A company’s biggest opportunities and hardest moments often ask the same question: how do we move forward when there is no established playbook?
That has been the through-line of my career. I have worked with companies creating new categories, negotiating first-of-a-kind commercial partnerships, raising and restructuring complex capital, building legal functions from the ground up, and navigating moments when the board, lenders, investors, employees, and commercial partners all needed confidence in the same plan. Throughout, I’ve operated as a trusted deputy: preparing briefings, running cross-functional workstreams, and managing the stakeholder relationships that let senior leaders make hard calls with full information.
At MycoWorks, that meant helping build the legal and commercial architecture for a new biomaterials category — from global luxury and automotive partnerships to tax-exempt bond offerings, structured tax financing, manufacturing scale-up, lender negotiations, and restructuring. At Rebecca Minkoff, it meant serving as first in-house GC and later EVP of Corporate Development for a brand that put technology, ecommerce, and strategic partnerships at the center of its growth strategy.
That same question — how do we move forward without a playbook — now applies to AI. I build with technology without deferring to technology. The companies that will win with AI aren’t the ones moving fastest, but the ones that pair speed with the ability to stop and ask “how do we know that?” before the confident and wrong answer leads to the confident and wrong decision. Supplying that judgment, and building the structures that support and institutionalize it, is what senior legal counsel is for.
Before becoming a general counsel, I trained in M&A, finance, private equity, governance, restructurings, and SEC work at leading law firms and a global investment firm. I’ve worked on high-profile projects for some of the world’s leading public figures.
My best work is with founders, CEOs, boards, and investors operating in whitespace. I thrive in the space where commercial ambition, capital strategy, legal risk, stakeholder trust, and the judgment to use exceptionally powerful, imperfect tools without blindly deferring need to be solved together.
