Kristin Meister

Wayne Kaufman

Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and the Data Privacy Officer at ORBCOMM Inc.

Wayne Kaufman is a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and the Data Privacy Officer at ORBCOMM Inc., a leading provider of global satellite and cellular data communications IoT/M2M solutions with headquarters in Rochelle Park, NJ and offices both across the US and subsidiaries operating globally, including in Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa.  Mr. Kaufman is responsible for providing leadership and strategic legal support covering domestic and international issues facing the company, including data privacy, corporate governance, internal and statutory compliance, IP Portfolio management and third-party risk management.  Mr. Kaufman also provides assistance related to M&A, finance matters, ESG and the negotiation of complex commercial transactions. 

Before joining ORBCOMM, Wayne was an Assistant General Counsel at KPMG and, for 11 years prior, an Associate General Counsel at AIG.  While at AIG, Mr. Kaufman was the sole attorney supporting the global engineered risk and loss control groups such as: environmental, healthcare, safety, marine, energy, aerospace, casualty, property and enterprise crisis management and managing the vendor management group associated with the loss control and domestic claims groups.  During that time Mr. Kaufman also served as Assistant Secretary for the AIG domestic claim companies, handling corporate governance and compliance matters for those entities.  Mr. Kaufman has also served as General Counsel of MusicVision, Inc., an internet media company after starting his career in usual fashion as a corporate associate at the law firm of Brown Raysman.  He graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1997 and received his BA from SUNY Albany in 1991.