Stan Crosley is the founder and managing partner of Crosley Law Offices and, along with Fred Cate, in 2022 created and launched Red Barn Strategy. The two organizations work with some of the largest and most successful multinational corporations in the world on data strategy and data governance, as well as small start-ups and non-profits, across the business ecosystem.

Stan has more than 25 years of privacy and data strategy experience and is the former Chief Privacy Officer at Eli Lilly and Company, where he initiated and implemented the privacy program in 2000 as one of the first CPOs in the United States. Stan is an Adjunct Professor of Maurer School of Law and a Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum. Stan was recently named a Westin Emeritus Fellow by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), one of only 50 globally among a professional association of 85,000 members.

Stan was a co-founder of the International Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Privacy Consortium, which he chaired for its first decade, and is a former member of the board of IAPP, and co-chair of the HHS/ONC Privacy and Security Workgroup. Stan’s experience extends from in-house chief privacy officer to an attorney with three separate large law firms, to appointments in academia, research NGOs, non-profit advisory boards, and federal government committees and is a frequent speaker on data strategy, digital governance, and data protection at conferences around the world.