Alex Proctor of Captain Compliance
Alex Proctor is a privacy and data protection professional with 15 years of experience spanning healthcare, critical infrastructure, and other highly regulated industries. With a strong foundation in cybersecurity, Alex brings a unique perspective to privacy and AI leadership. He led a cybersecurity consulting practice for half a decade and has led cybersecurity and privacy governance, risk, and compliance programs at a prominent EPC firm. He has also developed AI governance training resources used by cyber governance professionals globally. Alex serves as the Chief Trust & Privacy Officer at Captain Compliance—a privacy technology startup dedicated to simplifying complex privacy challenges and reducing privacy risk. The company’s streamlined platform addresses cookie consent management, dynamic privacy notices, data subject request processing, and more. Alex graduated from Oakland University with a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS). He holds numerous industry certifications, including the ISC2 CISSP and CCSP, as well as the IAPP CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT, and AIGP. Recognized by the IAPP as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Alex also chairs the IAPP Detroit KnowledgeNet chapter. He fosters dialogue and knowledge-sharing within the privacy community.

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AI Inventory: The First Step in AI Governance

Most companies do not have an AI governance problem because they built one powerful artificial intelligence system. They have an AI governance problem because artificial intelligence is already scattered across

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NIST AI Risk Management Framework

The NIST AI Risk Management Framework launched in January 2023 with language so carefully neutral it could have been written by committee — because it was. Two years later, something

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