Lori Fink

Lori Fink is a legal veteran across Federal, State, Private and Corporate practice. Lori is a privacy expert and strategic leader with 25+ years of experience at AT&T navigating legal risks and providing executive counsel. Her entrepreneurial spirit drives the creation of legal frameworks to enable the business to use data in a responsible and ethical manner. Her entrepreneurial spirit has also come to light as she launched her own Agri-Business in Northwest Missouri with the creation of Fink Family Farms, LLC.

Lori was AT&T's first Big Data Attorney when the organization launched in 2013, driving her to work in a world of data driven products and services ultimately leader to her role as Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T Inc. As AT&T launched its first tier advertising business in 2017, which later became known as Xandr, Lori led the creation of the legal team from 1 to over 40 while managing the full suite of lowball serves as well as Data Governance for Xandr including transactions, M&A, business development, marketing, communications, intellectual property and entity management. She also served as Corporate Secretary for Xandr Inc. which included 29 down-stream affiliates operating across the globe. At Xandr, she was committed to the company's mission of "Data Responsibly" and the creation of a multi-disciplinary data stewardship framework with other members of the executive leadership team focused on enabling the business with data protection, transparency and consent. Lori also worked with a multi-disciplinary global operations team across AT&T and Xandr in its GDPR implementation of Cross-Border Data Transfer compliance.

Lori has held numerous lead positions across her career as head attorney for Compliance, Trade and Privacy and the Federal External Affairs Legal Department in AT&T's DC office, Small and Medium Business Sales, and as Acting General Counsel at the Kansas Corporation Commission.