Dr. Ilia Kolochenko is a Swiss cybersecurity and cybercrime investigations expert and a lawyer specialized in data protection and privacy law. He currently serves as CEO at ImmuniWeb, a global cybersecurity and compliance company serving over 1,000 enterprise customers from more than 50 countries. Kolochenko also teaches cybersecurity and cyber law as an adjunct professor in the U.S. and is a faculty member at the D.C. Bar Continuous Legal Education Program, where he teaches data protection for lawyers in Washington. With almost two decades of practice in information security and digital forensics, he holds a Ph.D. in computer science and several advanced degrees in law.

Kolochenko is a vice chair of the Information Security Committee at the American Bar Association and a member of the Privacy Bar Section Advisory Board at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is also a member of the Europol Data Protection Experts Network, Interpol Digital Forensics Expert Group, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and SANS Institute CISO Network.

Kolochenko is a Fellow of Information Privacy and Privacy Law Specialist at the IAPP―the two most advanced credentials offered by the IAPP in privacy management and privacy law, respectively. He also holds several advanced certifications in financial crime and fraud investigations and anti-money laundering from ACAMS including Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Advanced CAMS-Audit (CAMS-Audit), Advanced CAMS-Financial Crimes Investigations (CAMS-FCI), Advanced CAMS-Risk Management (CAMS-RM), Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS), Certified Cryptoasset Anti-Financial Crime Specialist (CCAS) and Certified Anti-Fraud Specialist (CAFS). Kolochenko is a fellow at the European Law Institute and a fellow at the British Chartered Institute for IT.