Biography

Harry Maugans is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Privacy Bee, the external data privacy platform headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

He has spent more than twenty years building and leading technology companies, starting in 1999 with Penguin Studios, a web development and IT firm founded at the front edge of the commercial web.

Before Privacy Bee he founded and led Clickagy, an AI-powered buyer-intent data company. At acquisition, Clickagy processed more than six trillion new keyword-to-device pairings every month across over 300,000 publisher domains, sourced from more than 91% of accessible devices in the United States. ZoomInfo (Nasdaq: GTM) acquired Clickagy in October 2020, and its real-time intent engine became ZoomInfo's Streaming Intent product. The entire Clickagy team joined ZoomInfo, where Harry served as Vice President of Product Management and ran product for the intent business through 2021, by the end of which ZoomInfo was worth nearly $26 billion.

Privacy Bee started because he went hunting for a service to protect his own privacy and could not find one doing it right. Working in adtech with all the major data brokers had shown him which companies actually sold people's data and where it ended up, and when the Clickagy sale was about to put his own information into SEC filings, nothing on the market deleted data from the places that mattered. Under his leadership Privacy Bee became the only data removal service PCMag rates a perfect 5.0, and won Gold for Best Cybersecurity Strategy at the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.

He is a regular national voice on data brokers, surveillance technology, online scams and privacy law, appearing across CNN and FOX, NBC and CBS affiliates nationwide. In 2024 he worked with a lobbying firm to get a data privacy bill introduced in the Georgia State Senate; it did not advance.

He lives on a family farm outside Atlanta with his wife and their two daughters. Away from the work he reads physics and philosophy, and flies.