Thinking about a career in-house? Hear dir ectly from AGCs at Reddit\, Coinbase\, and Ramp about their paths into the role\, what it’s like advising innovative companies\, and lessons learned a long the way. See below for more information on our speakers.
Lisa Ri chards is Associate General Counsel at Reddit\, where she oversees public c ompany reporting and compliance with SEC regulations. Lisa played a key rol e in guiding the company through its IPO and setting up its public company reporting processes. Before joining Reddit\, Lisa was part of the corporate legal team at Coinbase\, contributing to its IPO and handling corporate go vernance\, M&A\, and venture capital matters. Prior to that\, Lisa was an a ssociate at Fenwick & West.
Jen Barrows is Associate General Counsel\ , Corporate at Coinbase\, where she supports the company’s M&A\, venture ca pital and corporate governance program both in the United States and intern ationally. Prior to joining Coinbase\, Jen was a corporate associate at Coo ley in Santa Monica and an M&A and financial regulatory associate at Debevo ise & Plimpton in NYC. As a junior associate\, Jen also completed a 6-month secondment with Morgan Stanley’s bank regulatory and regulatory affairs te ams.
Amy Aixi Zhang is Lead Product Counsel at Ramp\, a high-growth financial technology company transforming corporate spend management. At Ra mp\, Amy advises on complex regulatory\, product\, and marketing issues acr oss payments\, banking\, data privacy\, and emerging technologies. She is c urrently leading projects related to Ramp’s work on stablecoin integrations \, treasury features\, and other financial products. Before joining Ramp\, Amy was Policy Counsel at Paradigm\, where she worked at the intersection o f crypto\, law\, and policy during a critical period of regulatory developm ent. She began her career at Debevoise & Plimpton\, where she represented f inancial institutions on regulatory matters. Amy writes on topics such as p roduct counseling\, privacy law\, and the career path from Big Law to in-ho use. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from New York University.
Christina Cheung is Deputy Chief of Staff to the CEO and Counsel to the President at Circle\, having previously served as Associate General Counsel at Polygon Labs and Associate General Counsel at dydX. Ear lier\, she was an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and a TV presenter. Christina holds a JD/MBA from Penn Law and Wharton\, and graduated valedict orian from the Dual BA Program between Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris with a B.A. in Economics-Statistics and a B.Soc.Sci. in Transatlantic Relations. She has lived in 5 countries across 3 continents\, and studied at 13 different schools.
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