Sandra Hughes
Procter & Gamble
Sandra R. Hughes serves as the Global Privacy Executive (CPO) at the Procter & Gamble Company, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Procter & Gamble's privacy program has been designed and implemented to promote trust among consumers, employees and other constituencies by protecting individual's rights to privacy as their own, while at the same time providing superior products and services to meet their needs. In this role, Sandy reports to the Vice-Chairman of the Board. As a member of P&G Corporate Strategy & Analysis, Sandy also has responsibility for managing New Growth Areas and the Corporate Competitive and Technical Intelligence organization, whose objective is to build capability and understanding of P&G's competitive environment, while upholding compliance to high ethical intelligence collection.
In both capacities, Sandy serves as a founding and board member of the P&G Information Security council. Sandy's career spans 27 years at the Procter & Gamble Company, with assignments in the US (Cincinnati & Alabama), Germany and Belgium. Having an Information Technology background from Miami University (OH), she has worked with every business unit and most functions in P&G, and lead local, regional and global projects, specializing in business process re-engineering.
She is a member of the board of directors for the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the executive committee of the Center for Information Privacy Leadership, and the executive council of the Conference Board of Chief Privacy Officers. She also founded the council of CPO's for RFID/Electronic Product Code Privacy implementation, is a member of the Public Policy Steering Committee of EPCglobal, and has been active in creating guidelines and as a speaker on use of item-level tagging.
She is an active participant and speaker with Frost & Sullivan Business Strategy & Intelligence groups, Competia International and has membership in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Privacy and American Business, Coalition for Global Information Flows, National Coalition for e-Commerce & Privacy.
Appearances
- RFID Exhibition & Policy Primer March 9, 2005
Biography last updated March 9, 2005