Jody Westby
CEO
Jody Westby brings a unique combination of more than thirty years of technical, legal, policy, and business experience to ADCG. As a consultant, Ms. Westby advises organizations in the areas of cyber and AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity risk management, and digital asset management. She has deep expertise in cybersecurity best practices and standards, including those applicable to industrial control and SCADA systems used in manufacturing, utility grids, and critical infrastructure sectors.
Ms. Westby also is a professional blogger for Forbes and writes periodically for Leader’s Edge magazine on cybersecurity issues. Ms. Westby is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. She serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Privacy and Computer Crime Committee (Science & Technology Law Section) and co-chair of the Cybercrime Committee (Criminal Justice Section) and has served four terms on the ABA President’s Cybersecurity Task Force. She co-chaired the World Federation of Scientists’ (WFS) Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security and served on the ITU Secretary-General’s High Level Experts Group on Cybersecurity. She served as vice chair of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) U.S. Technology and Policy Committee and chair of ACM’s TechBriefs Committee.
Ms. Westby is the author of seven books, all published by the American Bar Association on cybersecurity, privacy, cybercrime, and cyber governance. Her latest publication, D&O Guide to Cyber Governance: Fiduciary Duties in the Digital Age, builds on her 15 years of experience in the governance of cyber risks and widely recognized series of governance surveys and reports. Ms. Westby led the development of the International Toolkit on Cybercrime Legislation and was editor and co-author of the 2010 UN publication, The Quest for Cyber Peace.
Previously, she launched In-Q-Tel for the CIA, was senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, was senior fellow and director of IT Studies for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, and was director of domestic policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Westby practiced law at Shearman & Sterling and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, University of Tulsa and J.D., magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center and was named to the Order of the Coif. Ms. Westby was elected a member of the American Bar Foundation and the Cosmos Club.