Tammy Bortz
Professional Summary
- Experienced Commercial technology attorney with extensive experience in wide range of technology related transactions.
- Advise Global Corporations (South Africa, Africa, UK, Europe) on the legal aspects of privacy and data protection including the Protection of Personal Information Act, GDPR and Africa privacy legislation.
- Works with multidisciplinary advisory teams on global privacy implementation projects across diverse industries and territories.
- Speaker at conferences and inhouse staff training
Work History: 04/2017 to 06/2020
Legal Consultant: Privacy and Technology Law
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Proprietary Limited
- Advise Global businesses primarily in Financial Services, Healthcare, Education and Philanthropy on compliance with data privacy laws (POPIA, GDPR and Africa) including cross border data transfer issues.
- Works with multidisciplinary teams on local and global privacy implementation projects across diverse industries and territories including privacy compliance audits, gap assessments, preparation of data privacy strategy and governance frameworks, development and implementation of privacy and security policies, review and drafting of standard agreements, forms, privacy notices/consents and staff training.
04/ 2014 to date
Lawyer
Tammy Bortz & Associates
- Advise global business on a broad range of technology related transactions across diverse industries, including complex outsourcing and service levels, managed services, and cloud solutions.
- Advise on diverse data privacy issues including application of POPIA, GDPR, review and drafting of data processor/operator agreements, privacy policies, privacy notices, consents, information technology usage and document retention policies, auditing cloud provider terms and conditions, privacy and security policies.
- Liaise with Information Regulator on behalf of clients
- Regularly presents at conferences and workshops on data privacy issues –
- lectured at Microsoft event for its Enterprise Clients on data privacy and POPIA
- lectured at the Gartner Cloud Computing Event on data privacy and cloud computing
- Guest lecturer Master of Laws (LLM) (IP Law): Protection of Personal Information Act 2013: data privacy and security
04/2011 to 03/2014
Director and head of Technology Law Practice Group
Werksmans Attorneys
- Advised on a broad range of technology transactions across all industries, including complex outsourcing and service level agreements, system development and implementation agreements; license, support and maintenance agreements, managed services agreements, cloud service agreements, technology related policies and procedures cloud service agreements, technology related policies and procedures such as AUP, privacy, information technology usage and document retention policies
- Advised on wide range of data privacy issues
04/2004 to 03/2011
Tammy Bortz Inc
- Commercial and technology lawyer advising on a broad range of commercial and technology transactions, including outsourcing and service level agreements, system development and implementation agreements; license, support and maintenance agreements, managed services agreements.
- Regulatory Compliance in respect of consumer legislation.
01/1995 to 03/ 2004
Werksmans Attorneys
- Commenced articles in 199 and appointed Partner in 2000.
- Worked in general commercial and technology law departments
Position
Consultant, LHC Advisory
Nationality
South African
Education and Qualifications
- University of the Witwatersrand: BA LLB
- CIPP/E (Certified International Privacy Professional/EU)