WSFS Announces Nara Lilly as Senior Vice President, Privacy Officer

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01/18/2024 - 09:36 AM

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WSFS Bank, the primary subsidiary of WSFS Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WSFS), is pleased to announce the hire of Nara Lilly as Senior Vice President, Privacy Officer, reporting to Patrick Killeen, Chief Compliance Officer.

In her role, Lilly will promote an enterprise-wide culture of confidentiality and ethical use of data, maintain subject matter expertise of privacy laws and regulations, identify trends in data privacy, advise on privacy risks, and develop a comprehensive compliance risk-based infrastructure to safeguard our stakeholders.

“We are thrilled to have Nara join us to partner with various teams to lead our privacy framework within WSFS,” said Killeen. “Nara is an attorney by trade who gravitated toward data science and big data analytics in her post-graduate studies. She brings nearly 20 years of experience to WSFS, having worked within National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Privacy and Cybersecurity frameworks as well as implementing privacy technologies at an enterprise level. She will be a great addition to WSFS.”

“I’m excited to join a storied and growing Company like WSFS and look forward to collaborating with teams across the enterprise to enhance and promote data privacy and security for WSFS and our Customers,” said Lilly.

Prior to joining WSFS, Lilly was Senior Data Privacy and Protection Analyst at RD Station. She also previously served as Data Protection Officer and Compliance Officer at Méliuz S/A, a Latin American FinTech company operating in Brazil, Europe and the United States, where she led the strategic creation and successful implementation of robust data privacy compliance initiatives, conducted risk evaluations, developed and implemented privacy policies, and more.

Lilly received her bachelor’s degree of law from Pontifícia Univ. Católica de Goiás, completed post-graduate studies in Data Science and Big Data Analytics at Faculdade Metropolitana, and is currently pursuing post-graduate studies in Information Security at Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial (SENAC). She is also ISO certified as a lead implementer for privacy management systems as well as compliance management systems.

About WSFS Financial Corporation

WSFS Financial Corporation is a multibillion-dollar financial services company. Its primary subsidiary, WSFS Bank, is the oldest and largest locally headquartered bank and trust company in the Greater Philadelphia and Delaware region. As of September 30, 2023, WSFS Financial Corporation had $20.0 billion in assets on its balance sheet and $77.6 billion in assets under management and administration. WSFS operates from 116 offices, 88 of which are banking offices, located in Pennsylvania (59), Delaware (40), New Jersey (14), Florida (1), Nevada (1) and Virginia (1) and provides comprehensive financial services including commercial banking, consumer banking, treasury management and trust and wealth management. Other subsidiaries or divisions include Arrow Land Transfer, Bryn Mawr Capital Management, LLC, Bryn Mawr Trust^®, The Bryn Mawr Trust Company of Delaware, Cash Connect^®, NewLane Finance^®, Powdermill^® Financial Solutions, WSFS Institutional Services^®, WSFS Mortgage^®, and WSFS Wealth^® Investments. Serving the Greater Delaware Valley since 1832, WSFS Bank is one of the ten oldest banks in the United States continuously operating under the same name. For more information, please visit www.wsfsbank.com.