Advisory Board

Who We Are

Our External Advisory Board was established in 2022 to ensure that our solutions are designed and delivered in a way that closely aligns with our clients’ needs. These Board members are among the most sophisticated consumers of legal services in the world, and we are grateful to be able to work with them and learn from their experience. Their diverse voices are a valuable resource as we build our products and services, and to help us ensure we “walk the talk” of building innovative solutions that create a positive client experience.

Iké Adeyemi

General Counsel, Eastman Chemical

Iké Adeyemi is General Counsel of Eastman Chemical. Previously she was Vice President, Corporate Secretary & Associate General Counsel at The Clorox Company. In her role, she had responsibility for legal support of M&A, securities law and corporate finance, as well as corporate governance and the company’s stockholder engagement program. Before Clorox, Iké held positions at BHP, overseeing legal matters for the company’s corporate M&A activities, and worked in the energy / project finance practices at White & Case and Skadden Arps. She was a 2019 fellow at the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. Iké received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow).

Jeremiah Gordon

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, CapitalG LP

Jeremiah is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of CapitalG. In this role, he manages all legal, regulatory and compliance matters for Alphabet’s independent growth fund. Prior to CapitalG, Jeremiah served as senior counsel at Google where he supported Google’s corporate development functions. Jeremiah holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Adam Korn

Chief Information Officer, Sixth Street

Adam Korn is Partner and Chief Information Officer at Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm with over $60 billion in assets under management. Adam leads a team of engineers, representing one of the fastest growing groups in the private capital sector. Sixth Street’s digital engineering team develops tools within the firm’s greenfield, cloud native technology environment to enhance Sixth Street’s strategic investing capabilities and build new enterprise applications supporting the firm’s global business operations.

Adam joined Sixth Street in September 2020 after an 18-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he was previously the global co-head of Securities Division Engineering.

Throughout Adam’s career at Goldman, he was instrumental in building and championing several transformational initiatives during a time of tremendous change for the Securities Division and the industry. He contributed to the development of systematic trading across the business and led the effort to externalize the division’s capabilities to clients through a platform called Marquee. Adam was a member of the Partnership Committee and Firmwide Technology Risk Committee. He was named managing director in 2008 and partner in 2010.

Anna Makanju

Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI, L.L.C.

Anna Makanju is the Vice President of Global Affairs at OpenAI, a leading AI research and deployment company. Ms. Makanju leads the company’s work with policymakers around the world to advance OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits humanity. Previously, she served as a Special Adviser for Europe and Eurasia to then-Vice President Biden and Director for Russia on the National Security Council. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Ms. Makanju practised international law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and in international criminal tribunals in the Hague, as well as clerking on the Third Circuit. She received her B.A. from Western Washington University and holds a J.D. with Pro Bono Distinction from Stanford Law School.

Arek Sycz

Deputy General Counsel, Cascade Asset Management Company

Arek Sycz leads the Transactions Group at Cascade Asset Management Company. Before joining Cascade in 2014, Arek was a senior leader at Amazon, where he managed a team supporting business units on cutting edge projects and led the legal team’s development of creative e-commerce solutions. Before Amazon, Arek was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where he advised clients on M&A, private equity, venture capital, and structured finance transactions.

Rebecca Tabb

Senior Counsel, Sovereign Wealth Fund

Rebecca Tabb is the General Counsel – Funds of the asset management subsidiary of a prominent sovereign wealth fund. She is based in New York. Prior to her current role, Ms. Tabb was the chief compliance officer and legal counsel at Owl Rock Capital, and an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Ms. Tabb also served as an academic fellow at the Stanford Law School, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance. She holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was the Nathan Abbott Scholar, which is awarded to the student with the highest cumulative grade point average at graduation, an M.Sc. from UCL and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Trish Walsh

General Counsel, Stripe

Trish Walsh leads the global legal, compliance and public policy teams for Stripe. She is also responsible for the corporate security function. She joined Stripe in January 2020 from Voya Financial where she served as Chief Legal Officer.

Previously, Trish served as Deputy General Counsel at Cigna and at MassMutual. She was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and worked for the Office of the General Counsel at the SEC. She clerked for two federal judges. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College, a M.P.A. degree from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Yale University. She lives on Cape Cod (with regular visits to New York City) with her partner, Alissa.