Áine Lyons

Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Global Legal Service, Operations and Privacy,
VMware

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Áine Lyons is a SVP and Deputy General Counsel who leads Global Legal Operations and Privacy at VMware.  She also serves as the Chief of Staff to VMware’s General Counsel. Working with the Legal Team and the business, she drives legal operational excellence through scalable innovation. VMware Legal has 230 team members based in 36 countries globally supporting a $10 billion + business that is enabling customers to accelerate their digital transformation. VMware Legal is a diverse multidisciplinary team of fearless legal innovators who harness the power of their difference to develop solutions that mitigate risk while still pursuing business objectives in an ever-changing global environment. Áine has over 20 years of experience managing legal and cross-functional teams, predominately in fast-moving technology companies.  

A founding member of the Women@VMware POD and a VMinclusion Strategy Council member for five years, Aine helped shape VMware’s DEI strategy. She is an executive sponsor and member of the ESG Council and is passionate about operationalizing ESG to drive greater purpose and impact. She is on the board of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), which she co-founded, and is the CLOC Europe Lead, driving industry change and legal eco-system connection. The Financial Times named Áine the 2019 “Legal Intrapreneur of the Year” for her transformation efforts, and her team has won multiple awards for operational excellence and driving industry change in how legal services are delivered. 

Julie Hines

VP – Innovation and Strategic Business Operations,
Verizon

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As Chief of Staff to the GC and CAO of Verizon, Julie Hines anticipates the needs of the departments allowing him to focus on the top priority issues in the company.  She also serves as the VP of Innovation and Strategic Business Operations, leading the operational teams across Sourcing, Supply Chain, Real Estate, Security, Cybersecurity, Legal and Public Policy to drive operational excellence and effectiveness. 

Prior to her current role, she held various leadership roles within Verizon Media including leading the integration of legacy AOL and Yahoo legal teams to form Verizon Media legal team, leading the spin-off of AOL from Time Warner and creating and managing a streamlined Board of Director process to allow the Board to best fulfill its obligation of governance to execute against the corporate goals.   

Julie joined AOL in 2003 and has served in a wide variety of leadership positions including Vice President, Business Development, Vice President Technical Support and Strategic Initiatives, and Vice President of New Revenue.   

Before joining AOL, Hines worked in many diverse management positions for General Electric and Sears, Roebuck, and Co.  She has an MBA from Northern Illinois University and a BS in Marketing from Bradley University. 

Myron Lloyd

Attorney, Lead Counsel – Global Information Technology,
General Motors

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Myron serves as Lead Counsel, Global Information Technology at General Motors.  In this role, he sits on the leadership team of the Global Chief Information Officer and oversees the IT Legal Department that supports over 7000 GM information technology professionals.  His department drafts and negotiates complex agreements involving software licensing and development, data sharing, and software/platform/infrastructure-as-a-service.  His team is also responsible for advising on information security, open-source and other strategic technology-related matters.  

Prior to his current role, Myron served as General Counsel of GM Middle East Operations (“MEO”) where he led the MEO Legal Team, served as a member of the MEO Executive Team and was responsible for all aspects of the business from a legal perspective.  Before that, Myron was in the role of IP and Business Unit Counsel for General Motors Research & Development where is he was the lead attorney for GM’s Chief Technology Officer. 

Myron devotes a significant amount of time to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession as well as charitable causes including pro-bono law clinics and social action initiatives.  He serves as GM Executive Liaison to the National Urban League and Board Member of the Urban League of Detroit and Southeast Michigan.  As a member of GM’s acclaimed Legal Staff Diversity Engagement Team, Myron works closely with GM’s Legal Staff and Strategic Law Partner firms in advancing diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.  In this role, he also ensures alignment of Legal Staff diversity programs with GM’s corporate diversity programs as a member of GM’s corporate One DEI Team.                

Educational Background: 

Myron earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1998.  In 2003, he earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Wayne State University.  Myron is licensed to practice law in the state of Michigan and is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  He’s also a Certified Information Privacy Technologist with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.