Empower Your Data with Purpose

When collecting data know that each piece of data has a specific, legitimate purpose. Consistently ensure compliance with privacy by design tools and documentation. Improve data ROI by removing waste and highlighting its value.

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About DataGiene

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Have Insight into the Why and How of your Data:

New privacy legislation requires companies to not only know what data they collect, but why, and how. The "why" and "how" are usually overlooked, but are critical for ethical and compliant data use. Conventional audits miss the context for data-use decision-making. Data-use decision-making is fluid, made for a purpose, and typically not documented. Shepherd captures these decisions in real time, which minimizes compliance friction. It enables more effective workflows and alleviates the need for post-hoc justifications for data use. Together with Shepherd, organizations can concentrate on the value of data and avoid loss.

Our Values

  • Design - Privacy is built into the product design process before engineering begins.
  • Workflow - Automated approvals and clear documentation replace complex audits.
  • Empowerment - Business and data teams easily request, review, and govern data use.

Our Approach

We’re committed to giving companies insight into the upside and downside of each piece of customer data they consider collecting. We’re passionate about helping businesses move on from the outdated paradigm of collecting all data.

DataGiene creates an efficient workflow that ensures privacy concerns are accounted for during the design proposal process. Engineers are only involved when data collection purposes and uses are deemed appropriate.

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Business Advocates

Business Advocates are anyone within an organization who needs to use data. Digital marketers, ecommerce directors, and financial analysts all need access to data in order to perform their functions. Shepherd OS makes requests for data easy with context-rich and detailed forms and a clear channel for submission, review, and approval. When business stakeholders spend less time looking for data, they can spend more time being effective team members.

Data Authorities

Shepherd empowers Data Authorities to make informed and impactful decisions about data usage within the organization. Data Authorities can examine the details of data lease requests, perform discovery, notate, reject, and approve requests based on the context provided through Shepherd. Data Authorities are currently hamstrung by esoteric and high-friction data practices. Shepherd OS provides a set of powerful tools to Data authorities making discovery, permissioning, and triage operations straightforward.

Technicians

Shepherd OS provides technicians with all the tools they need to easily connect new repositories of any data structure. Shepherd provides automated mapping of data fields to Human Attributes with the ability to make manual adjustments. A mapped and connected repository provides a comprehensive overview of and valuable insight into the data an organization is storing. No more fielding mundane requisition requests or jotting down keys on post-it notes. After connection is complete, technicians can turn their attention back to other engineering tasks.

Purpose-Driven Privacy

Transforming Compliance into Competitive Advantage.

Modern Data Governance Starts with Purpose

Privacy by Design: Smarter Data, Better Decisions
Eliminate Risk and Waste with Purposeful Data Use
Redefine Privacy Compliance with Intelligent Data Management

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DataGiene provides a product called Shepherd OS to help organizations transform how they think about and operate their data privacy, compliance, and operational processes. Shepherd invites organizations to embed privacy into the operational workflow of their daily lives and rethink data collection to have a clear, legitimate purpose; to develop a heightened respect for personal data; and ultimately engender a governance approach that reduces risk, enhances data return on investment, and curtails costly and time-consuming audits:

  • Shepherd OS – a purpose driven data workflow platform
  • Automated approval workflows
  • Technical integration tools
  • Risk and compliance management
  • Business language training
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Mission of the Organization:

Help organizations and companies be smart, responsible and effective data stewards.

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Why Use This Product:

  • Think about privacy at the planning stage—not later as an afterthought.
  • Be more time efficient for your business users, data authority and engineers using automated, simple, transparent workflows.

MEET OUR TEAM

DataGiene — Guiding Teams to Smarter, Safer Data Decisions.

James is a licensed California attorney specializing in data regulations. Previously, James worked at Gravity Payments managing the sales teams for the Western United States and in marketing and public relations at Vulcan, Inc. (the project management company of Paul G. Allen) before getting his JD/MBA at Northwestern University. James enjoys bridging law and business with a particular passion for clearing the confusion of legal obstacles that can impede company growth.
JAMES LARSEN
JAMES LARSEN
CEO
Niina has nearly a decade of legal experience as a senior paralegal, working in both Japan, her home country, and the United States. Her focus areas were corporate transactions, intellectual property, and litigation. Niina believes strongly in the need for data privacy and has long been an advocate of more responsible stewardship of sensitive user information. She believes that companies need better tools in order to achieve this.
NIINA FUJIOKA
NIINA FUJIOKA
COO
Over the past decade, Christian has worked for a wide variety of tech firms. Hailing from Minnesota, he's built Cisco voice networks, health insurance adjudication software for UHG, and nursing facility patient management software. He has worked for 2 startups, one of which was acquired by Autodesk. After moving to Seattle, he worked on payment platform functionalities and optimizations for Expedia. With such a wide level exposure to different industries and technology stacks, a passion to establish responsible data handling was born.
Christian Gerrard
Christian Gerrard
CTO
Marcus currently serves as the Chief Privacy Counsel for Argo Group. Previously, he served as the Former Chief Privacy Officer at eBay Inc., responsible for the privacy at all eBay Inc. companies, including eBay Marketplaces, StubHub, and eBay Classifieds Group. Lead eBay Inc's GDPR Gap and readiness assessment, and designed and implemented its GDPR compliance program. He is also a 17-year attorney in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
MARCUS MORISSETTE
MARCUS MORISSETTE
ADVISOR

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Our Location

716 Main St, Montauk
New York, NY 11954

Phone Number

+1 213-632-3128

Email Address

Contact@datagiene.com

Business Hours

Monday - Friday: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM