Evelyn de Souza is an experienced professional with 15+ years of expertise in security assurance, privacy, and compliance. She specializes in making these subjects business-consumable and differentiators for brands, allowing companies to achieve quantifiable ROI on their investments. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and completed teaching credentials from Monash University.

De Souza has an extensive career history, having held leadership, consulting, and advisory roles at various high-profile organizations. She currently serves as Trust, Privacy and Compliance Leader for Oracle SaaS Services, where she provides insight into GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, HIPAA, ISO 27001/2, ISO 27018, ISO 27702, and CSA Cloud Controls Matrix, which she formerly chaired. Her areas of expertise include privacy and vendor risk program management, third-party audits, risk management, data masking, tokenization and encryption, identity management and access control, and cloud access security brokers that enable data residency.

De Souza has earned several awards and recognitions throughout her career, including being named to CloudNOW's Top 10 Women in Cloud, a Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence, and multiple recognitions from Onalytica as a thought influencer on security, privacy, and compliance.