Minnesota Privacy Consultants (MPC) seeks to provide world-class advice on data privacy, data security, and data retention at Midwestern rates.  Founded in 2006 by former CPO and Computerworld columnist Jay Cline, MPC counts among its clients companies with revenues ranging from $500 million to over $100 billion in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, government, retail, technology, consumer services, information services, energy, agribusiness, and manufacturing industries.  

MPC’s core strengths are retained CPO services, global privacy compliance, data mapping, and awareness and training campaigns for privacy and security.  Through the Privacy Consortium, we tap into a network of pre-qualified privacy consultants with offices across all regions of the United States, Toronto, Paris, and Sydney. 

For services related to our core strengths, MPC maintains a broad supplier network to assist our clients.  As one example, we have a partnership with Avior Computing to provide web-based privacy and security assessments of internal functions and outside vendors.  We also refer our clients to other reliable companies than can assist them with specialized tasks, and we do not generally accept finders fees for these referrals.

We seek to be known by these qualities:

• Experience.  We’re a global network of former corporate privacy and security leaders and practitioners with experience in every privacy standard. We’re bureaucratically wise, not consultants right out of college.  

• Innovation.  Implementing privacy and security solutions in large multinationals is as much art as it is science. We use creative, interdisciplinary thinking and persistent follow-through to deploy privacy best practices within your consensus-based environment.

• Value.  With MPC, you don’t pay for downtown skyscrapers or bonuses for executives who never work on your projects. We believe in old-fashioned business practices like handshakes, putting people before money, and keeping our word.

Leadership

Jay Cline, President of Minnesota Privacy Consultants, is a former chief privacy officer of Carlson Companies, IT management consultant at EDS, and international trade-law expert in the U.S. Government. Cline, a Certified Information Privacy Professional, holds leadership positions in the International Association of Privacy Professionals, is a privacy columnist for Computerworld and INSIDE 1to1: Privacy, and was the winner of the 2005 Barbara Wellbery Memorial Award, an international privacy essay contest.  His work has appeared in several business publications, and he is a regular speaker on information risk management. In 2006, Cline founded the Twin Cities Privacy Network, (www.twincitiesprivacy.com), the area's first privacy association.

For a list of the MPC President’s articles and presentations, click here.