Indian-American CEO of Atlanta-based OneTrust Kabir Barday was announced a national winner in the Emerging category at the Ernst & Young U.S. Entrepreneur of the Year Award event.

FREMONT, CA: Ernst & Young announced its U.S. Entrepreneur of the Year Nov. 16, and while no Indian American was the winner of the overall competition, one was among the secondary winners announced at the Palm Desert, California-based event.

Founder and chief executive officer of Atlanta, Georgia-based OneTrust, Kabir Barday was named the winner in the Emerging category. A total of 11 entrepreneurs were recognized in different types. Barday is a graduate of Georgia Tech, founded OneTrust, a privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform, in 2016. Before OneTrust, he worked at VMware AirWatch and BlackRock.

OneTrust is co-headquartered in London and Atlanta and has offices in Bangalore, San Francisco, Melbourne, New York, Munich and Hong Kong. Its fast-growing team of privacy, security and third-party risk technology experts surpasses 1,000 employees worldwide. Powered by an intelligence database of hundreds of laws, OneTrust adapts to the jurisdictions and frameworks that matter most to the user, generating the right dashboards, visuals and record-keeping report the user need, it said. OneTrust products can be used separately or seamlessly incorporate together in order to give users the right-sized technology for your privacy, security and third-party risk programs.

OneTrust is trusted by more than 3,000 companies to comply with the CCPA, GDPR, ISO27001 and hundreds of the world's privacy and security laws. OneTrust's three primary offerings include OneTrust Privacy Management Software, OneTrust Preference Choice consent and preference management software and OneTrust Vendorpedia third-party risk management software and vendor risk exchange, according to the website.

Debra von Storch, Entrepreneur Of The Year, EY America's director, said in a statement that leaders in their respective industries, the category winners have been driven by their desire to better the world around them, stopping at nothing to achieve their highest ambitions.

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