Shenoa Herlinger

Prior to joining Venable, Shenoa led U.S. and international data privacy protection and compliance consulting for BDO USA’s Fortune 500, nonprofit, higher education, financial, retail, and life sciences clients. There she conducted privacy program gap analyses to ensure clients’ compliance with overlapping state, national, and international privacy laws. She also did extensive research, tracked key performance indicators (KPIs), worked closely with legal staff, used various privacy management platforms, and led a variety of privacy initiatives.

Shenoa has worked in privacy and data protection for the U.S. government, first at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), then at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At USAID, she served as the team lead for the agency’s Global Privacy Program, assisting with the transition to next-generation security and privacy controls for a global enterprise with more than 15,000 people working across hundreds of systems in more than 80 countries. At NIH, she monitored and handled administration for information security systems, processes, and procedures, employing problem-solving skills to strike the right balance between security requirements and user needs.

Shenoa began her career in the U.S. Army after 9/11 working in psychological operations and deploying as part of Iraqi Freedom. After her honorable discharge she worked for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Human Terrain System (HTS), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where she deployed twice to Afghanistan to support field testing projects before entering the field of compliance and data privacy at USAID. Along the way, she developed a deep understanding of ever-evolving information and privacy data threats, and the steps organizations must take to protect against them.