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About the Contributors
Jennifer Best, J.D. is a Corporate Vice President at New York Life
Insurance Company where she has worked for over sixteen years.
She began her career as a litigation attorney, which ultimately led to a
career working in compliance.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from John Jay College of Criminal Jus-
tice and a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law.
William Saffady is an experienced records management and infor-
mation governance consultant and researcher based in New York
City. Since 1976, Dr. Saffady has served as an information manage-
ment consultant, providing analytical services and training, to corpo-
rations, government agencies, not-for-profit entities, cultural institu-
tions, and other organizations. These projects have involved the de-
velopment of strategic plans and governance models for records
management programs, needs assessments and gap analysis, and
the development of record retention policies and schedules,
Additionally, he is the author of over three dozen books and many ar-
ticles on records management, record retention, document storage
and retrieval technologies, and other information management topics.
His latest book, Record Retention Requirements: A Guide to 100
Commonly-Encountered Record Series, will be published in January
2018 by ARMA International (the Association of Records Managers
and Administrators).
Other recent titles published by ARMA International in the indicated
years include Information Governance: Concepts, Requirements,
Technology (2017); the third edition of Records and Information Man-
agement: Fundamentals of Professional Practice (2016), the most
widely used textbook on records management; Legal Requirements
for Electronic Records Retention in Asia (2015); Legal Requirements
for Electronic Records Retention in Western Europe (2014); Legal
Requirements for Electronic Records Retention in Eastern Europe
(2014); and Email Retention and Archiving: Issues and Guidance for
Compliance and Discovery (2013).
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