Gamelah Palagonia

Gamelah Palagonia serves as a Principal and Cyber Practice Leader at Vanbridge, where she leads the Cyber Practice. Her team specializes in placing Cyber Liability, Technology Professional Liability, and related lines for Private Equity and Venture Capital-backed portfolio companies.

With over 25 years of experience in the professional liability insurance industry, Ms. Palagonia has focused on technology professional liability and cyber liability insurance since 1998. She possesses considerable expertise in developing manuscript policy language for emerging digital and data privacy risks.

Prior to joining Vanbridge, Ms. Palagonia was an Executive Vice President at Willis Towers Watson’s (WTW) FINEX, Cyber/E&O Group. Before her tenure at WTW, she founded Privacy Professionals LLC, a cyber insurance brokerage and data privacy risk management firm.

Ms. Palagonia is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) and holds several information privacy certifications, including:

• Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)

• Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT)

• Certified Information Privacy Professional – United States (CIPP/US)

• Certified Information Privacy Professional – European Data Protection (CIPP/E)

• Certified Information Privacy Professional – U.S. Government (CIPP/G)

Additionally, she holds three insurance designations:

• Associate in Risk Management (ARM)

• Registered Professional Liability Underwriter PLUS (RPLU+)

• Cyber Professional Liability Practitioner (CPLP)

Ms. Palagonia is a proud member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS).