Since 2005, Ron has been delivering strategic privacy advice. He began his career consulting to healthcare and government agencies across Canada, then later helped establish the privacy practices of Deloitte and PwC in San Francisco and New York. After spending his early career in an advisory role, serving large clients in the tech, pharma, retail, telecom, entertainment, and education industries, Ron went in-house, creating, operationalizing, and managing his own global privacy programs at American Express, Coach, Tapestry, Tinder, and Match Group.

Most recently Ron served in the role of Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer at Grindr, the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.

In March 2024, Ron became the industry’s first ever Field Chief Privacy Officer and currently serves in this role for Transcend, a leading privacy compliance and AI governance platform.

Ron has volunteered extensively with the International Association for Privacy Professionals, formerly serving as co-lead of the IAPP’s inaugural Diversity in Privacy Advisory Board, co-author of the official Certified Information Privacy Manager textbook, co-chair or the CIPT Exam Development Board, co-chair of the IAPP KnowledgeNets in LA and New York. Ron is also former IAPP faculty and is a regular contributor to the IAPP Daily Dashboard and Privacy Advisor.

As co-chair of the LGBTQ Privacy & Tech Network, a global group of gay privacy professionals (and allies), Ron has led fundraising efforts through conference networking events known as “LGBTQ + Allies After Parties,” which have raised over $500K for gay youth organizations across the U.S. 

Outside of work, Ron enjoys pilates and yoga, being a dog dad, and baking birthday cakes.