Chief Legal Officer; Elastic
Carolyn Herzog is a C-Suite executive with over 25 years of broad technology experience in multinational companies, having worked in the U.S. and overseas. As the former EVP, General Counsel, Company Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer at Arm Ltd., the world's leading semiconductor IP company, Carolyn was responsible globally for all legal, regulatory and public affairs matters for the company and provided strategic counsel to the CEO, Board and leadership team on a broad range of corporate, commercial and regulatory issues, including as Executive Sponsor for Arm's AI Ethics initiative.
Prior to Arm, Carolyn was the VP, CCO and Deputy GC at Symantec Corporation (SYMC), the world's largest cybersecurity company. Prior roles included acting as Head of Legal for EMEA. Carolyn joined Symantec through the acquisition of AXENT Technologies, Inc. (AXNT) where she led the transaction as GC.
Prior to her legal career, Carolyn worked at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. Carolyn currently serves on the Board of the Association of Corporate Counsel and has served as an Advisory Board member to IPWatch Systems Corporation and on the Board for the National Cyber Security Alliance. She has been recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal C-Suite Awards, as a Distinguished GC by the Director's Roundtable and an Attorney That Matters by Ethisphere.
Carolyn and the Arm Legal Department were recognized for their innovation and positive human impact in 2020 by the American Legal Technology Awards. Both within the companies that Carolyn has worked and externally, she has been an executive advocate for equality and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
General Counsel, Google
Halimah DeLaine Prado is General Counsel at Google, leading the company’s global legal team, advising on some of the most complex and important legal issues of the digital age. Prior to that, Halimah was a Vice President of Legal. In this role, she managed the Products and Agreements Legal team, a global legal team responsible for the product and commercial counsel advising of Google’s products, including Ads, Search, Cloud, Hardware, Platforms & Ecosystems, and YouTube. She has been with Google since 2006.
Prior to joining Google, Halimah practiced media law and products liability law at Dechert LLP. She clerked for the Honorable Mary A. McLaughlin of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Halimah obtained her J.D. from Georgetown, and her undergraduate degree from Yale.
Halimah is a member of the boards for the National Urban League, the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity (LCLD), and Joby Aviation. Halimah is also a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.