About Aoife Sexton
Aoife is Co-Founder and Director at Frontier Privacy, an innovative consultancy firm offering a full range of data protection services. It assists companies to become compliant with existing data protection laws as well as the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation
Aoife is also Principal at the law firm, Tech Law Services where she advises technology clients within the areas of Commercial, IP and Technology Law.
Previously, Aoife headed up the IP/IT department of a large Dublin commercial law firm. Previous to that Aoife was General Counsel with an Irish technology company, Altobridge.
Aoife also spent 12 years with the GSM Association, the global industry body for mobile operators, where she held a number of senior positions including that of General Counsel, CEO (Interim), and Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs. Previous private practice experience includes the French law firm Siméon & Associés (Brussels) as well as a Eugene F Collins.
Aoife is a graduate of University College Dublin (BCL) and the College of Europe (Bruges). She is a Certified Data Protection Practitioner (PDP) as well as certified CIPP/E, a member of Society of Computers and Law UK, and a member of the Irish Computer Society.
She is a regular lecturer at the Law Society of Ireland on data protection and technology law and a regular conference speaker.