PCCE is pleased to announce that Joseph (“Joe”) Facciponti will be joining PCCE as our new Executive Director on September 12, 2022. The Executive Director is instrumental to PCCE’s success. The ED works with PCCE Director and NYU Law Professor Jennifer Arlen to conceive and direct PCCE events; edits our blog, Compliance & Enforcement; and directs our Student and Senior Fellow programs. The ED also plays an important role in actively maintaining PCCE’s voice on relevant corporate compliance and enforcement issues, as well as our relationships with our Advisory Board, other NYU School of Law cohorts, and most important, those who share PCCE’s goals and comprise our active community, including those in enforcement, academic, public policy-making and corporate legal & compliance roles, and of course, the law firm and alumni communities.
Joe brings a wealth of practical and topical experience to the ED role, having worked in private practice, as in-house counsel at a major financial institution, and as a federal prosecutor at the Southern District of New York.
Prior to joining PCCE, Joe spent six years counseling corporate clients on financial crime, cybersecurity, and data privacy issues, most recently at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. He has also served in-house as deputy head of HSBC’s global internal investigations group. After clerkships in both the US District Courts for Southern District of New York and the Southern District of Texas, Joe began a nine-year career in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, where he was part of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime unit, and was awarded the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Cyber Investigation in 2010.
As a cybersecurity and privacy expert, Joe has lectured at NYU School of Law, and is an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School/Cornell Tech, where he teaches Cyber Law. He has also spoken at past PCCE events. Joe maintains close ties with the legal community, and is currently the Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Privacy, Data Security and Information Technology Litigation, and the former Chair of the NYC Bar Association’s Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Subcommittee of the Information Technology & Cyber Law Committee.
Joe holds a JD from Cornell University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal, and holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University.
Joe will be assisted by our new Assistant Executive Director, Dr. Carolyn Pautz, whom PCCE welcomed in May 2022. Carolyn comes to PCCE from the Arts Business Collective, where she was most recently the Director of Research and Strategy for Rising Tides Institute. Carolyn holds a MA from NYU, and received her PhD in Philosophy from Temple University in 2019.
Please join us in welcoming Joe and Carolyn. We would also like to thank outgoing ED Julie Copeland for her efforts and contributions during her tenure, which ended mid-August. To assist PCCE as we make the transition between EDs, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor Kathryn Reimann will be filling in as Acting PCCE Executive Director in August and September, and helping with Joe’s orientation.