Michael Dolan

Michael Dolan’s expertise and accomplishments surround risk-management programs and the successful use and protection of data in a manner that meets regulatory and customer expectations—leading programs to meet business objectives while efficiently mitigating risk at large, international institutions. His focus has been on AI governance, cybersecurity, data protection, data usage, ERM, information security, and privacy through CCO, CISO, CPO, legal counsel, and executive risk-management roles. He has excelled at leveraging “leadership by influence” to drive clear solutions resolving the grey areas of existing legal concepts, regulatory expectations, and market demands as applied to cutting-edge information technologies and risk-management programs.Mr. Dolan has hands-on, executive-management experience concerning compliance risk, ERM, information security, operational risk, privacy, and supplier risk-management programs. He has spoken at the White House, CES, RSA, and a number of international, national, and regional forums on such programs and on related topics such as privacy and autonomous vehicles, rapidly changing state-law obligations, and the #USCyberTrustMark Program.Mr. Dolan also played a significant role in Best Buy’s U.S. efforts to support employees and mitigate risk in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to ensure that Best Buy supported consumers, businesses, and public-health efforts as a recognized “essential business” across nearly all North American jurisdictions. He was responsible for the content of the COVID-19 Health Screening, embodying bespoke quarantine/isolation requirements executed daily by tens of thousands of workers for 29 months, led multiple initiatives to leverage technology or enhanced ventilation/filtration practices to address pandemic risks, co-led Best Buy’s approaches to ease and encourage vaccination, and led Best Buy’s U.S. employee COVID-19 Testing Program.Mr. Dolan is a published author, past Minnesota Law & Politics “Rising Star,” and recipient of a national “Innovation Award” for his approach to cybersecurity challenges. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Law with the University of Minnesota Law School and as Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Bruce D. Willis of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.Mr. Dolan received his MBA, with a finance concentration, from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and JD, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School. Mike received his Bachelor of Science as a triple major from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.