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Marc M. Groman
Executive Director and General Counsel

As Executive Director of NAI, Marc Groman leads the organization’s growth and ongoing efforts to develop and maintain high standards for online behavioral 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.

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.

Meredith Halama
Deputy General Counsel and Director of Policy and Compliance

As Deputy General Counsel and Director of Policy and Compliance for the NAI, Meredith Halama heads the NAI's compliance program. With over a decade of experience in privacy, Internet, and communications law, Meredith 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, Meredith helps to ensure that NAI member companies deliver on the promise of self-regulation for online behavioral advertising.

Prior to joining the NAI, Meredith was counsel in the Communications, Privacy, and Internet law group of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr, where she counseled a wide range of clients on issues relating to privacy, technology, and information security law and represented clients in rulemaking and enforcement proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and other agencies.

Earlier in her career, she clerked for the Honorable James F. Holderman, Chief Judge of the Northern District of Illinois.

Meredith graduated Order of the Coif and magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1999, where she served as Articles Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review. A Certified Information Privacy Professional, she received her B.A. in History from Northwestern University in 1995.

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.

Jennifer Wynn
Project Coordinator and Policy Analyst

As Project Coordinator & Policy Analyst for the NAI, Jennifer Wynn is responsible for managing the daily operations of the organization. Working closely with Executive Director Marc Groman, Jennifer handles administrative support, operational management, research, communication and member outreach, and other functions that help ensure the NAI team accomplishes its goals and meets deadlines.

Jennifer brings extensive political advocacy and communications experience to her role with the NAI, having previously interned with the ONE Campaign, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Congressman John Carney, the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, and Discovery Communications in policy, legislative, environmental, and communications roles.

Jennifer received her B.A. in Political Science and a minor in environmental studies from the University of Michigan. She is currently a candidate for a master’s degree in Public Policy from the George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.