and enterprise companies. Cillian was taught BASIC by his mother as child on his C64 before self-teaching as a teenager HMTL and C+ which lead to Java before studying. Cillian continues to play a hands on role in product design, system architecture and engineering while having a unique ability to interpret non-technical business requirements into code.

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