Event Tag: Alumni in Residence

Joanne is a cannabis and hemp attorney and strategist with more than a decade of experience in licensing, regulatory compliance, corporate transactions, and litigation. She works with regulators, supports state and federal legislation, and helps investors close deals through defensible structures and opinion letters. Her clients include operators, public companies, manufacturers, investors, and social equity applicants. Click to register.

Jennifer Lane is Lead Ethics Counsel at Airbnb and co-chairs Women at Airbnb, shaping enterprise ethics and trust. She led high-stakes FINRA enforcement matters against major broker-dealers, examining C-suite witnesses, parsing complex trading data, and negotiating global resolutions. As an SDNY federal prosecutor, she handled serious white-collar cases and built diversity and diversion initiatives with national influence. Click to register.

Pamela Martinson is a business-focused leader, board member, and counselor with deep experience in finance, corporate governance, risk management, and bank regulation. Formerly a senior partner at Sidley Austin and earlier with Cooley, she advises executives and boards on complex matters, secured financings, reorganizations, and growth through disruption. She is Chief Legal Officer of Visionary Fiber Technologies and serves on multiple financial technology and banking boards.Click to register.

Viroopa Volla is a Senior Associate at Alvarez and Marsal in San Francisco, advising high-stakes restructurings and special situations in the firm’s North American Commercial Restructuring practice. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs, PJT Partners, McKinsey and Company, Walmart, and Star India. Viroopa earned her A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Harvard College, followed by a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School through the joint JD/MBA program. Click to register.

Woodie Dixon is Golden State’s Chief Legal Officer. He leads business and legal affairs across the Warriors, Valkyries, and related entities, overseeing contracts, litigation, real estate, governance, and strategic initiatives. He previously served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Chegg for five years, and earlier as General Counsel at the Pac-12 and the Kansas City Chiefs. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an MS from UMass Amherst, and a BA from Amherst College, and he serves on several sports-law boards. Click to register.

David E. White Jr. served as the 14th Deputy Director of the Peace Corps and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He held senior Biden-Harris roles at the State Department, Presidential Personnel, and the National Security Council, helping coordinate resettlement support for nearly 90,000 Afghan allies. He is a wounded Army cavalry officer and Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient. He graduated from West Point and Harvard Law School cum laude, clerked on the Ninth Circuit, and worked at Wachtell Lipton. Click to register.

Mukang Cho founded Morning Calm Management and serves as CEO and Managing Principal, overseeing strategy, operations, and capital markets. He previously led real estate strategy at Crown Capital, was a Kirkland & Ellis partner, worked at Cravath, and invested at Trifecta. He has closed $100B+ in transactions. Click to register.

Frederick Fogel serves as General Counsel, overseeing Baupost’s legal, compliance and transaction structuring teams, and is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Previously, Fred was the General Counsel at Silver Point Capital, a Connecticut-based investment adviser focused on credit and special situations. From 2002-2004, he was a Managing Director and General Counsel at Ziff Brothers Investments, where he was responsible for all of the firm’s legal affairs. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and General Counsel for a publicly traded information technology services provider. Click to register.

Greta is Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor to the House Judiciary Committee, advising the Ranking Member on complex legal, oversight, and policy issues involving Congress and the executive branch. She previously held senior roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and on House oversight staff and practiced at Cravath and the CFTC on high-stakes enforcement matters. Click to register.

Colin Stretch is Etsy’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, responsible for overseeing Etsy’s legal, policy, and advocacy functions. Colin is also the former General Counsel of Facebook (now Meta), where he worked from 2010-2019. After leaving Facebook, Colin served as Leader-in-Residence at Columbia University Law School’s Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character & Leadership and was an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School. Click to register.

Brandon Lin is Founder and Chief Investment Officer of SMA Capital’s Q+ Technology hedge fund. He has led profitable public and private equity investments from sourcing through exit. His experience spans law, investment banking, and private equity/venture capital roles across Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, and he has served as a board director for numerous companies. Click to register.

Crystal Nix-Hines is a Los Angeles–based partner whose practice centers on class action litigation, internal investigations, data privacy and security, and complex business disputes. She co-chairs her firm’s Crisis Law & Strategy Group, advising leadership teams on high-stakes crisis management and sensitive investigations. She also founded and leads the firm’s Education Practice Group, representing universities in complex litigation and related matters. Click to register.