Frank Dawson

Currently the Director, Privacy Compliance. Frank’s roles at Nokia include Head of Privacy for the Nokia Software business, which provides an industry-leading software portfolio of sophisticated, yet intuitive software solutions that enable service providers to accelerate innovation, monetize new services and business models, and continuously improve their customer experience.

Frank has over 25 years of software design and development experience, with the last 18 years in the mobile industry. Since 2009, Frank has been focused on helping build the privacy program at Nokia and supporting the integration of privacy into Nokia product development lifecycle. Frank is an evangelist for Privacy by Design and an advocate for the emergence of Privacy Engineering as a software discipline.

Frank has a MSEE from University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri/US and holds a CIPP/IT certification from International Association of Privacy Professionals, a PMP certification from Project Management Institute and a CSM certification from SCRUM Alliance.