NXTWORK - Key Persons

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• General Manager and Associate General Counsel, Datacenter Infrastructure and Enterprise Hardware at Microsoft
• Senior Legal Executive

Andrée is a senior legal executive with over 25 years of experience working in government, private practice and as in-house counsel. Andrée's focus has been guiding organizations through the complex legal and business issues facing global technology companies. Andrée's expertise includes the development and protection of intellectual property, complex commercial and technology transactions, business model and product development, information security and compliance, privacy, and renewable energy development - issues critical to companies looking to reinvent their businesses in a disruptive world. Her twenty-year tenure at Microsoft has provided her the opportunity to take on the role of General Counsel for Microsoft's Canadian subsidiary headquartered in Toronto, and to advise senior leadership teams on launching a global enterprise cloud services business. Over the course of her career, Andrée has worked in state government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was in private practice at Perkins Coie. Andrée received her B.A. from New York University and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. Andrée's current role at Microsoft is General Manager and Associate General Counsel for Microsoft's global datacenter and enterprise hardware business, which operates in over 60 regions and is growing. Andrée advises on a broad set of areas including sustainability and renewable energy development, land acquisition and development, commercial leasing, global supply chain governance and development of innovative technologies that will transform how cloud services are delivered to customers. While in Canada, Andrée led the subsidiary's corporate, external and legal affairs department. She oversaw government affairs, philanthropies, and legal services for Microsoft Canada and was an advisor to the head of Microsoft's Product Development Center in Vancouver. As a member of Microsoft Canada's executive team, she provided strategic guidance on government engagement and regulations, global transactions, intellectual property, data privacy and security, and compliance. She also provided substantial contribution to the development of AI ethical standards in Canada. Andrée represented Microsoft Canada as a founding member of the Digital Technology Supercluster; one of five public/private partnerships funded by the Canadian Federal Government through its Innovation Supercluster Initiative. Andrée helped develop the governance structure for the Digital Technology Supercluster and joined the Board of Directors and Governance Committee for its inaugural year. In 2022, Andrée was invited to join OnBoarding Women, a program created by business leaders in the Seattle region focused on increasing the percentage of women on public company boards in Washington.

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• Marketing Leader

Betty Gower is a marketing leader with more than a decade of senior experience in general marketing, strategy, corporate branding, and communications. With a strong understanding of the customer, Betty has succeeded in enduring branding such as the Universal logo and industry leading strategy such as the Kaiser Permanente ACA rollout. With measurable success in reaching the customer, Betty has developed regional, global and multinational campaigns. For implementations, she has sourced and built efficient international teams and functions effectively in three languages. Betty has diverse experience from healthcare and technology to oil and gas, in consumer packaged goods, and in broadcast and digital media. Betty Gower achieves success by deploying data-driven approaches that build focus and collaboration among leadership, business development and sales teams. Betty's background includes work with Fortune 100 companies, private equity, agencies and startups.

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• Founder and CEO, Xapa World
• Technology CEO, Independent Board Member

Christine Heckart is an experienced technology CEO, independent board member, and a thirty-year veteran of the tech industry with a proven track record in creating new markets, innovating new products, driving digital transformation, and growing revenue streams from nothing to billions of dollars. Christine appreciates board service where her digital transformation, SaaS, and market strategy experience will add value as an independent director. Christine is currently the founder and CEO of Xapa World, a venture backed start-up focused bringing joy to life, and making it fun and interesting to learn the critical softskills that help us navigate an increasingly chaotic and stressful world. She was most recently the CEO of Scalyr, Inc., a venture-backed data analytics company. During her tenure the company grew its core ARR by over 100% sequentially, created a new market category, overcame a few significant business challenges, and had a successful exit. Scalyr was purchased by SentinelOne in February 2021 and the combined companies went public in June 2021. Christine's board experience includes public and private boards. From 2011-2018, she served on the Board of Directors of Lam Research, a Fortune 250 semiconductor equipment company, where she sat on the Comp, Audit and Strategy committees. During her tenure, the board oversaw two chairman transitions, two CEO transitions, a successful merger, a failed acquisition attempt, and an exploration of diversification strategies. From 2015-2019, Christine served on the board of 6sense, Inc., a data analytics company where the board oversaw a CEO transition, repositioned the company into a new category, created a new GTM motion, and successfully sold the company. In 2020 she joined the board of Contentful, a digital platform for content delivery, as its first independent director as the company prepares for an IPO in 2021/22. In 2021 she joined the board of SiTime, a semiconductor company that provides MEMS timing. Christine is known and respected for her experience in creating products and new market categories, driving digital transformation, and developing new sources of revenue. Prior to becoming CEO of Scalyr, Christine held executive roles at Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, Juniper Networks, and other top technology brands. As SVP for Cisco's entire product portfolio, Christine was responsible for the global go-to-market strategy for each of the business units.

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• Business Advisor
• General Counsel, WENEW Co - Founder and Co - CEO

Christine is a leading media and entertainment transactional attorney and business advisor. She is general counsel of Wenew, Inc., founded by digital artist Mike Winkelmann (a/k/a Beeple), Guy Oseary, Michael Figge, and Tim Smith to support the Wenew NFT platform on the Ethereum blockchain. As general counsel, Christine provides day-to-day business, legal and operational advice, and is responsible for first-of-a-kind, highly tailored agreements with strategic partners to create new consumer experiences by connecting the worlds of finance, payments, cryptocurrency, and blockchain with iconic digital media, music, art, and brands. Her duties also include oversight of issues pertaining to Wenew's strategic partnerships with TIME, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Endeavor, Wasserman, and others, as well as intellectual property, corporate, governance, board, regulatory, and compliance matters. Prior to Wenew, Christine was a partner at Nolan Heimann LLP where her practice focused on IP licensing and distribution transactions across film, TV, streaming, consumer technology and consumer goods. Prior to Nolan Heimann, Christine held senior business and legal affairs roles at Disney, DreamWorks, Universal, and Fox where she developed specific expertise in entertainment, media, consumer technologies and consumer goods business model and distribution innovations. Christine Lawton a lawyer and business advisor with 25+ years' experience in entertainment and consumer technology, from major motion picture studios to new blockchain and NFT dynamos, Christine develops transactional frameworks that transform consumer entertainment experiences and create global markets.

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• General Counsel at Tessera Therapeutics

Cynthia is a seasoned attorney and leader with a proven track record managing diverse and global teams through hyper-growth and transformation. She is a skilled navigator of complex global legal, compliance, regulatory, information security/data governance and safety matters developed over 30 years identifying, evaluating and mitigating risk in the life sciences industry, including biopharma, hospital systems and managed care organizations. Cynthia is known for her communication and constructive influencing skills and ability to positively develop a culture of ethics and integrity within organizations. As General Counsel and Secretary for Verily Life Sciences Cynthia oversees the global law and government affairs functions. While serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Amgen, Inc., the world's largest biotechnology company, with over 23 billion in revenues, Cynthia set the strategy for Amgen's Global Privacy, Trade and Healthcare Compliance organizations and guided cybersecurity and EH&S efforts. Reporting directly to the CEO and the Corporate Responsibility and Compliance Committee of the board; during her tenure as CCO Cynthia led the negotiations and navigated the company through two Corporate Integrity Agreements with the US government and was asked by the OIG to serve on a panel of experts to develop a guide on how to determine the effectiveness of a compliance program. Before joining Amgen, Cynthia spent seven years as general counsel and building the law and risk management programs of SCAN Health Plan, a California Health Maintenance Organization. While at SCAN she advised the company board of directors and led the company through significant legal and governance challenges including a CEO transition and state government monitorship. Prior to SCAN she served as an associate mergers, acquisition and securities attorney at law firms in California and Atlanta. Cynthia is dedicated to the development of diverse talent and giving back. She serves as Chair of the Amgen Foundation and is the executive sponsor for two Amgen employee resource groups-Amgen Black Employees Network and Women Empowered to be Exceptional. Cynthia is also the executive sponsor for Amgen's early Career Discovery Program. She is a board member for the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Music Center, Vassar College, Wildwood School, and The National Association for Law Placement Foundation. She previously served as board chair of Watts Healthcare Corporation and board member of Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center. Cynthia speaks frequently and has received several awards and recognitions, including being honored with the 2019 ECI Carol R. Marshall Award for Innovation in Corporate Ethics as well as being recognized by BlackDoctor.org as one of the 2019 Top Blacks in Healthcare. Cynthia was named one of 2018's Most Influential Black Lawyers by Savoy Magazine and was honored by the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles with the Corporate Excellence Award in 2018. In addition, Black Enterprise selected Cynthia for inclusion in the 2017 Black Enterprise Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America feature. Cynthia received her JD from George Washington University and her bachelor's degree from Vassar College.

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• Partner
• Co - Founder and Co - CEO
• Co - Founder, Co - CEO

Dominique Shelton Leipzig is a partner in Mayer Brown's Los Angeles office and a member of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. She serves as the lead for the Global Data Innovation as well as Ad Tech Privacy & Data Management practices. She is one of the country's top privacy and data lawyers and her considerable experience helps clients navigate the evolving legal compliance issues related to privacy and data security for their digital data initiatives. With more than 30 years of experience, Dominique provides strategic privacy and cyber-preparedness compliance advice, and defends, counsels and represents companies on privacy, global data security compliance, data breaches and investigations. Her experience includes defending companies under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, attorneys general offices and other regulatory and government authorities. She advises companies on best practices in privacy, cybersecurity, data, mobile, cloud storage, Ad Tech privacy, Internet of Things and other areas of regulatory compliance. Dominique has deep experience advising publicly-traded and privately held companies in technology, healthcare, media, entertainment, e-commerce, financial services and other industries. She leads companies in legal assessments of data security, cyber preparedness and compliance with such regulations as the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), HIPAA, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. She frequently conducts trainings for senior leadership, corporate boards and audit committees regarding risk identification and mitigation in the areas of privacy and cyber. She has trained more than 18,000 professionals on the CCPA and the California Privacy Rights Act. She represented the California Chamber of Commerce in a six-week negotiation with Alastair Mactaggart, his lawyer James Harrison, his consultant former FTC Technologist Ashkan Soltani and Senator Hertzberg regarding the CCPA 2.0-many of the business-friendly terms were obtained through those negotiations. Dominique is the co-founder and co-CEO of NxtWork, a non-profit dedicated to diversifying the C-suite and the boardroom. She was recently appointed to the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence's Risk and Cybersecurity Insights Council and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) board. Her landmark book on the CCPA recently published a new edition, and she pioneered the concept of data as a pre-tangible asset in what she calls "our post-data world." Experience US Privacy Counseling Ad Tech Counseling Advising website and online services operators on privacy and data security issues relating to ad tech (including behavioral tracking, privacy disclosures for tracking and consent). Advising health tech companies on privacy and data security marketing initiatives relating to health data.

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• Attorney
• Founder / President of Round Hill Legal Search, Inc
• Legal Recruiter

Erica Moore-Burton is an attorney and award-winning legal recruiter. She is the Founder/President of Round Hill Legal Search, Inc. and has worked successfully in the Los Angeles legal market since 1999. Round Hill was established in 2015, after she served in executive and leadership roles at some of the nation's largest legal search firms. Ms. Moore-Burton served as the Vice-President of Relativity Legal Solutions, the Executive Director for Special Counsel; one of the nation's largest legal search firms, and the Branch Manager for Robert Half International; a Fortune 500 company. She was born and raised in the United Kingdom, where she obtained her law degree before moving to the United States and embarking upon a professional career. During her time in the United States, she has grown to establish herself as an expert within her field, and has been called upon by many publications and organizations for strategic career advice (Credits include Sales Ladders, Career Builder.com, msnbc.com; CNBC.com, Womensinfo.com, igrad.com, Legal Assistant Today, BIG Law, LAPA Reporter, and the ALA Legal Exchange). In addition, she has been a keynote speaker and appeared on expert panels for many associations:

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• Investor
• Head of Strategy, UTA Ventures

Farhana Pargac has been an investor, dealmaker, and strategist for nearly 20 years. Her current focus is leading the Incubations practice at United Talent Agency, a leading global talent agency headquartered in Beverly Hills. She leverages her expertise and network with the agency's talent roster to develop and launch consumer-facing businesses in a variety of categories and business models. The Ventures portfolio includes Anser supplements, TPH hair care, Siena Naturals hair care, Chamberlain Coffee, Rinna Beauty, and Maison No. 9 wine. Prior to UTA, Farhana built the Global Client Strategy business at CAA, creating new ventures and partnerships for clients including Bad Robot, Marvel Television, Will Packer, Jason Blum, Mattel, and Cumulus Radio. She spent the early part of her career in Real Estate Investment Banking and Private Equity at Lazard after graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

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• PTO - Grade Level Coordinator

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• Vice President and Financial Advisor in Bernstein 's Los Angeles
• Vice President, Bernstein

Jean Huang is a Vice President and Financial Advisor in Bernstein's Los Angeles office. She provides investment planning and management for high-net-worth individuals, families, foundations and endowments, and medium-sized businesses. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Jean was with media and distribution consultant Pride of Cleveland, Inc., where she was responsible for business development and strategy for clients that included the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE). Previously, she was a VP of programming and development for 20th Century Fox Television and, before that, a VP with responsibility for the Los Angeles office of Distraction Formats, a distribution and production company based in Montreal and London. Earlier, Jean was a VP of international sales and distribution at Lions Gate Entertainment. She holds a BA, cum laude, in East Asian history from Harvard University. Jean was formerly a principal and chairman of the board of the Westside Chinese School in Los Angeles and is a graduate of Team Beverly Hills. Jean was also a six year member of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation board and spearheaded their outreach and development with the Beverly Hills business community. She currently sits on the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law Board and is their Treasurer.

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• Director and Senior Counsel Boeing Intellectual Property - Military & Space the Boeing Company

As a Boeing executive, Jennifer serves as intellectual property (IP) counsel for The Boeing Company's military and space programs. She self identifies as a rocket scientist confidante and is an equity champion, both at Boeing and in the community. As a member of Boeing Intellectual Property, she works closely with Boeing's talented engineers in both its Defense, Space and Security (BDS) and Global Services (BGS) business units to strategically license and protect the innovative IP Boeing delivers to commercial and government customers, partners and suppliers throughout the globe. In Boeing's Space, Intelligence & Weapon Systems business, Jennifer provides IP counsel to Boeing's commercial and government satellite programs, including those facilitating Wi-Fi communications, providing GPS location services and those protecting our national security. She also serves as IP counsel for Boeing's space subsidiaries, Spectrolab and Millennium Space Systems. This year, Jennifer also began serving as lead IP counsel for Boeing's Vertical Lift division which provides advanced military rotorcraft supporting vital defense force missions globally, including AH-6 Little Bird, AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook, MH-139A Grey Wolf, V-22 Osprey and Future Vertical Lift. For BGS' Government businesses, Jennifer provides IP counsel to U.S. Army and Special Ops programs, including its subsidiary, Tapestry Solutions; and to its strategic organization, Next Generation Product Support. In 2021, she was assigned to lead a cross-functional team tasked with developing strategic intellectual property solutions for BGS, and selected to provide IP counsel to the company's Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort for the Department of Defense. In August, the National Bar Association's (NBA) Women Lawyers Division recognized Jennifer with its 2023 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award. In 2022, the Law and Global Compliance Department (L&GCD) awarded her its Public Service Award in recognition of her outstanding service in the community and within Boeing. That same year, she received the NBA's inaugural Power 50 Award, which honored her exemplary career and selfless commitment to the legal community. Savoy Magazine featured Jennifer as one of 2022's Most Influential Black Lawyers and the Los Angeles Times B2B awarded Jennifer its 2021 In-House Counsel Leadership Award. At Boeing, Jennifer serves as President of the L&GCD's Council for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, which includes the traditional law department and Boeing's principal ethics, export and compliance organizations. Jennifer also serves on the boards of the El Segundo chapters of Boeing Women in Leadership and the Boeing Black Employees Association, for which she is the executive champion. In addition to passionately practicing law, Jennifer is committed to serving and supporting local community organizations and professional associations. Jennifer currently serves on the boards of the NBA as Intellectual Property Section Chair; the Program for Torture Victims, a human rights organization restoring the health and human dignity of survivors of state-sponsored persecution; the John M. Langston Bar Association; and the NBA's Women Lawyers Division. Jennifer is a past Chair of the NBA's Young Lawyers Division and is a life member of the NBA, California Association of Black Lawyers, Langston Bar Association and Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. She is also a former Fellow in the ABA's Business Law Section and a current Fellow of the American Bar Foundation which is an honorary organization limited to one third of one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Jennifer is an active member and past board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and a member of the California Lawyers Association, including the state's Intellectual Property Law Section. She is also a founding member of the Gathering Spot - LA, a membership club rooted in community and culture; a NxtWork member which is a nonprofit dedicated to diversifying the C-suite and boardroom; and serves on the Leadership Council of Public Counsel, a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice. Jennifer has been honored by the Association of Corporate Counsel Southern California Chapter as a 2023 Diversity Award finalist and as a "Rising Star." The City Club of Los Angeles honored her with the Woman of the City Club Award recognizing her service to the community, professional accomplishments and contributions to the Club. Jennifer was also named one of the Nation's Best "Top 40 Lawyers under 40" by the National Bar Association and IMPACT. In addition, out of those top 40 lawyers, Jennifer was awarded the "Excellence in Innovation" award recognizing her fresh outlook on her company's historical and emerging legal challenges. The Los Angeles Business Journal selected Jennifer as a finalist for its Corporate Counsel of the Year Award. Jennifer graduated Harvard University with cum laude honors in Government and The University of Chicago Law School, where she was taught constitutional law by then professor, Barack Obama. While at Harvard, she was an editor on the campus daily newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, played basketball, served as an officer in student organizations and tried to ignore her proximity to the Los Angeles Lakers' longtime rival. In her spare time, she enjoys fine dining, volunteering, group texting, the record-setting Los Angeles Dodgers, butchering the French language, heckling fans of opposing sports teams, supporting the performing arts, ascending the Peloton leaderboard and pretending she's a golfer.

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• Financial Advisor
• Associate Vice President, Financial Advisor, Portfolio Manager, and Founding Member of the Vantage Group at Morgan Stanley

Jenny Kim an associate vice president, financial advisor, portfolio manager, and founding member of The Vantage Group at Morgan Stanley in Beverly Hills. As a trusted advisor with 15 years in the industry, Jenny provides investment advice and complex trust and estate planning strategies to high-net-worth individuals and families in Los Angeles, New York, and across the country. A vital member of the Group's leadership team, Jenny concentrates on wealth management services for entrepreneurs and business owners, as well as artists and innovators in the real estate, tech, and sports and entertainment industries. After working several years in the mortgage, real estate, and architectural industries, Jenny joined Morgan Stanley in 2010. She cofounded The Vantage Group, which is part of the Global Sports & Entertainment Group at Morgan Stanley. Jenny is passionate about helping women tap into their power and be informed and in control of their financial lives. She has created the Women's Salon Series, which is a women's initiative with the mission to bring education on how to find opportunities, make well-informed, purpose-driven financial decisions, and maintain the discipline necessary to navigate the most challenging of markets. Originally from Queens, New York, Jenny is based in Los Angeles and travels frequently between coasts and around the globe. Jenny is strong supporter of the arts and children's music education. She is a member of several arts organizations and volunteers at the LA Philharmonic.

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• Member of the Board of Trustees of Howard University
• Partner, Perkins Coie

Jill Louis focuses her practice on private equity and corporate representation, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and franchise transactions. Her experience includes advising on over-the-road transportation and project infrastructure matters, as well as the creation and implementation of contract-management processes for public and private companies, based on a process she developed as a leader of in-house legal departments. Jill has both depth and breadth of experience advising multi-location retail and industrial companies. Prior to returning to private practice, she was the general counsel for a large private equity portfolio company with over $1 billion in annual revenue, operating heavy duty parts and service locations in 45 states. She also served as general counsel for a multinational service office franchisor with $600 million in revenue and operating in all 50 U.S. states, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, and Mexico. For over 10 years, she led the transactions group for the retail operating company of a global courier delivery service, leading transactions in North America and Asia and launching their transportation delivery service. Active in both her professional and personal communities, Jill is member of the board of trustees of Howard University. She also serves on the executive committees of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc. (KERA).

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• Co - CEO of Raspberry Realty
• Technology Business Leader

Krista is a technology business leader with 24 years of experience across operations, product and services strategy, quality, marketing and Go-to-Market. She is the Senior Vice President and General Manager leading Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's (HPE's) $10 billion Mainstream Compute business with a team of 200 employees. Krista has a proven track-record of driving results including creating a new category of servers that grew from zero to a multi-billion dollar annual run-rate business. Krista also serves as a Board Member for H3C. H3C is an HPE Joint Venture Company located in China with a market-leading portfolio (#1 in networking and a leader in servers and storage). In addition to her HPE responsibilities, Krista is the Co-CEO of Raspberry Realty, LLC; a multi-million dollar real-estate company. She provides Strategic, Financial and Governance oversight while her Co-CEO runs daily operations.

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• Partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group

Ms. Burson focuses on intellectual property litigation with an emphasis on patent law. She is a registered patent attorney, admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Laura has extensive trial and appellate experience in a variety of technology areas including chemicals, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, computers, and high tech. She also represents clients and argues cases in matters pending before the USPTO, including Inter Partes Review and Reexamination proceedings. Laura is a mentor and thought leader, serving as a Past President of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association (LAIPLA) where she has been an officer/board member for 10 years. She is co-founder of LAIPLA's Women-in-IP Committee. In addition, Laura is also an Executive Committee member of the USC IP Institute and has served the last four years as Chair of its annual Women-in-IP Breakfast Program. She is a frequent speaker on intellectual property issues and the co-author of the American Bar Association's, The Intellectual Property Handbook, 2nd Edition (Patent Chapter). Laura is a founding member of the Los Angeles Chapter of ChIPs. She is also active in pro bono matters and has served as a volunteer prosecutor in criminal jury trials. Laura is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School where she teaches an advanced course on intellectual property litigation.

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• Co - Chair of Sidley 's Greater Los Angeles
• Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

LISA GILFORD is a leading complex civil litigator with a practice focused on class actions, multi-district litigation, products liability matters and large scale commercial disputes. She is lead counsel to clients in a wide variety of industries including automotive, pharmaceutical, communications, oil and gas, aerospace and chemical manufacturing, sports and higher education. Clients turn to Lisa for counsel on their most challenging and significant legal issues. Her advocacy skills have played a pivotal role in shaping the outcome of numerous class actions and aggregate litigation matters nationwide. Lisa's numerous accolades include being named by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of its "Top 100 Lawyers" (2015-2020), "Top Women Lawyers" (2013-2019) and "Top Women Litigators" in California (2013-2018). The Los Angeles Business Journal named her to the "L.A. 500" (2019, 2020), as one of their most influential women attorneys (2018-2020) and among the "Most Influential Minority Lawyers" (2019). The John M. Langston Bar Association of Los Angeles recognized Lisa as a Law Firm Partner Honoree at their 2019 Honoring Excellence in the Legal Profession awards. She was also recognized as the "Consumer Litigation Lawyer of 2018" by the Century City Bar Association and has been included in The Best Lawyers in America (2018-2021). Lisa received the J. Michael Brown Award from DuPont in 2008 for her personal commitment to diversity, recruiting and mentoring in the legal profession. Recently, Lisa was selected to serve a three-year term as an alternate Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Lisa currently serves as the Diversity Committee co-chair of Sidley's Greater Los Angeles offices and is a member of Sidley's CCPA Litigation Task Force, a dedicated group of lawyers focusing specifically on litigation involving the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Lisa previously taught at The Georgetown University Law Center and was a graduate fellow and public service lawyer with Georgetown's Institute for Public Representation. She frequently lectures on California tort, consumer protection and unfair competition claims, successful defense of class actions, best practices for outside counsel, and professional development for women lawyers and other diversity issues. Lisa earned her LL.M. from Georgetown University, her J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and received a B.A. from Furman University.

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• Partner, Reed Smith LLP

Marsha advises clients facing complex financial risk issues in such industries as: entertainment, construction, engineering and design, retail, manufacturing, real estate, energy, airlines, mining, oil and gas, hospitality, time-share, leisure and resort properties, and health care. She is a 30+ year lawyer and equity partner, practicing in the area of commercial restructuring and bankruptcy. Marsha's clients praise her for her practical thinking, strategic advice, and creative solutions. Marsha focuses her national practice on the representation of financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, secured and unsecured lenders, creditors committees, entertainment clients, trustees, manufacturers and investors. Marsha's work includes litigation, enforcement, restructuring, and Chapter 11 reorganization matters, assignments for the benefit of creditors, a broad range of bankruptcy and creditors' rights matters, and the protection of intellectual property rights. She also negotiates and documents loan restructuring transactions, debtor-in-possession financing, asset acquisition agreements, out-of-court restructurings, and workouts. Marsha regularly appears in bankruptcy cases in all California Districts, the District of Delaware, and the Southern District of New York. Marsha has represented clients in cases throughout the country including: PG&E, INNOVA, Toys R Us, Illinois Power Generating Company, Vanguard Natural Resources, Inc., Allied Nevada Gold, Open Road Films, Lularoe, Orion Healthcorp, Millennium Healthcare, Fresh & Easy, KSL Media, Columbia House, Aramid Entertainment, Kodak, City of Stockton, City of San Bernardino, Circuit City, Coach America, Axium International, Blockbuster, Inc., Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video, Empire Land, LLC, and Cameo Homes.

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• Board Member, Entrepreneur & Information Security and Privacy Executive

Mary N. Chaney, Esq., CISSP, CIPP/US has over 30 years of progressive experience within the fields of Information Security, Privacy and Risk Management. She graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio with a B.S.B.A with a S.T.E.M. related focus in Information Systems, graduated Salutatorian and Summa Cum Ladue from Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law and became a licensed attorney in the State of Texas in 1999. Ms. Chaney began her career journey by serving as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Los Angeles. Mary's global experience includes executive level information security and privacy roles with GE Capital (NYSE: GE), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Comcast Corporation (NYSE: CMCSA) and Esperion Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ESPR). At GE Capital, she was the Director of Incident Response where she led a team responsible for supporting over 14,000 GE Capital Americas end-users. At Johnson & Johnson, she was the Director of the Security Operations Center, where she led the 24×7 Global Security Operations Center that monitored over 130,000 employees across 250 businesses. At Comcast Corporation, Mary was a Senior Director of Information Security, in the Global CISO's office, which had oversight responsibilities for both Comcast Cable and NBC Universal for cyber risk management. At Esperion, Mary was the Director of Information Security and Privacy, having direct responsibility for creating and addressing risk in both information security and privacy. Mary's entrepreneur endeavors include starting and running MBS Information Security Consulting, LLC (MBS) and most recently Mary opened the Law Offices of Mary N. Chaney, P.L.L.C, The Cyber Security Law Firm Of Texas, with the specific mission of helping translate and advise, Boards of Directors, CIO's, CISO's and General Counsel's on how to legally protect their company from cyber related risk. Mary serves the overall cybersecurity community in multiple ways. She has served on several advisory boards including Post University; ChickTech; CompTIA© Cybersecurity Advisory Board; The Cyber Law Consortium; and The Cyber Future Foundation. Mary also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati for over a decade. She taught in person and online courses in cybersecurity, assisting with the development of the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Mary is also a member of NxtWork which is a non-profit dedicated to diversifying the C-suite and the boardroom. Currently Mary owns the nonprofit, Minorities in Cybersecurity, Inc. (MiC) and its subsidiary, MiC Talent Solutions, Inc. Both organizations are working together to develop a path to entry for underrepresented groups into the cybersecurity profession and support their growth and advancement throughout their career.

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• Leader in Digital Rights Creation
• Partner, ArentFox Schiff

Michelle co-leads the ArentFox Schiff Media & Entertainment industry team, which advises some of the world's top movie studios, television producers and broadcasters, music services, and a range of multimedia developers and publishers. Michelle is also a thought leader in Digital Rights Creation - the expansion of established and emerging brands in existing and developing mediums such as the metaverse and Web 3.0. She works with CEOs and senior executives - particularly from companies operating in the media and entertainment, consumer products, and software industries - to develop dynamic global brand and content strategies. Michelle is nationally ranked and recognized by numerous organizations for her work with intellectual property owners to establish, expand, and optimize brands and plan for content development, as well as enforce and protect these assets. For IP owners and content creators, Michelle negotiates licensing, distribution, and development agreements and structures guidelines and internal policies to govern the creation and use of IP, social media activity, user-generated content, and personal data. She guides the sale and acquisition of international IP rights, runs IP audits, and builds and manages trademark and copyright portfolios. She protects these IP rights with a robust and international policing and enforcement practice. Regarding digital assets (including NFTs), Michelle's work focuses on counseling clients on digital content, trade secrets, technology, and privacy/data. In these instances, she evaluates and guides internal and external policies and procedures on the use, development, and distribution of content, as well as the collection, use, transfer, maintenance, and protection of privacy and data. Michelle knows how industries are taking advantage of IP owners' rights on multimedia platforms and in the metaverse

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• Chief Marketing Officer of LOLA

Monica Belsito is Chief Marketing Officer of LOLA responsible for building the first brand to cohesively address a woman's lifelong reproductive needs. Prior to LOLA, Monica was Sr. Brand Manager at Dollar Shave Club (DSC) where she developed and launched new sub-brands, categories, and products to execute on DSC's mission of owning the men's bathroom, culminating in DSC's $1B acquisition by Unilever. Monica began her brand management career at Colgate-Palmolive through the Global Management Development Program (GMDP). Following her rotational programs with the Walmart sales team and Global Homecare team, she managed various pieces of the US Oral Care and US Personal Care businesses. Monica holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School (Section J, 2011).

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• the Little Professional P.I.N.K. Book of Success" Monday Smiles Publishing ( 2010 )

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• Microsoft, Senior Corporate Counsel & Regional Legal Lead

Njeri Mutura has worked in several countries where her focus has been acting as a trusted adviser to global organizations, particularly on legal and regulatory issues pertaining to emerging technologies. Having practiced law as in-house counsel as well as a member of law firms in several jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, the Middle East and Africa, Njeri can lend a valuable perspective to any organization or board. She currently leads a team that provides legal counsel to Microsoft Corporation's enterprise business in the West and Midwest Regions of the United States that in aggregate book an annual revenue estimated at 5 billion dollars annually. Njeri's team handles some of the most complex and lucrative transactions in the company and she sits on several leadership teams aimed at driving strategy and executing on impactful projects and priorities for the intricate and intensely competitive Microsoft business. As a notable thought leader, Njeri is a sought-after speaker in the space of law and technology. In addition to spearheading forums where she interacts with leading legal and business minds across the globe on pertinent issues such as cybersecurity, data privacy and protection, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, block chain and the internet of things, Njeri is often invited to such forums as a keynote speaker. She has had the privilege of delivering many presentations with CLE accreditation in several mediums, including those organized by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), California Lawyers Association (CLA), Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC), National Bar Association (NBA), National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) and the International Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). In addition to writing several published articles such as "The role of counsel in an age where data is vital currency", Njeri has trained hundreds of leaders from Fortune 500 companies and serves on boards and committees to lend her expertise on a variety of matters. Njeri is a member of the Ontario Bar and the State Bar of California.

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• Dean
• Dean for Undergraduate Program at Georgetown

Patricia Grant is dean for the Undergraduate Program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Grant is passionate about student success, integrating Jesuit values into undergraduate education, and creating high-impact student experiences. At Georgetown McDonough, she has revamped the undergraduate advising structure in the spirit of cura personalis to bolster the advisor-student relationship; expanded career trek opportunities through the McDonough Career Development Center; laid the groundwork for a young alumni advisory group; launched the Know Before You Go Transition Lab, aimed at successfully transitioning seniors into their alumni status; and contributed to many curricular innovations, including the Entrepreneurship Fellows Program and the First Year Seminar Program. She also was instrumental in creating a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives, including: Smart Start, a corporate partnership with PwC that equips BIPOC students with the tools for academic, personal, and professional success; and Business Undergraduates Invested in Leadership and Development (BUILD), an intensive academic and leadership development opportunity for a diverse group of business students. Grant joined Georgetown McDonough in 2010 and has more than 25 years of experience in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education program administration. She has taught courses for undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of organizational change, case studies in higher education management, research methods, and diversity and inclusion at the University of Pennsylvania, the College of New Jersey, Temple University, and Georgetown. Additionally, she worked in the Office of Executive Education at Penn to develop and launch six master's and doctoral programs in partnership with the Wharton School and Graduate School of Education. Grant has presented on diversity and inclusion, student access and success, and change management at a variety of institutions and conferences including the National Undergraduate Business Symposium (NUBS), the U.S. Department of State, the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She holds an Ed.D. and M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, MBA from Brown University, and an A.B. from Cornell University.

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• Partner and Global Practice Leader, Major, Lindsey & Africa
• Partner in Southern California

PJ Harari is a Partner in Southern California, where she has been since the inception of the Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego offices which she helped launch 19 years ago. In 2007, she became the firm's Co-Global Practice Leader for In-House, as part of the team overseeing the strategic development of the firm's corporate practice on a worldwide basis. Prior to this promotion, from January 2004-2007, she also headed the In-House Practice Group for Southern California, managing a team of eight recruiters and business developers. Today, PJ's practice is nationwide and focuses primarily on conducting senior/compliance and general counsel searches on behalf of emerging market to Fortune 100 corporate law departments across industries. In addition to personally handling all aspects of those searches including conducting candidate assessments, she assists clients with her expertise in compensation and retention strategies.

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• Executive, Strategist
• Meta 's Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for Governance, Risk & Compliance

Renee Forney is a C-suite Executive, strategist and trusted advisor to and Fortune 500 business leaders and senior government officials known for turning critical inflection points into opportunities. As public and private sector environments fluctuate, she appreciates the range of enterprise risk management issues requiring board level attention. She prioritizes a robust approach to digital transformation, multi-cloud strategy, AI, Cybersecurity, and strategic IT investment to achieve corporate goals. Mrs. Forney's ability to address complexity, identify core issues and determine the actions able to yield the most value

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• Senior Attorney
• Intellectual Property Counsel
• Senior Counsel II, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Information Governance, Gilead Sciences, Inc

Sameena Habib is a Senior Attorney and Certified Information Privacy Professional, advising the business on global data privacy and security compliance at Gilead Sciences, Inc. Sameena leads compliance with new privacy and security laws in the Asia Pacific region and globally, including China's new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). She utilizes her 10-year experience in privacy and extensive knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and other global privacy and regulatory laws to serve as a subject matter expert on privacy for all departments of Gilead's pharmaceutical business. Sameena is solution-oriented, collaborative, and a trusted business partner. Sameena previously served as Senior Corporate Counsel & Director for Data Privacy, Security & Intellectual Property at Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC), a Panasonic Corporation company, focused on global in-flight entertainment. As lead privacy attorney, Sameena established and grew a robust legal privacy compliance and counseling program and also provided privacy guidance to Panasonic North America and Panasonic Corporation. She partnered extensively with commercial, marketing, advertising, HR, procurement, IT Security, and other business departments to drive privacy by design and default principles across the company. She drafted digital service agreements and company policies aligned with GDPR, CCPA, the APEC Privacy Framework, and other worldwide data privacy regulations and conducted data privacy trainings for Panasonic business and security departments. Sameena created a privacy champion program, mentored attorneys in data privacy, and led teams to achieve privacy and security compliance across the company. As intellectual property counsel, Sameena, managed patent and trademark portfolios and provided counsel in commercial agreements and M&A involving intellectual property.

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• Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Sara Chenetz assists clients in formulating and implementing practical, and often complex, solutions to business concerns and opportunities for business growth. In and out of court proceedings, she guides clients through restructurings, workouts, and litigation, including helping clients identify investment prospects, recover amounts owed, enhance business relationships, and improve governance and capital structures. Sara has first-chaired multiple trials, arbitrations, and mediations, in addition to serving as a court-appointed Chapter 11 trustee in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Central District of California and District of Nevada. She continues to serve as a mediator in bankruptcy cases in California and elsewhere. Sara regularly counsels financially troubled businesses, their directors, officers and owners, businesses doing business with troubled companies, first and second lien holders, equity holders, buyers of assets, official committees, debtors in possession, trustees, assignees, and others involved in challenging business circumstances. Sara works with businesses and people in a myriad of industries, including entertainment, fintech, senior living, technology, uncrewed vehicles, and wine, to name a few. A senior fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, Sara repeatedly has been ranked by Chambers USA, which highlighted such clients' comments as "Sara is an outstanding lawyer and client manager; she is an excellent active listener, facilitator and solutionist - she always provides practical strategies and solutions that move a matter forward." In 2022, Sara was named both as a Top Bankruptcy Lawyer and a Top 100 Women Lawyer in California by the Daily Journal.

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• Senior Counsel II, Privacy, Cybersecurity & Information Governance, Gilead Sciences, Inc

After a decade of successful litigation, Seema concentrated her practice on in-house risk management, launching and managing legal departments from the ground-up and focusing on company growth opportunities as a leader in joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions. With an affinity for operations, she became a key stakeholder in the streamlining, internalization and oversight of healthcare services; and with her experience across different countries, states and industries, became an effective negotiator and advocate in providing practical business solutions in government, regulatory and corporate matters. As a professional athlete, Seema travelled the world as a national team member and motivational speaker. She has leveraged these skills to provide innovative and tactical legal advice in response to industry, financial and environmental challenges. Seema is a change maker, who quickly pivots to evolving business demands. Seema has served in various capacities for over 25 years on both for-profit and not-for-profit boards in healthcare, sports, education and youth-oriented organizations. She has been an advisor and/or member of Hospital, Governing and Company Boards as well as advocacy and Patient Rights/Bioethics committees. She is the current Chair of the Healthcare Law Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and an active member in over a dozen organizations.

Tia Hopkins is an innovative, business outcome-driven IT and cybersecurity executive with over 20 years of experience as a consultant, strategist, and C-suite advisor. She is a corporate athlete with direct experience in sales, marketing, product, professional services, and service delivery. She designs and informs strategies for high-growth, disruptive cybersecurity startups and advises C-level executives on aligning cybersecurity and technology strategies with

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• President, OWN

Named president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in 2019, Tina Perry oversees all operations and creative areas of the network, reporting to OWN Chairman and CEO Oprah Winfrey. Her leadership is a driving force behind the network's ongoing evolution to become the leading destination for Black audiences. She also oversees OWN's robust digital division including the Watch OWN app, the network's award-winning website Oprah.com, and its growing podcast business. Perry was instrumental in OWN's successful launch into scripted programming with popular drama series Queen Sugar, Cherish the Day, Greenleaf, The Haves and the Have Nots, the Peabody Award-winning David Makes Man, and the upcoming Delilah. She oversees the continuing success of the network's lineup of unscripted hits that includes Iyanla: Fix My Life, Love & Marriage: Huntsville, Black Women OWN the Conversation, Family or Fiancé, Black Love, Put A Ring On It, Behind Every Man, and Ready to Love in addition to the Daytime Emmy-award winning Super Soul Sunday. Perry has spearheaded the development of OWN's first food programming block of cooking shows including Tregaye's Way and Lovely Bites, as well as the first holiday movies on OWN. She has also shepherded the creation of special OWN spotlight programming that tackles important issues affecting Black women today. Oprah's two-night town hall on racism in America simulcast across all of Discovery's networks and platforms reaching over 18 million viewers worldwide. Perry serves on the OWN Board of Directors, The Paley Center for Media's Los Angeles Board of Governors, The Television Academy Foundation's Board of Directors, the Board of Directors of The Friends of the Saban Community Clinic, the Board of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS) and in 2021 was elected to the Board of Directors of Blucora. Perry was named to Ebony magazine's Power 100 list, was honored at the Multichannel News Wonder Woman Awards in 2020, as one of the Cablefax 2020 Most Powerful Women "Wavemakers" in 2020, and received the Women in Cable Telecommunication's LEA Award in 2019.

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• Founder of Freed Law

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• Founder of Freed Law, P.C

Freed advises Hollywood studios and next-gen media companies, emerging growth companies, and fortune 100 companies at the intersection of media, technology and innovation, including structuring and negotiating commercial transactions, technology commercialization, content-software-data licensing, gaming, social media marketing, big data, ad tech, and AI. Current and former clients of Freed's include: Amazon Ring, BitTorrent, FameBit (acquired by Google), Fox, Kin Community ($55.5M in funding), Krux Digital (acquired by Salesforce for $700M), Netflix, Prizma AI (acquired by Gracenote), Sony Pictures, Snapchat, Miramax, Tastemade ($115M in funding), Tinder (owned by Match.com), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone for $750M), Viant Technology. Prior to opening her own practice, Freed was Assistant General Counsel of Digital Networks at Sony Pictures Entertainment where she was Head of Legal for Crackle, Sony's multi-platform ad supported video entertainment network, for six years during the emergence of digital media as an industry, and the development of streaming video across mobile and OTT platforms. Working on the novel business and legal issues surrounding digital media inspired Freed to create the first law school course at Loyola Law School dedicated to digital media, entitled "Digital Media & the Law," which she has taught for the last nine years. Eager to tackle the next wave of novel issues, and stemming from her work with current clients related to big data, ad tech and machine learning, Freed co-created and began co-teaching "Artificial Intelligence & the Law" at Loyola Law School three years ago. Freed has been practicing law for over 15 years, and began her career at Irell & Manella, LLP in the corporate, private equity and intellectual property groups. She frequently speaks at conferences, bar association events, and law schools, and has been quoted and interviewed by various news outlets and industry podcasts. Freed is currently the Co-Chair of TechTainment, a media/tech conference, a former board member of the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC) "Women Who Lead," and former Co-Program Chair of the Entertainment and Intellectual Property Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). Freed received her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, and her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from UCLA. Freed lives and works in Silicon Beach, where she often conducts client meetings via Stand-Up Paddle Board.

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• Executive

Veda T. Woods is an accomplished C-Suite cybersecurity executive with a proven track record of driving diverse, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable business strategies. With over 29 years of combined public and private sector expertise, she has spearheaded transformative initiatives in cybersecurity, data governance, and risk management. As a seasoned leader, Ms. Woods is renowned for harnessing innovative technologies to craft and implement cybersecurity strategies that unify diverse landscapes. Her exceptional ability to harmonize operations and create synergies has benefited organizations operating in highly regulated global industries. Ms. Woods' unparalleled expertise has played a pivotal role in advancing secure, sustainable and transformative solutions across public, private, and NGO sectors, guided by principles of integrity, respect, and trust. Central to Ms. Woods' strategic leadership is her dedication to Board accountability, cybersecurity sustainability and cybersecurity governance; fostering decision-making processes that uphold human rights by design. She is unwavering in her pursuit of systematic and holistic risk oversight and framework strategies, focusing on securing critical infrastructures within sectors accountable for healthcare, finance, law enforcement, defense, and intelligence. In her previous role at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Woods oversaw global risk governance and threat and vulnerability management, ensuring a transparent, consistent, and comprehensive approach to operational risk management. She actively participates in national and international forums, contributing to cyber