Wanji Walcott

Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer,
Pinterest

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Wanji Walcott is the Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer at Pinterest and is responsible for leading Legal, Compliance, Public Affairs & Policy, Philanthropy, ESG and Community Operations.

As an experienced senior executive, Wanji advises the senior leadership and the board of directors and has extensive experience with corporate governance, fintech, technology & innovation, compliance, government relations, investigations, M&A, talent management, and diversity. Prior to joining Pinterest, Wanji served as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer at Discover Financial Services. Wanji also served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel at PayPal and has also held positions at American Express, Lockheed Martin IMS Corporation and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

She is on the board of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Wanji also serves on the Frederick Gunn School board of trustees and on the Women’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ben Adams

Chief Legal Officer,
Western Union

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As Chief Legal Officer, Ben Adams oversees Western Union’s global legal affairs, public policy and regulatory affairs, ethics, and privacy efforts, and offers strategic advice to executive leadership and the Board of Directors. Ben also serves as Chair of the Western Union Foundation, whose mission is to create economic opportunity for youth and people who migrate by empowering them with the education and resources needed to succeed in today’s global economy.

Joining Western Union from PayPal, where he served most recently as Chief Commercial and Intellectual Property Counsel, Ben brings an extensive understanding of the complex legal questions and business challenges often faced by global payments companies. While there he also held the roles of Chief Counsel for Product and Technology and Chief International Counsel. Prior to PayPal, Ben held senior legal positions at Microsoft and Nokia, and began his career in private practice.

Like many among Western Union’s Executive Team, Ben is a global citizen, having lived and worked in diverse countries including India, Finland, Cameroon, and England.

Ben works with business and legal non-profits, currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Western Union Foundation and OneJustice, and also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts degree from The George Washington University.

Craig Beazer

Executive Vice President & General Counsel,
Lincoln Financial Group

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Executive Vice President Craig T. Beazer is the general counsel for Lincoln Financial Group. He oversees all activities for the legal, compliance, government relations and corporate secretary functions of the company, and provides strategic counsel to the CEO, senior management team and board of directors. He reports to Dennis Glass, president and CEO, and sits on the company’s Senior Management committee, which drives the company’s long-term strategy.

Before joining Lincoln, Beazer worked for Cleveland-based KeyBank, where he served as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at major financial services companies, including The Bank of New York Mellon, Bank of America Corp., and General Electric Capital Corporation. He also held a number of private practice roles, beginning his career as an associate with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he served as a member of the Corporate and Capital Markets Group.

Beazer earned his J.D. from New York University and a B.A. from Iona College, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals, where he is also a member of the Securities and Corporate Practices Committees. He is a former member of both The Clearing House Committee on Bank Governance and The Bank Policy Institute, and regularly serves as an expert panelist at high-profile industry meetings and events.

Michael A. Boxer

Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

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Michael joined the company in January 2018 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.

Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Michael spent more than 20 years at Luxottica, a market-leading consumer products, retail and healthcare company, where he held a number of senior business and legal roles and ultimately became Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel. Prior to Luxottica, Michael worked as an attorney with the international law firm of Winston and Strawn, specializing in M&A, corporate finance and capital market transactions, and compliance.

Michael earned his law degree from New York University School of Law and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University.

ADAM DECKINGER

General Counsel & Secretary,
Tyson Foods, Inc.

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Adam serves as General Counsel and Secretary for Tyson Foods.  In this capacity, he leads Tyson’s global Law & Compliance, Government Affairs, Internal Audit Services, Corporate Services and Aviation teams.  His responsibilities include overseeing all legal matters globally, corporate governance, regulatory, federal and state government relations and policy, internal audit, and risk management.  Adam most recently served as Senior Vice President, Head of Law and Compliance at Tyson before promoted to his current role. Adam is a member of Tyson Foods’ enterprise leadership team and reports to President & CEO Donnie King. 

Prior to joining Tyson, he served as an attorney at The Boeing Company and was an attorney with the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.  Adam also clerked for two federal judges — the Hon. Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Hon. Paul C. Huck, Southern District of Florida.   

Before pursuing a career in law and attending law school, he worked as a software engineer at Ciena Corp., a company that pioneered high-speed fiber optic switching.   

Adam holds a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Michigan School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Florida State University.

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.

Seth Krauss

Chief Administrative Officer & Senior Counsel – Endeavor Group Holdings
Chief Administrative & Legal Officer – TKO Group Holdings, Inc. 

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Seth Krauss is the Chief Administrative Officer & Senior Counsel to the Board of Directors and Senior Management of Endeavor Group Holdings, and has served in that position since January 2024.  Prior to this position, Mr. Krauss served as Chief Legal Officer of Endeavor from June 2014 until October 2023, and as Chief Administrative and Legal Officer of Endeavor from October 2023 to December 2023. In his role, he oversees Endeavor’s Legal, IT, Security, Health & Safety, and Facilities operations.  Mr. Krauss is also the Chief Administrative and Legal Officer of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE. TKO is majority owned and controlled by Endeavor. From March 2007 to June 2014, he served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Take Two Interactive Software Inc. (Nasdaq). From March 2004 through March 2007 he served in the Legal and Compliance Division of Morgan Stanley, first as Vice President and Counsel and then as Executive Director and Counsel. From 1995 until joining Morgan Stanley in March 2004, Mr. Krauss served as an Assistant District Attorney and Senior Investigative Counsel in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Krauss currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of the Center for Family Representation and as a member of the board of trustees of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Mr. Krauss graduated with a Bachelor of Arts both in History and in Political Science from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

Hannah Lim-Johnson

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary,
Ball Corporation

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Hannah Lim-Johnson was senior vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary for Meritor, Inc. She joined Meritor in August 2020.

In this position, Lim-Johnson had responsibility for Meritor’s legal affairs, which included oversight of legal activities related to corporate governance, acquisitions and divestitures, litigation, business standards compliance, regulatory compliance and intellectual property. She also managed the global corporate legal and compliance department.

Lim-Johnson was most recently a senior vice president and chief legal officer at Kelly Services, where she was responsible for leading the strategic direction of the Law Department and Global Security functions. She also held senior-level roles at PSEG, the ADT Corporation and TYCO International, and served as deputy attorney general for the Attorney General’s Office in Trenton, New Jersey.

Lim-Johnson holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Rutgers University School of Law, where she served as the Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Review, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Illinois. She also serves as a board member for the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and the Leadership Institute of Women of Color Attorneys.

Linda Lu

Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel – Litigation, Enforcement & Strategy,
TransUnion

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Linda Lu is Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Trans Union.  She and her team are responsible for global litigation, government enforcement, strategy, legal counseling for HR, IP, real estate, and insurance risk management.  Prior to Trans Union, Linda was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Nationwide Insurance Personal Lines, and previously, it’s Chief Litigation Officer.

Linda is currently a Board Member of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation. Linda is past Vice President of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, past President of the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago, and an Alumni Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.  She is also past Vice President of The University of Chicago Board of Governors. Linda is the recipient of NAPABA’s Best Lawyers Under 40 Award, and recognized as a R3-100 by Inside Counsel Magazine. Linda was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of Ohio, received the Transformative Leadership Award from Inside Counsel, awarded the Diversity Leadership Award by NAPABA, and received the Ohio Asian Award.

Linda graduated from the Georgetown Law Center and The University of Chicago, where she was captain and MVP of the tennis team.

JENNIFER NEWSTEAD

Chief Legal Officer,
Meta Platforms, Inc.

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Jennifer G. Newstead is chief legal officer at Meta, formerly Facebook, overseeing all global legal and corporate governance matters on behalf of the company. Prior to joining Meta in 2019, Jennifer served in senior roles in government, most recently as the Senate-confirmed legal adviser of the US Department of State, advising on issues of domestic and international law affecting the conduct of US foreign relations. Previously, she served as general counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and as a principal deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice. In the private sector, Jennifer spent twelve years as a partner in a global law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, advising technology, media, and financial services firms on litigation and regulatory matters. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 and from Yale Law School in 1994. Jennifer clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Laurence Silberman of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. She previously served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Amy Fliegelman Olli

Former Executive Vice President & General Counsel,

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Amy Fliegelman Olli served as the Executive Vice President & General Counsel for VMware. With more than 20 years of legal experience, Amy led VMware’s Global Legal team, which included VMware’s Ethics & Compliance and Global Government Relations organizations, and she championed 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.

Rodney Pratt

Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer,
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.

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Rodney C. Pratt has over 20 years of experience and success leading global retail organizations as a trusted and strategic business executive and legal advisor. Rodney currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., the North America subsidiary of the French multinational conglomerate and world leader in luxury products and services. Rodney oversees the North American business, leads the LVMH North America legal team, and serves on the LVMH North America Executive Leadership Team. In his role, Rodney is responsible for strategic, tactical, and operational execution and oversight on the entire range of legal matters that typically confront a business unit within a major global consumer company. Rodney also supports LVMH Maisons, providing proactive and pragmatic legal counsel regarding worldwide regulatory, corporate, litigation and commercial matters.

Prior to joining LVMH, Rodney spent over 11 years at NIKE, Inc. While at NIKE, Rodney served for over six years as General Counsel of Converse Inc., a wholly owned NIKE subsidiary. In addition to his legal responsibilities, Rodney was a highly valued and respected enterprise leader and served as an inaugural member of NIKE’s externally focused Black Community Commitment Task Force and Co-Founder of the Converse Diversity Network. 

Rodney is Co-Chair of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Advisory Board.  Rodney serves on the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Eye & Ear (MEE), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and home to the world’s largest hearing and vision research center. Rodney is a Co-Founder and Board member of the Boston-based New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF). Rodney is an Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Law where he co-teaches a course on Sports & Social Justice. 

Rodney 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, Rodney served as a White House Intern in the Office of the Chief of Staff under the Clinton Administration.

Rodney proudly serves as a mentor and advisor to attorneys of all practice areas and backgrounds. 

Tom Robertson

Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel,
Microsoft Corporation

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Tom Robertson leads the Corporate, External & Legal Affairs team that supports the Experiences and Devices Group, which is responsible for Office, Windows, M365, Microsoft Surface devices, Teams, and many other products and services. He has led several other teams in Seattle, Tokyo, and Hong Kong since joining Microsoft in 1997. Before Microsoft, Robertson served as Associate General Counsel in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he was responsible for intellectual property issues globally 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 the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association 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.

He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and three daughters.

ANNE ROBINSON

Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer,
IBM

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Anne E. Robinson is IBM’s Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer.

Previously, she was general counsel of Vanguard, and secretary of the Vanguard funds. She was the managing director of the Office of the General Counsel, where she led Global Public Policy, Legal, Compliance, and Investment Stewardship.

Anne has extensive experience counseling boards of directors and senior executive teams on a range of legal, regulatory, and corporate governance matters across global markets. She joined Vanguard in 2016 from Citigroup, where she was managing director and general counsel for its global cards and consumer services business. She also served as managing counsel at American Express, holding a wide range of senior legal positions over her 10-year tenure at the organization. Prior to American Express, Anne served as counsel for Deloitte’s venture capital and global outsourcing organization and started her career in private law practice at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy.

She currently serves as an independent, non-executive director of National Grid plc and is a member of their Remuneration and Safety & Sustainability Committees.

Throughout her career, Anne has remained dedicated to advancing diversity in the legal field, for present and future generations. Her advocacy for underrepresented communities permeates her work as an industry leader. She serves on the boards of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Children’s Rights, and the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. In 2023, Anne was honored as a Legend in Law at the prestigious Burton Awards, recognizing her extraordinary contributions and impact within the legal profession.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hampton University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

MICHAEL TANG

Senior Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer,
Emerson Electric Co.

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Michael Tang is Senior Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of Emerson. In this role, he is responsible for all legal matters and global security pertaining to Emerson, including corporate governance, M&A, compliance, dispute resolution, and corporate and commercial operational matters. He also is a member of Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive, which helps develop and guide the company’s global business strategies.

Tang has more than two decades of extensive legal and leadership experience. Prior to joining Emerson in 2023, he held the role of senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Agilent Technologies Inc. Before joining Agilent in 2006, Tang served as an associate specializing in corporate and securities at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Fenwick & West LLP.

Tang received his Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from The Wharton School of Business. He is an active member of the State Bar of California and serves on the Board of Directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Denise Zamore

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary,
agilon health

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Denise Zamore currently serves as agilon health Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Denise is a member of agilon’s executive leadership team with responsibility for global legal, compliance, regulatory affairs, corporate governance, enterprise risk, and corporate transactional activities. Trusted advisor to CEO, CFO and Board of Directors, Denise supports all areas of agilon’s diverse business, serving as a business partner for executives, other team members, and partners organization wide.

Denise joined agilon health from Optum where she previously served as Deputy General Counsel leading a team of attorneys and non-attorney professionals providing support to healthcare provider partners and executives on a broad array of areas including critical strategy development, identification and leveraging of high-profile risks and opportunities, regulatory guidance, mergers and acquisitions, state regulation of risk-bearing entities, compliance with corporate practice of medicine, privacy and employment law.

Prior to Optum, Denise led a team of attorneys and non-attorney litigation professionals at UnitedHealthcare in the coordination and management of legal, regulatory and compliance matters related to all lines of health insurance business where she advised insurance business units on issues related to antitrust, bankruptcy, behavioral health, claims reimbursement, contract disputes, employment, ERISA, Medicare, Medicaid, member privacy and provider disputes. She supported provider network and contract negotiation teams and led projects related to interoperability, budget, legal spend and law firm diversity.

Denise is committed to diversity and in 2012 founded the UnitedHealthcare annual diverse 1L summer internship program. She previously served as Chair of UnitedHealth Group’s Diversity & Inclusion Council and was selected by UHG Chief Legal Officer as a 2013 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow and a 2017-18 UHG Emerging Leader. She continues her commitment to diversity at agilonhealth, serving as the Executive Sponsor to the Pride@agilon LGBTQI+ Employee Resource Group, as well as being actively involved in many other diversity activities at the organization related to mentorship, sponsorship, education and recruiting.

Denise is an active member of her community and serves as a mentor to high school and college students. She serves as a board member of the Connecticut Bar Foundation, a foundation dedicated to promoting equal access to justice; as a board member of the Hartford Promise Scholars program, a nonprofit organization focused on high school and college success for Hartford public school students, and as a board member of the Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. She has received numerous award and distinctions for her commitment to diversity and the practice of law.

Prior to moving in-house, Denise completed a two-year federal clerkship and practiced complex commercial litigation at large multinational law firms. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. in government from Georgetown University.

She resides in Connecticut with her husband and son.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP
Taco Bell
Tapestry, Inc.
The Trade Desk
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Thompson Coburn LLP
Toast
Treliant LLC
Troutman Pepper
Twilio, Inc.
Tyson Foods
Uber Technologies, Inc.
Venerable Holdings, Inc.
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Visa
Visa Inc.
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Wells Fargo
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Worldpay
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