Ryan brings a robust background in privacy and cybersecurity to his role at Michael Best, focusing his practice in the areas of information technology, outsourcing, data protection, licensing, e-commerce, and intellectual property. He serves clients across industry sectors, including financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.
Ryan’s experience with privacy and cybersecurity issues includes compliance with multinational regulatory requirements (specifically cross-border data transfers), evaluation and negotiation of agreements for cloud-based solutions, creation of website privacy policies and terms of use, investigation and management of potential data security incidents, and compliance with PCI-DSS and applicable breach notification laws.
Ryan provides expert counsel to numerous well-known, global consumer and business-to-business brands, including strategic and programmatic approaches to regulatory compliance and pre- and post-breach cybersecurity governance and planning. He has deep experience preparing a variety of agreements for technology-driven transactions, with a focus on complex, high-value, and mission critical transactions for outsourced business processes, software development, licensing, hosting, software-as-a-service, cloud offerings, and complex technical implementations.
Ryan has unique experience advising clients in the hospitality and travel industries, focusing on technologies and services involved with on-property and above-property hotel operations, including:
- loyalty programs
- reservations processing
- electronic distribution
- revenue management
- co-branded arrangements
- property management systems
- point of sale systems
- in-room entertainment technologies
In addition, Ryan collaborates with information technology procurement professionals in the hospitality industry on creating standard documents and processes intended to streamline negotiation and purchase processes.