Alya Sulaiman

Alya Sulaiman JD, CIPP/US, leads compliance, privacy, product counseling, and regulatory affairs at Datavant. As Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer, she drives Datavant’s compliance and privacy strategy and provides expertise on healthcare’s evolving regulatory framework for data access, use, and interoperability. Alya has more than a decade of experience providing digital health product counseling and has worked with leading technology companies to guide the development and commercialization of new health IT software and tech-enabled services. She also has deep expertise with artificial intelligence governance in healthcare, including guiding AI risk assessments and mitigation plans, vendor oversight, and responsible AI training.

Before joining Datavant, Alya was a Partner at McDermott Will & Schulte, where she helped innovators and healthcare companies address their AI, interoperability, and data use/strategy needs. Alya also previously worked at the intersection of healthcare and technology as corporate counsel and the director of health policy and regulatory affairs for Epic. Earlier in her career, she held roles leading privacy and legal functions at Manifest MedEX (formerly known as Cal INDEX), a multi-specialty healthcare provider, and an innovative software analytics company.