Joseph P. Facciponti

Joseph Facciponti is a former federal prosecutor with in-house experience whose practice focuses on cybersecurity, data privacy, compliance counseling, and white collar matters. For nearly nine years, Mr. Facciponti was a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he handled cases involving a wide-range of financial and computer crimes. In 2010, he received an FBI Director’s Award for outstanding cyber investigation, based on his work in investigating and disrupting a major international computer hacking ring that targeted financial institutions. After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Facciponti held a supervisory position in the legal department of HSBC, where he led global internal investigations and advised HSBC regarding its financial crime compliance programs.

Mr. Facciponti teaches a cyber and privacy law course at Cornell Law School and Cornell University’s Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island and is Chair of the Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association’s Information Technology and Cyber Law Committee. He has been certified as an information privacy professional (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Mr. Facciponti graduated, magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School and obtained a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University.