The NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is delighted to announce that experienced privacy, cybersecurity, insurance, and compliance experts Douglas Bloom, Jonathan Martin, and My Chi To have joined PCCE’s Board of Advisors.
Douglas Bloom and My Chi To (photos courtesy of board members)
Douglas Bloom
Douglas Bloom is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Cybersecurity & Privacy for Morgan Stanley’s Legal & Compliance Division. In that role, he is responsible for the Firm’s legal response to cybersecurity, fraud, and operational resilience matters—including incident response, regulatory examinations and new legislation affecting the Firm. Bloom is also responsible for privacy matters affecting the Firm’s personnel and client base. Bloom has over 20 years’ experience investigating all aspect of financial and computer crimes—having served as a federal prosecutor, criminal defense lawyer and software developer.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Bloom was a Director in PwC’s Cybercrime and Breach Response practice, a leader of the Firm’s Cybersecurity Risk & Regulatory Practice, and a member of the Firm’s Financial Crimes Unit. At PwC, Bloom assisted clients across the globe, responding to regulatory changes, conducting cybercrime, fraud and economic espionage investigations, corporate internal investigations and handling breaches of PwC’s clients’ computer networks. In addition, as a leader of the Firm’s cybersecurity Board governance program, Bloom regularly advised clients and their Boards on proper governance of cybersecurity programs and assisted clients in the development of their cybersecurity Board reporting programs.
Prior to joining PwC, Bloom was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he investigated and prosecuted national security cyber offenses, including economic espionage, hacking of national defense and government systems, and the theft of trade secrets. In addition to his cyber work, Bloom investigated and prosecuted several high-profile public corruption and accounting fraud cases, and convicted the former majority leader of the New York State Senate and acting Lieutenant Governor of New York State of bribery and extortion. Bloom is a 2015 recipient of the Attorney General’s John Marshal Award, the highest attorney honor granted by the Department of Justice, and a 2013 recipient of the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation’s Prosecutor of the Year award.
Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Bloom was an associate in Covington & Burling’s white collar criminal defense and intellectual property practices where he investigated and litigated criminal and civil accounting fraud, tax fraud, and patent infringement cases.
Bloom brings deep technical expertise to his legal role, having served as a software engineer and program manager for Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. In those roles, Bloom designed and developed artificial intelligence algorithms for natural language processing software and drivers for network management systems.
Bloom is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University, where he teaches a course on computer crimes. He is also a published author—whose articles on cybercrime and insider threats regularly appear in the New York Law Journal—and frequent speaker on cybersecurity, fraud, and information management. He has presented to and taught courses for the Department of Justice, FINRA, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the National Association of Corporate Directors and various universities, businesses and industry participants.
He received a Bachelor’s degree in Symbolic Systems and a Master’s degree in Linguistics from Stanford University. He received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to the New York bar, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and is an active member of the Federal Bar Council where he serves on both the Criminal Practice and Westchester County Committees
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan D. Martin is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Meta, where he leads legal teams responsible for product, privacy, and competition counseling. Before joining Meta in 2020, he was Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Corporate Compliance Officer at S&P Global Inc., where he supported teams responsible for advising on corporate legal and compliance matters. He began his career as a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, representing clients on a range of securities, antitrust, bankruptcy, enforcement, and other complex litigation and regulatory matters. Martin clerked for the Honorable John G. Koeltl on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in History. He has a Ph.D. in American History from New York University, and he received his J.D. from NYU School of Law.
My Chi To
My Chi To is executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary of Voya Financial, Inc., a leading health, wealth and investment company that provides products, solutions and technologies for approximately 14.7 million individual customers, workplace participants and institutions in the United States.
To joined Voya in 2022 and oversees all aspects of Voya’s Law, Compliance and External Affairs department, serving as an advisor to senior management and the Voya Board of Directors on legal, compliance, securities and corporate-governance matters. She also serves on Voya’s Executive Committee.
To’s career combines senior government experience managing legal issues and emerging risks in a complex regulatory environment, with two decades advising public and private corporate clients as trusted outside counsel. Prior to joining Voya, she was executive deputy superintendent of insurance for the New York State Department of Financial Services, which regulates all health, life and property/casualty insurers doing business in New York, as well as insurance producers and certain retirement systems in the state. Previously, To was with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, including as a partner in the firm’s Restructuring Group and Global Insurance Practice.
To earned her civil and common law degrees from the University of Ottawa and a master’s degree in political sciences and government from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and clerked for the Supreme Court of Canada.
To has served on the boards of trustees for the American College of Investment Counsel and the Cathedral School of St. John the Divine in New York. She is also a past steering committee member of the U.S. 30% Club — an organization of chairpersons and CEOs taking action to increase gender diversity on boards and senior management teams.
About PCCE’s Board of Advisors
The PCCE Board of Advisors is comprised of experts with diverse backgrounds who advise PCCE’s leadership team on the most pressing and substantive policy issues in the area of compliance and enforcement. The Board of Advisors acts in an advisory capacity only and does not directly oversee the activities of PCCE. All members of the Board of Advisors serve in their individual capacity. A list of current board members is available here.