Sari Heller Ratican
Counsel
Privacy & Cybersecurity
Sari
Heller Ratican
Sari
Heller Ratican
Counsel
Privacy & Cybersecurity
For the past 25 years, Sari has been a recognized leader in privacy and data protection, bringing her deep in-house and law firm experience to counseling clients of all sizes and geographic footprints, covering both national and international privacy laws and regulations, as well as cross-border data transfers.
Sari’s advisory practice spans the development and implementation of comprehensive privacy and data protection programs, and includes guidance on data governance, strategy, and information management. Her extensive experience in health privacy extends to biotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, telehealth, and digital health. Her vast experience offers clients bespoke privacy solutions to complex data challenges, such as processing historical data to train machine learning tools powering artificial intelligence.
Having been a global chief privacy officer and compliance professional myself, I understand the challenges clients face in implementing robust data privacy and governance programs tailored to their specific needs. Clients need pragmatic privacy strategies and programs to I come to manage risk while enabling innovation and growth.”
Sari Ratican
Sari is one of the country’s leading voices on health privacy. Among her other career achievements, Sari spent seventeen years at Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology company, where she was its first Global Chief Privacy Officer. Sari and her team designed and implemented a risk-based global privacy program in more than 75 countries.
Sari has also led the global privacy and data protection organizations for several other Fortune 500 companies including Baxter International Inc. and Edwards Lifesciences.
She has also advised myriad high-growth companies, both in a capacity as Head of Privacy and Data Governance for the world's first on-demand, AI-supported primary care telehealth clinic, and in her years practicing at an AmLaw 100 law firm.
Sari is frequently called upon to write and speak amongst the international privacy professional community. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), through which she has earned the status of a Certified Information Privacy Professional for the European Union (CIPP-E) and United States (CIPP-US). Sari is also a former board member of the International Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Privacy Consortium (IPMPC).