Following Rob's Keynote at TechGC's Fullstack GC Summit in San Francisco, this episode takes a deep dive in how legal leaders can help drive a culture of integrity in their business.  This comes just a few weeks before TechGC's Integrity Summit which is open for both Members and Non-Members can sign up.

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Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.  He worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia.  As a federal prosecutor, Rob ran the Major Crimes unit and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and drug trafficking organizations.   He handled the prosecution of CIA, FBI and other employees of the intelligence community for espionage, including CIA employee Aldrich Ames. He is the recipient of the Justice Department’s John Marshall Award for litigation, and the CIA’s Outstanding Service Medallion.      

In 1999, Rob left the U.S. Attorney’s Office and moved to California to become eBay’s third attorney, handling a wide variety of litigation, IP and regulatory/compliance matters for the company globally.  Rob was promoted to run the company’s North American legal division in 2001, and in 2004 he was promoted to eBay’s executive leadership team as Sr. Vice President of a newly created Trust and Safety department.  As the founder and head of eBay Trust and Safety, Rob was responsible for overseeing all site rules and policies for the eBay global community of over 150 million users, and building the first ecommerce person to person platform trust and safety team.  Rob and his team built eBay’s fraud detection and prevention infrastructure, and his team of over 2000 employees reduced reported fraud and counterfeiting activity on eBay’s 20+ sites by 60% over 4 years. Rob was eBay’s spokesperson for site policies and fraud, and he was interviewed in over 200 television, newspaper, radio, and magazine stories for his pioneering role in combating Internet fraud.  He left eBay in the fall of 2008 to become the General Counsel of LiveOps, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, and moved to Chegg in 2010 as the general counsel and the company’s first lawyer. Rob set up Chegg’s legal department, and as a member of the executive team helped transform the company from a physical textbook rental site to a multi-service digital learning platform. He led the effort to take Chegg public on the NYSE in the fall of 2013, where it enjoys a market cap of over $4 billion.    

Rob joined Airbnb as General Counsel in the spring of 2016, where he grew the legal team from 30 to over 150 legal professionals in 20 offices around the world.  His team led initiatives to promote home sharing and address regulatory issues with local governments and landlords around the world. In 2018, Rob was honored by the Financial Times as one of the Global 25 General Counsel. After serving as General Counsel Rob became the Chief Ethics officer and developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company. His book “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution” is out now. He now serves as an advisor to Airbnb, along with several other internet marketplace startup businesses, including Uber, Upwork, Turo, and Poshmark.

He lives in San Francisco, CA, and spends his spare time playing basketball with his son and watching his daughter’s theatre performances.

Jennifer is the General Counsel of Doximity, the largest community of healthcare professionals in the country.  Previously, she was the Chief Legal Officer of Rodan + Fields, a leading skincare brand, with oversight of the legal and compliance functions,  and the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Castlight Health, a digital health company, leading the legal, deal desk, security and information technology functions. 

In former roles, Chaloemtiarana worked in-house at Levi Strauss & Co., and Netflix, Inc., providing guidance and support for sales and consumer relations practices, financing transactions, securities compliance, and corporate governance activities.  

Chaloemtiarana is a member of the board of OneJustice, a legal-aid nonprofit organization serving underprivileged individuals in the State of California, and is a member of the State Bar of California. She is the recipient of a 2018 Corporate Counsel of the Year award from the San Francisco Business Times.  She has a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-chaloemtiarana/

Victoria Nemiah serves as General Counsel of Mux, a video infrastructure company based in San Francisco, where she also oversees Information Security and IT. Prior to Mux, Victoria served on the legal teams of Udemy and HubSpot, helping both organizations scale from the growth stage through IPO.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vnemiah/

Dive into the mind of Aaron Kornblum, General Counsel of BYJU's learning as we discuss hiring, global remote culture, EdTech, India, and the journey of GC. 

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronko/

About Aaron:

Aaron Kornblum serves as President and Global General Counsel for BYJU’S Learning, a part of the India-based edtech decacorn BYJU’S. Aaron helps BYJU’S deliver live, 1:1 and group instruction in coding, math, art and music on a proprietary online platform. His global legal organization enables a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including sales and marketing functions, privacy & online safety, international operations, employment, compliance, and managing IP + litigation.

Before joining BYJU’S, Aaron served as General Counsel and led legal teams at Improbable Worlds, a London-based virtual worlds startup, and Bungie, Inc., a videogame company headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., responsible for the acclaimed Halo and Destiny AAA franchises.

Previously, Aaron spent 14 years in legal and business roles at Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company. As a Group Program Manager in Xbox, Aaron scaled a multi-disciplinary team from 1 to 55 FTEs responsible for games brand protection and anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting, privacy & online safety, geopolitical and content ratings review, and physical + online confidential information protection, including the Xbox One console launch. As a Senior Attorney in the Legal & Corporate Affairs Division, Aaron led a litigation team that partnered with worldwide government investigators to pursue cybercriminals.

Aaron began his legal career in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s (“JAG”) Corps, serving nearly five years on active duty as a military prosecutor and trial defense counsel at U.S. and NATO airbases in the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia. Following his military service, he joined the Seattle law firm Graham & Dunn PC, concentrating on commercial transactions and litigation.

Originally a native of the Washington, D.C. area, Aaron received a B.A. in Politics from Princeton University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and has held a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditation since 2012.

Today Aaron resides with his family in Greater Seattle. The Puget Sound Business Journal named Aaron to its 40 Under 40 list for 2010, a select group of the region's next generation of business leaders. He has volunteered as a director on various community non-profit boards, including Board President of the Seattle Museum of History & Industry.

You can hear Aaron’s voice at stadiums and sports arenas across Western Washington, including the NFL Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field.