Ken Sponsler, CIPP, PMP
Vice President & General Manager, CompliancePoint

Ken Sponsler brings more than 25 years of leadership and management experience and thousands of hours of process engineering and consulting expertise to CompliancePoint, a PossibleNOW company. In his role as Vice President & General Manager of CompliancePoint, Ken manages an ever-growing team of consumer privacy preference compliance consultants and services. Ken and his team have performed dozens of US federal and state telemarketing and DNC, CAN-SPAM, Junk Fax and Mail compliance assessments and audits. Prior to CompliancePoint, he assisted PossibleNOW with the development of company-wide compliance and audit procedures.

Ken has extensive experience conducting marketing, data security and privacy compliance consulting assignments for a wide variety of companies including Fortune 500 clients. He was instrumental in designing the primary compliance process that PossibleNOW offers to its corporate customers on an outsourced basis.

Ken serves with the American Teleservices Association as a member of the federal legislative committee, state legislative committee, DNC implementation committee and the compliance officer’s forum. Ken is a member of the board of directors for the ATA’s Southeast chapter. Ken also serves on the Consumer Marketing Working Group of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Ken is a frequent speaker at industry events including the ATA Teleservices Annual Convention and DMA Teleservices Conference.

Prior to joining PossibleNOW, Ken was a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton providing consulting services to large organizations. He participated in numerous consulting projects for the government and military including establishing modularity design and organizational changes adopted by the US Army, the development of operations documents for the Air Assault Expeditionary Force project, and project management and contract tracking for the ARL-SOCOM project.

Ken earned certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP). Ken is also among the first to earn certification as an American Teleservices Association Self Regulatory Organization Auditor. (ATA-SRO). Ken also holds Department of Defense level security clearances.