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Sanaea is the Chief Legal Officer at Zyte, one of the world’s leading web data extraction software and services providers. She has nearly 20 years of experience representing a wide variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 to emerging tech companies and start-ups. She has held legal, compliance, and operations C-level roles in various tech companies over the last decade.

Sanaea is one of the leading experts on web data extraction laws, which include contract, data protection, copyright, and AI laws, and frequently speaks and writes about ethical web data extraction and compliance. She is very passionate about ethical and compliant open access to web data and is excited to be a part of creating industry standards and best practices as co-chair of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative.

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i2Coalition Group Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI)
i2Coalition Position Working Group Chair
Company Oxylabs
Company Position Head of Legal

As a Head of Legal at Oxylabs, a leading web intelligence collection platform, Denas oversees a team of more than 10 legal professionals who work in various fields from commercial, patent law to litigation processes. Before joining Oxylabs, Denas Grybauskas had been polishing his legal experience in a global law firm, Eversheds Sutherland, gained business acumen in Vilniaus Prekyba, the largest Lithuanian company group, and even co-founded a legal startup.

Denas’ skills and interest in the tech world allowed him to establish himself as one of the leading legal counsels in the industry. Due to his extensive expertise in the field, Denas also became a well-known thought leader and one of the voices of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative, providing commentaries on the biggest industry events to the media and sharing his knowledge with students and professors at prestigious universities.

i2Coalition Group VPN Trust Initiative
i2Coalition Position Working Group Chair
Company Nord Security
Company Position Product Counsel

Emilija Beržanskaitė is Product Counsel at Nord Security, where she primarily specializes in regulatory matters in the digital space. She has in-depth experience in EU law, spanning cybersecurity, online safety, and competition law, and is accredited with CIPP/E certification in data protection.

i2Coalition Group VPN Trust Initiative
i2Coalition Position Working Group Chair
Company ExpressVPN
Company Position Director, Communications & Advocacy

Lauren Hendry Parsons is co-Chair of the VTI and Director of Communications & Advocacy at ExpressVPN, where she acts as a Digital Rights Advocate to help people understand the importance of digital privacy and security. She believes that protecting online rights and freedoms has never been more critical and works to empower over four million users in 180 countries to take control of their online experience. Lauren has spent over 15 years working in strategic communications and stakeholder engagement across APAC and the UK and is an experienced public speaker as well as an accredited mediator.

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David Snead is the General Counsel for cPanel. He is responsible for cPanel’s global legal operations and is a member of the company’s management team.  In this role, he has principal responsibility for customer-facing agreements, regulatory compliance, vendor and partner negotiations, intellectual property, brand communication, mergers and acquisitions, legislative and international business issues. David has provided advice and counsel to technology companies since 1995 beginning with a practice based on technology exports.  Since 1999, his practice has focused exclusively on the Internet infrastructure industry.  Since his practice began, he has worked in large firms, as in-house counsel, and as a solo practitioner.  In 2011 he co-founded the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (I2Coalition), an advocacy organization for the Internet infrastructure industry.  One of the earliest opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the i2Coalition has developed into a voice for a previously unrepresented industry.  He manages the group’s global public policy portfolio.  David received his J.D. in 1991 from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. in 1987 in International Affairs from Trinity University in San Antonio.  He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and State of New Mexico.

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