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Marc M. Groman
President & CEO

As President & CEO of NAI, Marc Groman leads the organization’s growth and ongoing efforts to develop and maintain high standards for Interest-Based Advertising. Widely recognized as a thought leader on privacy, e-commerce, and marketing law, Marc brings a unique perspective to his role, having engaged with privacy issues for over a decade and from nearly every angle – government litigator, senior policy advisor, compliance officer, and legislative staff.

He is passionate about self-regulation and believes that the industry must proactively address privacy challenges presented by new technology and business models. His vast government experience includes two years on Capitol Hill and over a decade with the Federal Trade Commission.

Prior to joining the NAI, Marc served as the FTC's first chief privacy officer, where he built an award-winning privacy program from the ground up. In 2009 and 2010, he served as counsel on the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. While on the Committee, Marc drafted a significant consumer privacy bill and shepherded data security and breach notification bills through passage in the House.

Marc's decade-long FTC career also included positions as counsel to the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and staff attorney in the Division of Marketing Practices. As counsel, Marc advised the bureau director on a wide range of consumer privacy issues, including online advertising, children’s privacy, data security, email marketing, spyware, identity theft, and international privacy. In Marketing Practices, he litigated a number of high-profile FTC enforcement actions and received multiple awards for his efforts to help develop the FTC's Internet fraud program.

Marc started his legal career in the private sector as a litigation associate with Peabody and Arnold LLP in Boston, Massachusetts.

Marc received a B.A. magna cum laude in international relations from Tufts University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Marc also serves on the Board of Directors of the Digital Advertising Alliance.

Noga Rosenthal
General Counsel and VP, Compliance & Policy

As General Counsel and Vice President for Compliance and Policy for the NAI, Noga Rosenthal leads the NAI's compliance program. With an extensive background in online advertising, legal issues and emerging technologies, Noga helps to ensure members’ compliance with the NAI Code and policy requirements while also advising members on policy issues and best practices recommendations.  

Through tough enforcement, ongoing investigations, and annual member compliance reviews, Noga helps to ensure that NAI member companies deliver on the promise of self-regulation for online behavioral advertising.

Prior to joining the NAI, Noga Rosenthal was senior vice president and general counsel of 24/7 Media, Inc. and Media Innovation Group, LLC, WPP plc companies.

As general counsel of these companies, Noga worked to ensure that users' privacy was taken into consideration when developing and creating new products. She also provided online advertising privacy training to colleagues and clients and advised her colleagues on international data protection laws.

Noga represented her companies as a member of each of the Advisory Board of the Digital Advertising Initiative, the Legal Affairs Council and Public Policy Council of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the International Association of Privacy Professionals Education Advisory Board and the NAI board of directors.

Prior to joining 24/7 Media, Noga served as assistant vice president at Sotheby's, Inc. and as a corporate associate at DLA Piper. Noga holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from the Rutgers College and a J.D. from Fordham Law School. She is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars.

James Campbell
Director of Member Development and Operations

As Director of Member Development and Operations of the NAI, Jim Campbell is primarily responsible for building the membership and maintaining positive vendor relations for the organization. Since joining the NAI in 2005, Jim has helped NAI grow from five to nearly 100 third-party online advertising companies. In addition to his operational, sales, marketing, and member service responsibilities, Jim has contributed to the development of the NAI Code and other industry best practices.

Jim is a veteran marketing professional with a unique breadth of experience in compliance in both the email and online marketing realms. As the leader of the NAI’s new member onboarding and pre-certification process, Jim is on the front lines of the initiative to update the NAI Code to reflect cutting edge technology and business models.

Jim joined the NAI after serving as the email marketing manager for Expedia's TripAdvisor.com travel search site and, prior to that, serving as vice president of marketing for email service provider TargitInteractive. In both of these roles, Jim spearheaded his company’s efforts to remain compliant with federal and state laws regarding email marketing as well as industry self-regulation and best practices.

Jim has also served as the Director of Sales & Operations for the Email Sender and Provider Coalition, where he grew the membership from 35 to 85 in two years. He began his career buying and managing media sponsorships for Anheuser-Busch and Busch Media Group. He later entered the emerging online marketing field with TMP Worldwide, then-parent of Monster.com.

Jim received his B.A. in English from The College of the Holy Cross and an M.A. in Advertising from the University of Illinois. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional.

Jack Hobaugh
Counsel & Senior Director of Technology

As Counsel and Senior Director of Technology for the NAI, Jack Hobaugh is focused on complex policy issues that are deeply intertwined with technical implementations. With an extensive background in intellectual property litigation as well as software development and database design, Jack is uniquely equipped to lead some of the most technical aspects of NAI's work, including strategizing around emerging policy issues.

In his role, Jack helps to ensure companies’ compliance with the NAI Code, and provides guidance to members on privacy best practices.

Prior to joining the NAI, Jack was an associate in the Cooley Litigation department and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group. His previous roles included associate at Blank Rome and law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Tena Campbell of the United States District Court, District of Utah, where he specialized in patent litigation support.

Prior to and during law school, Jack was a senior engineer for Level 3 Communications, Inc. Before returning to the United States to join Level 3, he was an associate for Booz-Allen's Overseas Division, providing on-site information technology consulting for clients in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.

Jack earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, a Master of Laws degree from George Washington University Law School, a BA from the University of Maryland, University College, an MS from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS from Lebanon Valley College. 

Jack is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/IT and CIPP/US).

Anthony Prestia
Associate Counsel for Policy & Technology

As Associate Counsel for Policy & Technology, Anthony Prestia assists in the annual compliance review of member companies.  To improve this process, Anthony developed the organization's compliance monitoring tool, which crawls the Web to help ensure members' opt outs are functioning properly and that members are complying with the NAI Code.

Bringing a wealth of programming, business, and information privacy experience to his role with the NAI, Anthony is spearheading efforts to develop a mobile code of conduct and best practices for non-cookie technologies as part of the organization’s overall initiative to address changes in technologies, business models, regulatory requirements, and policy issues within its Code.

Prior to joining the NAI, Anthony worked on a number of legal and technology-related issues in the public and private sector. He served as an Attorney Advisor with the Social Security Administration where he performed appellate review of disability cases and helped develop an online tool for policy and compliance research. Prior to working at the Social Security Administration, Anthony worked as an attorney and web developer for two Internet startups. He leveraged his experience with PHP, Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to develop interactive websites and applications, including data privacy and information security training materials for corporate clients.

Anthony graduated from The George Washington University Law School in 2009, where he served as the Executive Editor of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. He received his B.A. cum laude in Economics and Political Science from the University of Florida in 2006, where he was a member of the Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honor Society.

Anthony Matyjaszewski
Associate Counsel Compliance & Technology

As Associate Counsel for Compliance and Technology, Anthony Matyjaszewski conducts the NAI's annual compliance reviews of member companies and manages the pre-certification and onboarding of new members. Leveraging a strong background in e-commerce, privacy, and technology law, Anthony serves as a strategic advisor for member companies on opt out best practices and compliance with the NAI Code of Conduct.  In addition, he is responsible for monitoring developments in state, federal, and foreign legislation that may impact the global online advertising ecosystem in order to help inform policy and best practice development at the NAI

Prior to joining the NAI, Anthony researched and wrote about the issues at the intersection of law and technology. He has clerked at both the NAI and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) where he co-wrote an article on the changing meaning of personal data. Before pursuing his legal career, Anthony managed customer relations at an international travel company, where he played a key role in the transition from an offline to an online business model, focusing on data protection, web and email integration, and the implementation of an intuitive and customer friendly user interface.

He received his B.A. cum laude in Psychology from the University of Maine at Farmington, where he was a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society. Anthony earned a J.D. cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law.  Anthony is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, and Red Cross certified Wilderness Emergency Responder, and, in addition to English, is fluent in both French and Polish.

Charles Simon
Policy & Compliance Analyst, Technology Lead

As policy and compliance analyst and technology lead for the NAI, Charles monitors members' compliance with the NAI Code of Conduct and assists in developing and implementing technologies that enhance consumer transparency and control. In this role, Charles is a first responder in claims of technical non-compliance and issues with opt-outs across the NAI membership. 

Prior to joining the NAI, Charles worked on two national political campaigns and interned for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill. In these roles, he gained expertise in predictive statistics. He also created appropriations and amendment tracking technology. Privately, he consulted for online startups and has studied the technology and policy issues surrounding electronic governance, E-commerce, and domain allocation, as well as the everyday use of cryptography and steganography, which he studied in college.

Charles is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), native Washingtonian, and proud graduate of Oberlin College where he earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy.