Stuart Alderoty

General Counsel,
Ripple

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Stuart Alderoty is General Counsel at Ripple. Stuart brings more than 30 years of legal experience to the role with expertise in financial services and regulatory affairs. He’s been General Counsel and part of the executive leadership teams at CIT Group and HSBC North America Holdings. Stuart also was Managing Counsel at American Express where he served on the leadership team of the President and CEO of American Express’ Consumer Card Business. Stuart began his career in private practice and was a partner with the international law firm of LeBouef, Lamb, Greene and MacRae where he specialized in litigation.

Eva Almirantearena

Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Antitrust & Commercial Litigation,
Intel Corporation

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Eva Almirantearena is Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Antitrust and Commercial Litigation at Intel Corporation. Eva has been with Intel since 2004, mainly in the Litigation Group, handling a wide variety of matters, including antitrust litigation and investigations, commercial litigation and misappropriation of confidential information and trade secrets. Eva is Intel Legal’s Diversity Leader, a member of Intel Legal’s Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee and leads Intel Legal’s Outside Counsel Diversity & Inclusion Program team. She is also co-chair of Intel Legal’s Pro Bono Committee. Prior to joining Intel, Eva was an antitrust partner at Howrey in Northern California and, before that, was a trial attorney at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Damien Atkins

Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary,
The Hershey Compnay

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Damien Atkins is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for The Hershey Company, where he was responsible for leading the corporate secretary, government relations, legal and security functions.

Prior to joining Hershey in August of 2018, he was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Panasonic Corporation of North America. At Panasonic, he managed the company’s full litigation portfolio and led global legal teams in several multi-jurisdictional Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and antitrust investigations, lawsuits and claims. He also led a global legal team in the $1 billion acquisition of the Hussmann Corporation in 2016.

Before Panasonic, Damien was Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate and Chief Compliance Officer for AOL, Inc., leading a range of high-profile legal matters for the company, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate and real estate legal matters, including AOL’s spin‐off from Time Warner.

In 1998, Damien began his legal career as a corporate associate at Chadbourne & Parke (now known as Norton Rose).

Damien holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University where he was Senior Class President and a Mellon Scholar, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Kori Carew

Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer,
Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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Kori focuses on inclusive leadership development, cultural fluency, skill building to mitigate bias, and success strategies for professionals from underrepresented groups to innovate, integrate, and operationalize diversity, inclusion, and belonging into the business and practice of law at Seyfarth.

Kori is the firm’s external liaison and ambassador on inclusion and diversity for Seyfarth, along with the firm’s national Diversity and Inclusion Action Team (DIAT) Co-chairs and firm chair and managing partner leading all efforts of national partnerships and client engagement on inclusion and diversity. She works closely with the firm’s executive committee, practice department leaders, the national DIAT, and clients as well as office DIATs, the firm’s affinity groups, and the Human Resources, Talent Development, Marketing and Business Development, and Recruiting departments.

Kori is an innovative, collaborative team-builder with success working with diverse personalities, backgrounds, training, education, and experience, and in situations with sensitive and political considerations. Her executive diversity and inclusion leadership experience includes developing and implementing innovative programs to address diversity recruiting, engagement of diverse talent, and equipping leaders around courage and bias interruption.

Dr. Courtney Cogburn

CEO & Founder,
Cogburn Group LLC

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Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center. She employs a transdisciplinary research strategy to improve the characterization and measurement of racism and in examining the role of racism in the production of racial inequities in health. Dr. Cogburn’s work also explores the potential of media and technology in eradicating racism and eliminating racial inequities in health. She is the lead creator of 1000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality experience of racism that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival developed in collaboration with Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford University. Dr. Cogburn is developing additional projects attempting to leverage emerging technologies to tackle issues of structural and cultural racism. Dr. Cogburn completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar Program and at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology, and MSW from the University of Michigan and her BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Michelle Cooke

Partner,
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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Leader of Manatt’s IP Protection and Enforcement practice, Michelle Cooke helps IP owners build, protect and monetize assets domestically, internationally and online. She advises clients on brand strategies, online content, digital assets and real estate, international IP protection/enforcement, sale/acquisition of IP, trade secrets and privacy/data security.

Adopting a global perspective on preplanning, management and vigilance to promote IP value and lay the foundation for exploitation of the global marketplace. She has particular market knowledge of the entertainment, media, consumer products, apparel, and healthcare industries.

Michelle advises clients on trade secrets, privacy and data security, helping them minimize liability exposure and act when there has been unauthorized access and use of their IP. She assists companies in addressing phishing, email impersonation of employees and related brand rehabilitation. Additionally, Michelle leads dispute proceedings against infringers and counterfeiters, including administrative proceedings, customs seizures and online take-downs, as well as manages international litigation.

Michelle received her B.A. and J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law, and is admitted to practice in California and Washington, D.C.

Deneen Donnley

Senior Vice President & General Counsel,
Consolidated Edison Company of New York

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Deneen serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies. She previously served as Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to USAA. She also previously served as the general counsel for USAA Bank.

Before joining USAA, Deneen worked at ING DIRECT as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining ING DIRECT, she served as an attorney for Pepper Hamilton LLP and a staff attorney with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Deneen serves on the Boards of Directors of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) and Girls Inc. of New York City. She is a member of both the Executive Leadership Council and the Direct Women Board Institute.

A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, Deneen also received her Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law in New York.

Cynthia Dow

Managing Director, Head of Global Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Practice,
Russell Reynolds Associates

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Cynthia Dow leads the firm’s Boston office, covering the New England region. She also heads the global Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Officers Practice and is a senior member of the Consumer, Board & CEO and Diversity & Inclusion Practices. Cynthia focuses on General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and other board and corporate governance roles across a broad range of industries, including legal, consumer, industrial, technology, energy, sports and entertainment, healthcare and financial services. Her clients range from Fortune 500 organizations to global mid-cap and small-cap private organizations and portfolio companies of leading private equity firms.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Cynthia had a successful legal career as a corporate generalist, and labor and employment attorney. She practiced law for more than 15 years, as an attorney with Baker Botts LLP in Dallas, as the General Counsel to a technology company and as Vice President & Assistant General Counsel with Cadbury Schweppes. During her legal career, Cynthia led legal departments and advised across labor and employment, regulatory matters and corporate restructurings. Earlier in her career, she served as Senior Law Clerk to Chief Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of the Northern District of Texas.

Cynthia received her BA in government from Cornell University, with distinction, and her JD from the Columbia School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor of the Journal of Law and Social Problems. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is a retired member of the New York and Texas State Bars, and previously led the Board of Directors at the Dallas Contemporary art museum.

Andrew Droste

Board Advisory Specialist,
Russell Reynolds Associates

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Andrew is a member of the firm’s Board & CEO Advisory Partners. Based in Boston, he has significant experience working with Named Executive Officers (“NEOs”) and Board Members across all sectors on Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance (“ESG”) matters.

Professional Experience
Prior to joining RRA, Andrew was a member of the Proxy Voting Management Team at BNY Mellon. Andrew served as an ESG expert on the stewardship and proxy voting teams at both BNY Mellon and Nuveen.

At BNY Mellon, Andrew led ESG engagements, research, and risk analyses for the firm’s Proxy Voting and Governance Committee. This included setting internal ESG engagement priorities, conducting bespoke ESG risk assessments for each of the company engagements, and providing recommendations to portfolio managers vis-à-vis ESG-related shareholder proposals.

Prior to BNY, Andrew was a member of the Responsible Investing Team at Nuveen (TIAA’s investment services arm). While at Nuveen, Andrew generated and executed ESG engagement policies, crafting recommendations for executive compensation and shareholder proposals, proxy contests, “vote-no” campaigns, and other governance matters.

Andrew has participated in over 1,000 investor-NEO-director engagements with roughly 700 different U.S. and international public companies across all market sectors.

Education
Andrew has a B.S. in Government from Suffolk University, and a Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law.

Gary Eppinger

Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO),
Carnival Corporation & PLC

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Gary Eppinger is the Global VP, CISO and Privacy Officer for Carnival Corporation & PLC, a global cruise company and one of the largest vacation companies in the world. Gary has an extensive background in enterprise information security, risk management, business transformation, IT controls and Cyber Security. Gary conceives implements and leads technology solutions that protect corporate assets, increase organizational capability, and advance productivity of Fortune 100 companies. He has a deep understanding of business goals and drivers, and how to apply technology to achieve and support them. He is recognized internally and globally as highly valued resource, including being ranked 24th in ExecRank’s “Top Security Executive Rankings Gary is an active speaker on IT and Cyber Security while helping numerous companies as a valued board advisor.

Carolyn Frantz

Senior Counsel,
Orrick

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The former Corporate Secretary and head of the Corporate Legal Group at Microsoft, Carolyn Frantz advises clients on legal issues, especially in the technology industry, as part of Orrick’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice.

A former Rhodes Scholar, Carolyn clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David S. Tatel, before teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. She was a litigation partner at a major law firm for eight years before joining Microsoft, where she managed the company’s worldwide tax litigation until her appointment as Corporate Secretary.

As Microsoft’s Corporate Secretary, Carolyn had the opportunity to work closely with the company’s Board of Directors and senior leadership, gaining a first-hand understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing technology companies in a dynamic competitive and regulatory environment. As the head of the Corporate Legal Group, Carolyn was responsible for legal issues regarding securities law and disclosures, treasury and finance, international trade, procurement, real estate, and many other issues. Building on her extensive litigation experience, which includes managing tax disputes domestically and abroad, as well as litigating multi-district products liability and consumer cases and commercial contract disputes, including a victory for Microsoft in the first known major use of emergency arbitration, Carolyn understands the practical challenges companies face in litigation and how those intersect with Board reporting, securities disclosures, and internal accountability.

Anthony Goodman

Managing Director, Board & CEO Advisor,
Russell Reynolds Associates

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Anthony Goodman is a senior member of the firm’s Board & CEO Advisory Partners. Based in Boston, he has significant experience working with board directors and their stakeholders across sectors in the United States and Europe. Anthony advises boards of major public, private and family-owned businesses on a wide variety of confidential matters.

Professional Experience
Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Anthony spent more than 12 years at Tapestry Networks, an organization convening board directors, investors and regulators for peer learning and mutual understanding. As a Partner, Anthony created and led many board director networks, including those for Fortune 500 lead directors and audit committee chairs. He was also founder and co-chair of the Shareholder-Director Exchange (SDX), which developed the first protocol for board-shareholder engagement in the US. Before that, Anthony was the CEO of Smythe Dorward Lambert, Inc., a consultancy specializing in leadership development, change management and employee communication. He began his career in public relations in the UK.

Education & Affiliations
Anthony received his MA in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, where he was also elected president of the Oxford Union.

He is Co-Chair of The Conference Board ESG Center’s Human Capital Oversight & Disclosure Working Group. Anthony is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors in the US and the International Corporate Governance Network. He is Governance Committee chair for Boston Scores, providing after-school programs in public schools.

Rick Hansen

Assistant General Counsel & Corporate Secretary,
General Motors Company

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Rick E. Hansen is Assistant General Counsel–Corporate, Securities, Finance, and Compensation & Benefits–and Corporate Secretary at General Motors Company (Detroit, MI). He joined GM in March 2016. Prior to joining GM, Rick served as Assistant Corporate Secretary and Managing Counsel—Securities and Corporate Governance—at Chevron Corporation (San Ramon, CA) and, before that, Senior Corporate Counsel at Amazon.com, Inc. and Coinstar, Inc. (Seattle, WA). Before moving in-house, Rick was an associate in the Corporate Finance group at Perkins Coie LLP (Seattle, WA). He holds a Master of Laws (L.L.M, 2012), with distinction, in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center and a Juris Doctor (J.D., 2000), summa cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Corporate Governance.

DUANE HOLLOWAY

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer,
U.S. Steel Corporation

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Duane D. Holloway joined U. S. Steel in April 2018 to serve as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary. He was appointed the additional role of Chief Ethics Officer in September 2018. At U. S. Steel, Mr. Holloway holds executive responsibility for all legal, ethics and compliance matters across the company. He is also responsible for environmental affairs, corporate governance and managing relations with the company’s Board of Directors.

Before joining U.S. Steel, Mr. Holloway served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Ascena Retail Group Inc., then the largest women’s specialty retail and fashion company in the U.S. During his time at Ascena, Mr. Holloway served as Global Chief Legal, Compliance, Sustainability and Diversity officer. As a member of the company’s senior leadership team, Mr. Holloway played a key role in the development and execution of the company’s revised business strategy and transformation program. He also led the transformation of those departments under his purview, significantly improving processes, service levels, outcomes, expense controls and levels of engagement. Mr. Holloway also oversaw the development of Ascena’s first-ever enterprise diversity function and strategy, in addition to a comprehensive corporate social responsibility and philanthropic program.

Previously, Mr. Holloway served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Corelogic Inc., the leading global residential property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider. He oversaw members of the U.S. legal department advising on transactional, litigation, intellectual property, regulation, employment, antitrust, and governance matters. He also led the development of the department’s first-ever strategic plan.

Prior to joining CoreLogic, Mr. Holloway spent nine years at Caesars Entertainment Corp., the world’s largest gaming company at the time, where he progressed through increasingly responsible roles in the legal department before being named Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Operations and Litigation. In this role, he functioned as general counsel for the company’s global operations division, which included all casinos, resorts, hotels and other related holdings around the world, and helped lead the department’s continuous improvements to its operating model and strategy.

Mr. Holloway also practiced law at the firm now known as Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.

A native of Baltimore, Md., Mr. Holloway earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Virginia and received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

JENNIFER IVAN

Associate General Counsel,
Microsoft Corporation

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Jennifer Ivan is an Associate General Counsel for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, where she supports Microsoft’s Security, Compliance, and Management (SCM) group. In this role, she manages a team of legal professionals that provides general counseling and transactional legal support in areas of product development, product marketing, privacy, regulatory and compliance matters. The SCM group is responsible for IT management tools and services like Windows 365 and Microsoft Endpoint Manager, and security and compliance products like Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Information Protection.

She also previously led Diversity & Inclusion for Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization. In this role, she led CELA’s efforts to build and sustain a diverse department that reflects the diversity of our global company, the communities in which we work, and the customers that we serve and to take full advantage of that diversity by creating and nurturing a culture of inclusion that allows individuals and teams to do their best work.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Jennifer was Legal Director for Dell Computer Corporation in Austin, Texas, where she supported the Dell Services organization.

Prior to joining Dell, Jennifer was a Staff Attorney for IBM in Austin, Texas, where she provided comprehensive legal support for IBM’s Server Group.

Jennifer graduated Cum Laude with Honors in Liberal Arts with a B.A. in Political Science and English from the Ohio State University in 1990. Jennifer received her J.D. Cum Laude from the Ohio State University School of Law in 1994. She has served for more than 13 years on the board of Youth Eastside Services (currently Vice President), a non-profit that provides counseling and support programs for children and young adults who are dealing with drug and alcohol addiction, mental health issues, abuse and other difficult issues. She is also on the Next Generation Advisory Board for the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her 17-year-old daughter (Olivia), her 23-year-old son (Parker) and her husband, Donnie.

She can be reached at Jenivan@microsoft.com.

Judy Jennison

Partner,
Perkins Coie LLP

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Judy Jennison is a partner in Perkins Coie’s Intellectual Property group. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling for technology companies. Judy also spends a significant portion of her time on client relationship management and the evolution of legal practice. Judy has particular experience in the application of copyright law to software. She was lead counsel for the successful search engine defendant in Kelly v. Arriba Soft, a landmark fair use case. She has participated in a number of other leading copyright cases, including Nintendo v. Galoob, Adobe v. Southern Software and MGM v. Grokster. Judy also focuses on trade secret litigation and counseling and is a former chair of the firm’s Trade Secrets Group. In addition to her many years in private practice, Judy spent eight years as an in-house lawyer with Microsoft Corporation, where she led the company’s Copyright and Trade Secret Group, served as associate general counsel for the Microsoft Office business and was responsible for significant aspects of the company’s worldwide antitrust compliance efforts.

Michele Coleman Mayes

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary,
The New York Public Library

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Michele Coleman Mayes is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library (NYPL). Ms. Mayes joined NYPL in August 2012 after serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Allstate Insurance Company since 2007. She served as a Senior Vice President and the General Counsel of Pitney Bowes Inc. from 2003 to 2007 and in several legal capacities at Colgate-Palmolive from 1992 to 2003. In 1982, Ms. Mayes entered the corporate sector as managing attorney of Burroughs Corporation. After Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged, creating Unisys Corporation, she was appointed Staff Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Worldwide Litigation. From 1976 through 1982, she served in the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney in Detroit and Brooklyn, eventually assuming the role of Chief of the Civil Division in Detroit. Ms. Mayes received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Ms. Mayes served on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration under President Obama from 2013-2014. She served as Chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession of the American Bar Association from 2014-2017. Effective in 2015, she was appointed as an Advisor to the ABA Business Law Section, and in that same year, became a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. In August 2016, she was elected to the Board of Directors of Gogo Inc. (NASDAQ: GOGO).

Amy Fliegelman Olli

Executive Vice President & General Counsel,
VMware, Inc.

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Amy Fliegelman Olli is the Executive Vice President & General Counsel for VMware. With more than 20 years of legal experience, Amy leads VMware’s Global Legal team, which includes VMware’s Ethics & Compliance and Global Government Relations organizations, and she champions the company’s commitment to integrity, ethics, compliance and risk management practices.

Prior to joining VMware, Amy served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Avaya. She led the Avaya Law and Global Contracting organization. Prior to Avaya, Amy held a similar position at CA Technologies and spent more than 18 years at IBM.

In 2010, Amy was the winner of Burton’s “Legends in Law” award and was named by the Diversity Journal as a “Woman Worth Watching” in 2011. She was a 2014 winner of the “Aiming High” Award from Legal Momentum, and in 2017, was included in Corporate Counsel’s list of Transformative Leaders in Technology, Media & Telecom and Collaborative Leadership. In 2021, Amy was named to Financial Times “Top 20 General Counsels,” and she was recognized with a “2021 Women, Influence & Power in Law, General Counsel of the Year—In House” award by Corporate Counsel.

Amy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Oswego and a Juris Doctor degree from Western New England School of Law.

Tina Shah Paikeday

Head of Global D&I Advisory Services,
Russell Reynolds Associates

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Tina Shah Paikeday leads the firm’s global D&I Consulting Services as a senior member of the Leadership & Succession Practice. Recent work has included the recruitment of Chief Diversity Officers, the development of inclusive leaders and inclusive culture transformation. Based in San Francisco, she advises public, private and nonprofit clients around the world.

Previous Experience
Tina has more than 20 years of industry experience. She joined Russell Reynolds Associates from the Talent Advisory Board, a boutique research and management consulting firm she founded. As a Managing Director, Tina advised clients on managing a diverse workforce. Earlier, she was a Senior Director at the Corporate Executive Board and was instrumental in building the Corporate Leadership Council Solutions people analytics business. Tina started her career at McKinsey & Company and has worked in sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble and The Clorox Company. Tina was also CEO of zBox Company, a venture-backed, tech-based appliance producer whose product line was later acquired by Whirlpool.

Education & Affiliations
Tina received a BS in commerce, with honors, from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has also completed doctoral-level coursework and is researching mindfulness and executive decision-making. Tina has lectured on organizational behavior, strategy and leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Virginia. She is a Trustee of the IDEA Fund at the University of Virginia, an active supporter of Vision 2025: Diversity and Community at Stanford University and a member of the Academy of Management.

Kenneth Polite, Jr.

Partner,
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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Kenneth A. Polite, a former US Attorney, former chief compliance officer, and an accomplished litigator, has broad experience representing clients in a variety of criminal, civil, and compliance matters. He focuses on counseling executives and corporate management on complex and sensitive issues, and handles internal and government investigations, white collar criminal defense, commercial litigation, appellate advocacy, and corporate compliance and governance, particularly in the energy and healthcare sectors.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Kenneth was vice president and chief compliance officer for Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, where he led the Ethics and Compliance Department, with responsibility for fostering a culture of integrity and compliance with the company’s code of conduct. He also managed compliance controls for regulations promulgated by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and developed and implemented a risk-intelligent compliance model as part of Entergy’s enterprise risk management strategy.

Kenneth served as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, based in New Orleans, from 2013 to 2017. As the chief federal law enforcement officer for Southeast Louisiana, he supervised the work of approximately 55 assistant US attorneys and was responsible for all criminal and civil matters in which the federal government was involved. Those matters included political corruption, gang violence and narcotics distribution, healthcare fraud, human trafficking, civil rights violations, tax evasion, and environmental crimes.

In April 2015, Attorney General Loretta Lynch appointed Kenneth to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) of US Attorneys. The AGAC serves as the voice of the 93 US attorneys across the nation and provides advice and counsel to the US Attorney General and other senior leaders at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on policy, management, and operational issues. In addition, he served as a member of the AGAC Subcommittees on Violent and Organized Crime, White Collar Crime, and Civil Rights, as well as the Smart on Crime Working Group.

Kenneth’s initial DOJ experience came as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a broad range of federal offenses, including organized crime, public corruption, healthcare fraud, and identity theft.

Additionally, Kenneth has extensive experience in white collar criminal defense, first in the New York office of another global firm, and later, as head of the white collar practice of a New Orleans firm. He has managed internal investigations, defended Fortune 500 executives in parallel criminal and administrative proceedings, and represented clients across a variety of sectors, including healthcare and life sciences, technology, energy, and financial services.

A former law clerk at the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Kenneth is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer with extensive experience in federal and state courts. A Smart on Crime advocate, he is also a frequent speaker on criminal justice reform.

Rodney Pratt

Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary,
Converse Inc.

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Rodney C. Pratt is the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Converse Inc. He is responsible for leading and managing the company’s global legal team, strategy, and operations. Pratt also serves on the Converse Executive Leadership Team. In addition to his legal responsibilities, Pratt is charged with administrative oversight and budgetary management of Converse’s global security and brand protection (anti-counterfeiting) functions. Prior to joining Converse, Pratt was an Assistant General Counsel at Nike. In that role, Pratt served as a business and legal advisor to many of Nike’s and its affiliate brands’ (Jordan, Nike Golf, and Hurley) internal business teams on commercial, sales and competition related issues. While at Nike, Pratt also served as the Corporate Secretary of, and operated as the general counsel for, the Nike Foundation. Pratt began his legal career as a corporate, finance, and M&A attorney with a major law firm in Washington, D.C.

Pratt serves and has served on the Boards of Directors of a variety of civic and non-profit organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, the Board of Directors of the George Washington University Law School Alumni Association, and as a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of Boston College Law School’s Rappaport Center for Law & Public Policy. Pratt also serves on the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Next Generation Advisory Board. Pratt previously served as Chairman of Portland, Oregon’s Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Foundation.

In 2016, Pratt received the George Washington University Black Alumni Association IMPACT Award. In 2015, Pratt was recognized by Savoy Magazine as one of the Most Influential Black Lawyers in corporate America. In 2012, Pratt was recognized by the National Bar Association as one of America’s Top 40 Lawyers under 40. Pratt has also been profiled in numerous publications, including Modern Counsel magazine (2017) and Blackenterprise.com (2014). He has also served on numerous panels at various conferences focused on enhancing the personal and professional development of practicing and aspiring lawyers.

Pratt is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and received his law degree from the George Washington University Law School. While in law school, he served as an Executive Officer of the Moot Court Board. During law school, Pratt also served as a White House Intern in the Office of the Chief of Staff under the Clinton Administration.

Samuel M. Reeves

Former Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Walmart International,
Walmart, Inc.

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Sam Reeves served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Walmart International, where he and the International Legal team were responsible for the legal affairs of Walmart’s retail operations in 26 countries outside of the United States. Sam was a member of Walmart’s in-house legal team since 2002, when he joined the company as a Senior Division Counsel in the Tort section of the Legal Department’s Litigation Division.

Prior to joining Walmart, Sam clerked for Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Tom Glaze and then practiced law in Bentonville, Arkansas for eleven years. He earned his J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H Bowen School of Law, and bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Tom Robertson

Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel,
Microsoft Corporation

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Robertson leads the Corporate, External & Legal Affairs team that supports the Experiences and Devices Group, which is responsible for Office, Windows, Office 365, Microsoft Surface devices, Skype, Teams and many other products and services. He has led other teams in Seattle, Tokyo and Hong Kong since joining in 1997. Before Microsoft, Robertson was Associate General Counsel in the Office of the United States Trade Representative within the Executive Office of the President, where he was responsible for intellectual property issues and general trade issues with U.S. trading partners in the Asia Pacific region. Before that, Robertson practiced law at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., and London, England, and was a law clerk to the Honorable Albert Bryan, Jr., then Chief Judge in the U.S. Federal Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, Virginia.

Robertson holds both Bachelor of Science and Law degrees from the University of Virginia. He is admitted to practice in Virginia, Washington D.C., and Washington State. He serves on the Boards of Greater Seattle Partners, the Coalition of Services Industries, the National Bureau of Asian Research and Town Hall Seattle. He is a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program.

Dominique Shelton Leipzig

Partner,
Perkins Coie LLP

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Privacy and cybersecurity attorney Dominique Shelton Leipzig co-chairs Perkins Coie’s Ad Tech Privacy & Data Management group. She provides strategic privacy and cyber-preparedness compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on privacy, global data security compliance, data breaches and investigations with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. A former litigator for 22 years, her compliance counseling includes defending companies under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, attorneys general offices and other regulatory and government authorities. Through these actions and related litigations where she provides subject matter leadership, Dominique is able to advise companies on best practices in privacy, cybersecurity, data, mobile, cloud storage, Ad Tech privacy, Internet of Things, cyber preparedness and other areas of regulatory compliance.

Tiffany Smith

Partner,
WilmerHale

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Tiffany J. Smith has over a decade of experience advising and representing broker-dealers and other financial institutions, including financial technology companies, regarding compliance with federal and state securities laws and regulations and the rules of the self-regulatory organizations. Ms. Smith’s practice primarily focuses on three areas: (i) broker-dealer regulatory compliance, (ii) representing clients in connection with enforcement matters and regulatory examinations, and (iii) providing regulatory advice in connection with corporate transactions.

With respect to broker-dealer regulatory compliance, Ms. Smith often advises clients on newly adopted rules and areas of increased regulatory focus, including the rules on market access, securities trading and market activities, short sales, and issuer repurchases. Ms. Smith also has experience advising clients on the regulatory implications of new and emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain) and helping clients navigate the regulatory hurdles associated with these technologies. In addition, she counsels clients on triggers for broker-dealer registration, including those related to offshore activities and those related to the activities of financial technology companies.

Ms. Smith has experience representing clients in connection with regulatory examinations, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) enforcement matters, and the FINRA MC-400 Membership Continuance Process, and conducting internal investigations.

Ms. Smith often serves as regulatory counsel in connection with corporate transactions involving broker-dealers, advises clients through the FINRA new and continuing member application processes, and counsels clients on the triggers for filing a FINRA continuing member application.

At the firm, Ms. Smith has been active on the Diversity Committee, Hiring Committee, Pro Bono and Community Service Committee, and various volunteer-based initiatives. From 2016–2019, she was co-chair of firm’s New York summer associate program.

While in law school, Ms. Smith was a Compliance Audit Specialist for M&T Securities. She audited personnel to ensure compliance with internal, federal and self-regulatory organization rules, and held the following securities licenses: Series 6, 7, 24, 53, 63 and 65. Ms. Smith also interned at the Investment Management Division of the SEC and the Litigation Department at FINRA.

In 2014, Ms. Smith completed the Council of Urban Professionals Executive Leadership Program, a year-long leadership development program comprised of leadership training, coaching and keynote conversations with executives. Ms. Smith is also a member of the Wall Street Blockchain Association, the New York City Bar, the National Bar Association, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and the LGBT Bar Association of New York; and on the Board of the Legal Aid Society.

Allon Stabinsky

Senior Vice President & Chief Deputy General Counsel, Law & Policy Group,
Intel Corporation

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Allon Stabinsky is Senior Vice President and Chief Deputy General Counsel of the Law and Policy Group at Intel Corporation. He leads the Intel Legal Department, a worldwide organization of approximately 500 talented legal professionals, and he reports to Intel’s general counsel, Steve Rodgers. He also serves on Intel’s senior executive team.

Since joining Intel as senior litigation counsel in 2005, Stabinsky has held various leadership roles in the Intel Legal Department. In 2010, he was named director of patent litigation. In 2014, Stabinsky served as deputy general counsel for the Litigation, Licensing and Patents Group (LLP), responsible for leading the groups that handle worldwide patent litigation, the development and maintenance of Intel’s patent portfolio, inbound and outbound patent licensing, patent strategy, antitrust counseling, and legal support of Intel’s participation in industry standards groups. In 2017, Stabinsky was promoted to Corporate Vice President and deputy general counsel of the Solutions Legal Group and Chief Compliance Officer, with additional leadership responsibilities for legal support of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group (TMG) and Sales and Marketing Group (SMG), and ethics & legal compliance. Stabinsky has held his current role since 2018.

Before joining Intel, he practiced at the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP as an intellectual property litigator. Stabinsky holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and earned his law degree from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

Neal Suggs

Vice President & Deputy General Counsel,
Microsoft Corporation

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Neal Suggs is the lead commercial attorney for Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business. Neal works directly with customers, partners and regulators on enterprise cloud services, with a deep focus on data privacy, compliance and ethical uses of Artificial Intelligence. In a cloud-first, mobile-first world, Neal helps to discuss and address cloud compliance issues that are critical for customers of all sizes, particularly in highly-regulated industries and in light of data privacy and protection laws and regulations around the world. In addition to his focus on the cloud, Neal’s contributions and leadership efforts have been instrumental in developing an industry leading Legal & Corporate Affairs team through a variety of diversity efforts, overseeing strategy development, program development for students and with outside counsel, and more.

Aravind Swaminathan

Partner,
Orrick

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As a strategic cybersecurity advisor, Aravind partners with clients to proactively plan for a crisis and develop strategies to improve resiliency, respond efficiently and effectively, protect their business and brand, and defend them in the onslaught of litigation and enforcement actions that follow. He guides organizations from large public company financial institutions to start-up technology companies to critical infrastructure providers through incidents, and develops business- and brand-centric tactics to mitigate and manage risk. He has directed more than 150 cybersecurity incident and data breach investigations, including enterprise-wide network intrusions to cyberattacks with national security implications. With extensive trial, litigation and appellate experience, he also defends his clients when cyber, privacy, and payments issues lead to regulatory investigations by the SEC, DOJ, FTC, and State Attorneys General and other civil litigation, including securities and consumer class action litigation and shareholder derivative suits.

Seth Weissman

Chief Legal Officer,
Marqeta, Inc.

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Seth is an experienced General Counsel and senior executive as well as a certified executive coach. He is currently the Chief Legal Officer at Marqeta (www.marqeta.com) where he leads Marqeta’s Legal, Risk, Compliance and Regulatory functions. Prior to joining Marqeta he was SolarCity’s EVP, General Counsel and Secretary. Seth was responsible for SolarCity’s Legal, Compliance, and Risk functions and led the Company’s 2012 IPO. Seth was also SolarCity’s first VP of HR, building the function as the Company scaled from 200 to 1200 employees.

He is focused on delivering business oriented results while building top performing, diverse teams with high EQ and a commitment to culture. While at SolarCity, Seth’s diverse team led to him being recognized as a “Diversity Champion” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Seth earned his bachelor’s degree in political science at Pennsylvania State University and earned a law degree, with honors, at Boston University School of Law. He lives (and now works) in Pacifica with his family and four pets.

Donna Wilson

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner,
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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Donna Wilson is the CEO and Managing Partner of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Donna’s emphasis on building a diverse and inclusive firm across all levels has garnered Manatt numerous honors from organizations such as Working Mother, The Human Rights Campaign, and Women in Law Empowerment Forum. In addition to these firmwide awards, Donna has been the recipient of several notable recognitions, including the Counsel for Inclusion in Financial Services 2018 Fusion Award and is an active member of the National LGBT Bar Association.

In addition to serving as CEO and Managing Partner, Donna co-leads the firm’s privacy and data security practice. Nationally recognized for her bet-the-company work on behalf of clients facing litigation and government enforcement actions in the consumer financial services and privacy and data security spaces, Donna’s extensive crisis and risk management experience, broad subject matter knowledge and precedent-setting litigation experience makes her highly valued by in-house counsel, the C-level suite and boards in both pre-emptively mitigating risk and navigating challenging exposure.

Donna received her BA from The George Washington University and her JD from the University of Virginia. After law school, she clerked for the late Honorable David R. Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the late Honorable Stanley S. Brotman of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.