About Us
Training by Practitioners, for Practitioners
We deliver IAPP-certified privacy training taught by professionals who live and breathe data protection every day.
DPO School was founded with a simple conviction: privacy certification training should be delivered by people who actually do the work. Our instructors are dual-admitted lawyers, privacy engineers, and governance experts who bring daily practice into every session.
As an IAPP Official Training Partner, we offer the full range of privacy certification courses — CIPP/E, CIPT, CIPP/US, and CIPM — in flexible formats designed for working professionals.
Based at The Hurt Hub at Davidson College in North Carolina, we serve privacy professionals worldwide through both in-person and virtual instruction.
IAPP Official Training Partner
DPO School is an officially recognized training partner of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the world's largest information privacy community.
Instructors
Meet Your Instructors
Sergio Maldonado
Dual-admitted lawyer (common law, civil law) with a programming background. LL.M in IT & Internet law, an Associate Professor at IE Business School on ePrivacy/GDPR. Member of the European Data Protection Board's Support Pool of Experts. Published author on digital analytics and Internet law. Founder: PrivacyCloud, Sweetspot Intelligence, Divisadero.
Passionate about data protection, marketing, technology, comparative law, and the Internet's impact on business and society. Familiarity with various jurisdictions, having trained or worked in San Francisco, London, Brussels, Madrid, and New York City.
Specialties
Steve Crowley
Steve Crowley became a senior technical trainer by happenstance through the wildfire disasters in California. After 20+ years as an IT professional, serving the markets of Biotech, Venture Capital, and numerous start ups, events led him to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) where he became involved in corporate and data security, contractor on-boarding, public facing representation, vegetation management, custom application design, instructional design, and bi-lingual (Spanish) training and community outreach.
"After 20 years of IT consulting, which required a lot of training and instructional design, I stumbled upon my true calling, which is training, leading, and instructing."
Steve Crowley speaks fluent Spanish and conversational French.
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