About Us: Privacy Analytics Technology Development Leadership

Privacy Analytics software provides integrated masking and de-identification capability

Privacy Analytics Inc. is a 2007 spin-off from the Electronic Health Information Laboratory (EHIL), one of the leading edge scientific laboratories working in the area of re-identification risk assessment and de-identification. Our team has leading scientists working with an experienced management team to make de-identification simple.

We have developed the only commercially available integrated masking and de-identification tool on the market today, and the only tool that incorporates a risk-based approach. In addition to our clients using this tool to mask and de-identify data before they disclose it for secondary purposes, we use this tool to rapidly provide quantitative HIPAA certifications and recommendations to our clients.

The Privacy Analytics Executive Team

Dr. Khaled El Emam

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Khaled El Emam is the founder and CEO of Privacy Analytics. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the university.

In 2003 and 2004, Dr. El Emam was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by The Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement.

Dr. El Emam is senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and leads the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory (EHIL) team.

Sheldon Stevens

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Stevens qualified as a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Management Consultant. He has worked with Ernst & Young’s accounting and management consulting groups before joining Husky Injection Molding Systems where he implemented an EVATM based incentive compensation system. He joined Deloitte Consulting in 1995, where he managed projects within both the Value Based Management and Change Leadership service lines.

Over the past 10 years Mr. Stevens has been the CFO for a dozen local early stage companies in Ottawa.

Mr. Stevens has sat on the board of HireTopTalent Inc, Network Planning Systems, IPeak Networks and MyHealth Interactive Magazine.

Jay Innes

VP of Marketing

Jay Innes is a 20-year professional in the fields of communications, marketing, program management and not-for-profit fundraising. A veteran journalist, Jay studied Canada's Access to Information Act to write Secrets in High Places (Dundurn, 2003) and produce the documentary of the same name. A leading political scientist called the project "essential reading for all those who want to understand government".

Jay is also the creator and past chair of the Charity Classic for the Down Syndrome Association of the National Capital Region and leveraged his planning and executing strengths as the creator and senior producer of a weekly Ottawa politics TV show.

Jay has a Master of Journalism degree from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Art from Dalhousie University.

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