Seattle, August 15, 2022: Hintze Law PLLC is delighted to announce that Sam Castic has joined the firm as its newest Partner. Sam comes to Hintze Law’s Seattle office with over 15 years of global privacy and cybersecurity experience, most recently as Chief Privacy Officer for Blackhawk Network and as Senior Director Privacy & Associate General Counsel at Nordstrom. In addition to Sam’s experience leading corporate privacy teams and programs, he has advised clients ranging from early-stage startups to large global corporations on privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection matters at Orrick and at K&L Gates.
“Having worked side by side with Sam on complex privacy and cybersecurity issues over the years, we have always been impressed with his keen intellect, pragmatic expertise, and collaborative leadership style,” said Susan Hintze, Managing Member Partner at Hintze Law, “We are honored to bring Sam’s skills to support our clients and mentor our growing team at Hintze Law.”
At Blackhawk Network, a leading global payment network, Sam drove enterprise efforts to address new and changing global privacy laws in a scalable forward-looking manner. At Nordstrom, he led the teams responsible for privacy law, compliance, and operations, supporting all the company’s divisions. At Nordstrom Sam supported all Nordstrom divisions, including Nordstrom Federal Savings Bank, Nordstrom Card Services, and the HIPAA covered prosthesis department on privacy legal requirements, and established company strategy and operations to grow and maintain customer trust in data practices. Sam has also worked as in-house counsel at T-Mobile where he supported the marketing and advertising teams including on data, policy, and privacy compliance.
Sam excels at giving practical recommendations that enable business strategies to succeed with uncertain and changing privacy laws and expectations. In addition to advising on approaches to design, maintain, and optimize privacy programs, teams, and operations, he also provides strategic and tactical support.
Sam has earned the Privacy Law Specialist, CIPP/US, CIPM, and FIP certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is also an active member of the National Lambda Legal National Leadership Council.
Hintze Law PLLC is a Chambers-ranked, boutique privacy firm that provides counseling exclusively on global data protection. Its attorneys and privacy analysts support technology, ecommerce, advertising, media, retail, healthcare, and mobile companies, organizations, and industry associations in all aspects of privacy and data security.