Folajimi Franklin Akinsuyi (LL.B, MSc, LLM)

Folajimi Franklin Akinsuyi is the Founding Partner of DataLaws, where he specialises in Information Technology Contract Negotiations, Information Security Law, Data Protection, Electronic Commerce and Identity Theft.

He h as considerable experience of Information Technology, business processes and has been involved in the implementation of Global IT projects.

Sectors he has worked in include the following:

• Government
  
• Information Technology
  
• Media
  
• Telecommunications
  
• Oil and Energy
  
• Insurance
  
• Finance and Banking

Franklin as he is known in professional circles has a first degree in law gained from The University of Ife, Masters in Business Information Technology (specialising in information security), which he gained from Middlesex University, and a Masters in Computers and Communications Law gained from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary, University of London).

Prior to establishing DataLaws, he worked extensively as an information security consultant utilising his hybrid skills to advise organisations on how to implement appropriate information security measures for complex projects in line with legislative and regulatory requirements.

Organisations where he has utilised these hybrid skills include the following:

Nortel Networks where he assisted in writing a logical security concept document in order for KNRW (Digital TV) to comply with German legislative requirements.

Centrica: Data Protection Audit Consultant: conducted a technical data protection review for the online House.co.uk environment and was also a Member of the British Gas Data Leadership Team.

• Flag Telecom
  
• Phillips (Netherlands)
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland
  
• BACS
  
• The Woolwich
  
• Nortel Networks/Oniway (Portugal)
  
• EnglandNet
  
• Allnet
  
• EDS/DWP

He has also provided consultancy to Marsh (Insurance), Shell (Oil), Unilever (Manufacturing) , Thermo Corporation (High-Tech Equipments), Telewest (Telecommunications) and United Utilities ( Energy) on implementation and remediation of Sarbanes–Oxley corporate governance general controls.

Franklin has also provided consultancy to third party outsourcing organisations tasked with providing support/ maintenance and processing of data on behalf of government departments.

Franklin's background ideally suits him to being able to understand the converging issues between information technology and law to enable him advise clients on how to map their complex technical projects to diverse legislative and regulatory requirements.

Franklin is also the Principal security consultant at Zylt consulting an Information Security Consultancy.

He is a member of both: The Society for Computers and Law (Internet Interest Group) and the British Computer Society.

email: fakinsuyi@datalaws.com