Schedule & Agenda

Throughout the lifecycles of data-driven initiatives and offerings, James helps clients to identify, assess, and mitigate privacy and cybersecurity risks.  As a trusted advisor to clients in the automotive, consumer, technology, and financial sectors he assesses and helps shape emerging regulatory frameworks; he supports the development of practical compliance approaches that align with organizational objectives and cultures; he helps clients navigate the challenges raised by privacy and cybersecurity incidents; and he supports interactions with regulators and policymakers. 

Stacey Keegan is Associate General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at The Home Depot, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of senior legal, privacy, and data governance professionals and oversees a broad legal portfolio spanning privacy and data governance,  technology transactions, e-commerce, and payments/credit. She chairs the company's Privacy and Data Governance Committee and plays a leadership role in Responsible AI, cybersecurity, technology risk, and incident-response governance. Stacey holds the CIPP/US, CIPP/C, and CIPM certifications, serves on RILA's Privacy Leaders Council, and earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law.

Maïmouna Goudiaby is a French commercial and regulatory lawyer advising clients on complex legal and compliance matters, with a particular focus on retail, e-commerce, and consumer-facing businesses. She has significant experience supporting companies across the full product lifecycle, from development to market launch, including structuring distribution models, supply chains, and logistics frameworks. Maïmouna regularly assists clients in navigating regulatory requirements affecting product compliance, consumer law, advertising, and supply chain traceability across multiple jurisdictions. Drawing on her in-house experience with a leading U.S. multinational organization, she has developed strong expertise in managing cross-border legal and operational challenges and in designing pragmatic, business-oriented compliance solutions. Her international experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa enables her to advise global retailers on how to address regulatory fragmentation and align legal, compliance, and business teams in complex, fast-evolving environments. She is also an editor for Panoramic - Luxury and Fashion.

When governments impose barriers to trade that restrict global supply chains, John Brew provides businesses timely, practical, and creative solutions through legal, political, and economic strategies to eliminate obstacles, reduce costs, and minimize the harm caused. As the former chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group and a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, John has extensive experience in import and export trade regulation, collaborating with corporations, trade associations, foreign governments, and nongovernmental organizations on customs administration, enforcement, compliance litigation, legislation, and policy matters. He represents clients in proceedings at the administrative and judicial levels as well as before Congress and the international bureaucracies that handle customs and trade matters. John advises clients on all substantive import regulatory issues handled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, such as classification, valuation, origin, marking, tariff preference programs, other agency regulations, admissibility, customs brokerage, Section 321, drawback, foreign trade zones, duty recovery programs, import restrictions, quotas, audits, prior disclosures, penalties, investigations, Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and trade compliance programs, importations under bond, the Jones Act, and vessel repairs. John has been at the forefront in assisting clients challenge the onslaught of additional tariffs (e.g., IEEPA) and recovering tariffs paid through successful litigation. He has assisted clients in a broad array of industries (automotive, aerospace, chemical, e-commerce, energy, pharmaceutical, petroleum, textile, apparel and footwear, food and beverage, agricultural, machinery, equipment, electronics, and household goods), providing creative solutions that enable clients to obtain significant duty savings and mitigate draconian customs penalties. John’s practice also includes representation of clients in other international trade areas, such as human rights (forced labor, withhold release orders, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, modern slavery, and supply chain due diligence); export controls; sanctions; market access; World Trade Organization–related matters; bilateral, multilateral, and regional trade agreements; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; anti-boycott, anti-dumping, and countervailing duty actions; short supply proceedings; Sections 122, 201, 232, 301, and 337; and other import relief actions. John has been recognized by Chambers USA in the area of International Trade: Customs; Chambers Global in the area of International Trade, U.S.; The Best Lawyers in America in the area of International Trade and Finance Law; Lexology Index in the area of Trade & Customs; and Super Lawyers in the area of International, and he won the 2020 Client Choice Award for International Trade in the United States.

Michelle has almost 20 years of experience in the legal field dealing with constitutional, political, employment, regulatory, and commercial law. She has worked for federal agencies, law firms, and the federal judiciary. In her roles she has litigated, written regulations, and provided counsel to various corporations, nonprofit organizations, and state and federal entities on issues involving contracts, compliance, legislation, risk, and policy. Michelle Vaughan currently serves as Deputy General Counsel at REI, where she is reinventing the Co-op's enterprise compliance program, collaborating closely with REI’s internal and external brand partners, and defending REI in the many types of litigation that retailers face in our current environment. In addition to working with cross-divisional partners on various Co-op wide compliance initiatives, she also partners with Trade Compliance, Sustainability, and Supply Chain on various trade and forced labor issues."

Matt is the chair of Cooley’s North American product safety practice and a leading global consumer product safety and compliance lawyer who counsels manufacturers, retailers, distributors, trade associations and consumer product companies on issues within all aspects of a product’s life cycle. From preventative counseling incorporated before a product launch, to manufacturing and defect management, and recall strategies and governmental compliance adherence, Matt’s experience spans the most challenging product related issues faced by companies around the world. Specifically, Matt helps clients find solutions in response to concerns surrounding product safety reporting, recalls, defect investigations, civil penalties, inspections, import seizures, internal compliance programs, compliance safety, as well as civil and criminal litigation resulting from product compliance and safety related incidents. Matt advises clients in highly regulated industries such as apparel, children’s toys, fitness equipment, office supplies, household furniture, products requiring child resistant packaging, arts & crafts materials, books, recreational and sporting equipment, appliances, lighters, heating and cooling equipment, home decorations, promotional products, household cleaners and many other types of consumer products. Matt previously served as the chair of the consumer safety product practice at Mintz and as the chief of staff at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Matt is also actively involved in the national and international product safety community. He has served on the board of directors of the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization since 2016 and was recently elected president of the organization.

Asha’s practice focuses on enforcement and litigation issues involving consumer product safety law, regulatory compliance and risk management, administrative law, and unfair competition claims. Building on 15+ years of experience in trial advocacy centered on product engineering and intellectual property issues, she helps companies transform technical data and market insights into nuanced legal strategies, navigating complex, high-stakes or multijurisdictional disputes with holistic, business-oriented solutions.

Eric Stahl serves as the Associate General Counsel for Safety and Litigation at IKEA U.S. Eric manages all product and consumer litigation in the U.S and oversees compliance with federal and state product requirements, including CPSC, FDA, USDA, and FTC regulations.  Charged with safeguarding IKEA’s commitment to consumer trust and safety, Eric works directly with designers, regulators, advocates, and industry leaders.  With a network of partnerships across the global IKEA supply chain, Eric provides strategic counsel to navigate the complex U.S. legal landscape while fulfilling IKEA’s mission to provide inspired products to “the many people.”  Eric is, in fact, the type of person who enjoys assembling IKEA furniture in his free time and he always has his trusty Allen wrench close at hand. Prior to joining IKEA, Eric was an associate at an international law firm, representing clients from the consumer products, pharmaceutical, medical device, food, and transportation industries.