About

Catherine Morrongiello Conte is the senior corporate counsel and privacy officer at Toyota Motor Corporation Australia. She is an experienced lawyer, with over 10 years PQE, largely in corporate in-house and government regulatory roles. She combines experience of data protection and privacy, IT services, competition and consumer law, product liability, and contracting with generalist commercial in-house experience. Her career has gone from strength to strength since her qualification and move to the in-house sector. An IP specialist, Conte started her in-house career at the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) in 2007 and took on a secondment at The Walt Disney Corporation in 2011. From there she moved to Level 3, a Fortune 500 international communications company specialising in IP transit networks. Then in 2014 she joined Toyota and has rapidly progressed to her current role in five years. Last year she took on the additional responsibility of privacy officer, a demonstration of her talent and experience. Conte possesses all of the attributes of a top general counsel within the IP sector and will certainly make the leap to upper management in the near future.