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Redwood City, California, Us

Leading legal team across all function areas and continuing to build out legal department while actively partnering with the business on new product and features generating several hundred million dollars of revenue. Serving as Corporate Secretary and working on board matters, corporate and securities issues.Provided strategic legal counsel and risk management advice to executive leadership, ensuring alignment with business objectives and legal needs across all stages of company growth, private, recent IPO, public, and during M&A. Increased efficiency across all legal areas including commercial, litigation, product, privacy, and regulatory.Revised process for addressing user generated content issues, IP, copyright, and trademark infringement. Directed legal team handling of customer facing disputes and trust and safety.

Redwood City, California, Us

Built and led legal function for international expansion, privacy, product, regulatory, and compliance.

On demand fractional General Counsel, specializing in product and privacy legal and regulatory compliance guidance to organizations of all sizes. Representative clients range in size from pre-seed startup to public companies and cover wide range of sectors, including AI and machine learning. Providing strategic legal, business, and compliance advice, risk analysis, and due diligence to companies and organizations in all sectors, with an emphasis on issues related to data privacy and emerging tech, including AI, machine learning, and blockchain. Assist companies and organizations with data privacy obligations, including GDPR, CCPA, GLBA, HIPAA, and state data breach. Covers everything from counseling on data collection and use aspects of product design to initial compliance builds, data protection impact assessments and creating cost efficient risk mitigation strategies. Counsel on sector-specific data privacy requirements and risk mitigation strategies, including related to personal health information and HIPAA for multiple healthcare companies, and AML/KYC requirements for fintech startup. Developing and implementing plans to help organizations of all sizes with regulatory engagement, including interacting with regulators, responding to regulatory inquiries, replying to comments, shaping policy.Creating plans for market expansion, domestic and international, including connections to key public and private sector leaders.www.bayregulatorystrategy.com

Pleasanton, California, Us

I led and provided counsel on data privacy and product development to internal teams, including compliance and engineering to identify and analyze risks, incorporate globally relevant regulations and standards, and develop solutions throughout product lifecycle, including data policy issues related to AI ethics and bias. I also provided input and assisted in drafting privacy policies and trainings; drafted customer facing privacy FAQs; developed solutions to contract negotiations.I created global regulatory and policy engagement plans, with a focus on driving and implementing strategy related to data privacy and data governance, cross-border data flows, and AI and machine learning. A large part of my duties included serving as internal expert on data privacy and product-related legislative and regulatory requirements, providing information and analysis for business development and market expansion teams, including cross-functional working groups focused on pperationalizing company commitments to AI ethics guidelines through participation in the EU High Level Expert Group on AI as well as assisting on trainings and testing for bias. This also included drafting comments and engaged with relevant policymakers and regulators on proposed data privacy regulations and legislative changes, including GDPR and CCPA.

Cologny, Geneva, Ch

Advised on global legal and regulatory developments related to data privacy, transfers, and governance across various legal and regulatory regimes and counseled groups consisting of private sector, government, and civil society developing projects and products relying on emerging tech. This included drafting internal privacy and security training, and privacy policy and security communications, for global privacy requirements in the EU (GDPR and Member State), U.S., and Switzerland. Major projects included counseling private sector and research institutions on HIPAA and HITECH Act data sharing issues and developed blockchain and federated data system to address complex health data, including medical and genomic research, and machine generated non-personally identifiable information.I also created and led a working group of companies to identify gaps and generate solutions for implementation and compliance questions, including GDPR and other privacy regulations coverage of emerging technology. Provided feedback into EDPB guidance on blockchain and AI. https://www.weforum.org/focus/the-fourth-industrial-revolution

London, Gb

I worked as a regulatory and policy expert to identify and develop opportunities for new firm business based on proposed changes to regulations and laws and proactively created strategic plans to influence meaningful changes for business growth both for the firm and clients in the marketplace. Multinational companies relied on me to distill complex legal issues into tangible impacts on their business and I bridged gaps between business development, compliance, and public policy teams. I provided analysis and feedback on complex regulatory proposals impacting a diverse range of firm practice areas and regions, highlighting potential business impacts. I also led interaction with senior government officials on regulatory concerns, covering both substance and process, including providing tactics for optimizing global advocacy by identifying and cultivating relationships with key external and internal stakeholders, in both public and private sectors, to promote EY perspectives on public policy matters.

Washington, Dc, Us

At the Chamber, I advised and counseled multinational corporations and governments worldwide on developing and implementing policies and compliance solutions, and advised on formulating responses to regulatory inquiries, with subject-matter expertise related to data privacy and data governance, and trade issues. Specialized in developing legal and regulatory advice for new or unsettled areas of law. I functioned as subject matter expert and advised senior company officials on global data protection trends and provided counsel on meeting compliance and risk management challenges across different business units. I also represented and counseled Fortune 500 U.S. companies during the drafting of GDPR, including providing Parliament and Commission direct redline input and drafting changes. For my regulatory portfolio, I worked closely with numerous U.S. and foreign government officials to instill better regulatory practices, especially increased transparency and stakeholder engagement. Several governments, including Brazil, the UK, and Canada, sought my expertise on their domestic regulatory process reform efforts.

Washington, Dc, Us

As the second rotation as part of Presidential Management Fellow program, I engaged both U.S. and international regulators to facilitate and expand export opportunities for U.S. companies and worked with U.S. companies to establish creative and innovative solutions that ensured compliance with potentially problematic requirements while increasing market access. My specialty was food labeling rules. I served as lead U.S. delegate for food and agriculture issues at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), conducting bilateral and multilateral negotiations with foreign officials. I also served as a U.S. government lead in explaining the U.S. regulatory system to both developed and developing nations as part of efforts to craft efficient and cohesive regulatory cooperation systems.

Washington, D.C., Us

I led teams of Federal travel, transportation, and asset management subject matter experts to draft regulatory changes and worked with private sector companies to provide guidance on compliance with Federal regulations. I developed all required steps of legislative process, including drafting bills, legislative change proposals, strikethroughs, and section by section analysis.