Leading the legal and compliance function for Groq, an AI solutions company, built for ultra-fast inference at scale.

Provide strategic advice to legal tech startup building the AI teammate for inhouse legal teams, which provides tools for more efficient intake, triage and resolution of legal issues.

• Executive steering business and product strategy with comprehensive cross-functional oversight for tech startup supporting personalized consumer experiences leveraging conversational and generative AI, with investments by Silverlake, Bond, NEA and Bob Iger.• Offer expert counsel across the full spectrum of legal domains, including product development, corporate governance, intellectual property, transactions, privacy law, trust and safety, employment law, compliance, and dispute resolution.• Identify, formulate, negotiate and execute pivotal strategic technology, talent and IP partnerships.• Manage all legal affairs for Human Ventures Fund, encompassing formation, investment, and compliance.• Instrumental in Series C funding round (April 2022) with $1B valuation; leading due diligence and agreements.• Business affairs lead for cornerstone deals such as Universal Music Group partnership for talent avatars and wearables and with Dapper Labs on digital identity storefront.• Entrusted to expand role to lead and build HR, Recruiting and IT teams, including bringing IT services inhouse to expand scope while reducing costs.• Initiated and lead company-wide diversity and inclusion and culture initiatives.

• Led 40+ member global legal team, overseeing critical legal and public policy issues for digital entertainment business with 20M+ MAUs.• As key executive and strategic advisor, addressed matters ranging from data security, privacy, and intellectual property to antitrust, employment, and unions.• Steered legal oversight for China joint venture with NetEase, including partnership extensions and expansions.• Transformed team from sidelined impediment to proactive and strategic partner.• Consolidated parent and subsidiary company APAC teams, increasing consistency, efficiency and collaboration while reducing costs.• Key lead for strategic deals, including multi-year relationship between Activision Blizzard and Google across Cloud, YouTube, Play, and Ads for games, game hosting infrastructure, and esports broadcasting. • Crisis management expert, spearheading responses to geopolitical issues in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan esports and leading global proactive Covid response.• Sponsored and built Employee Resource Groups and navigated resolution of inherited legal concerns.

• Established, built, and led the legal team for an app, game and content distribution platform in 190+ countries with 1B+ users.• Managed a team of 20+ professionals advising on global product launches and business initiatives, including app product counseling and commercial transactions.• Founded Google Play’s legal team, optimizing resources and support amidst substantial global risks, including consumer protection, trust and safety and antitrust challenges.• Expanded responsibilities to include legal oversight for Google’s charitable work, emerging market products, and an Alphabet information technology incubator.• Global expert in global regulatory investigations and inquiries, litigation and legal removals.• Leader in diversity and professional development initiatives in business and legal teams.

• Pioneering product and commercial lawyer specializing in deals and product launches across music, news, movies, TV, live streaming, subscription, sports, and other content for the entire YouTube product suite.• One of the first music lawyers at Google, instrumental in creating business, product, and legal structure for licensed music on YouTube in professional and user-generated content.• Built innovative legal and business foundations for groundbreaking initiatives, including Music, Live Streaming, Movies and TV rentals and purchases, subscription YouTube (YouTube Red), and YouTube TV. • Executed first-of-its-kind deals to drive YouTube to profitability, such as securing initial music licenses from major music companies, live streaming iconic events (e.g. Olympics and U2), mainstream movies and TV shows for global purchase, establishing and powering Vevo with Universal and Sony, and key partnerships to create content for YouTube Kids.• Led project to amend all content license agreements to enable YouTube’s subscription products.

• Managed intellectual property, antitrust and general commercial litigation.• Counseled on music licensing matters for established media companies and startups.