On The Cutting Edge: Preparing Your Employees For The Use of AI

Donna is currently Global Senior Counsel for IBM Data and Watson AI with worldwide responsibility for supporting IBM’s AI solutions business. Donna has served on IBM’s AI Ethics Board since its inception three years ago. Donna has also led IBM’s Global Pro Bono Program for the last three years. From 2011 to 2014, Donna spent three years in Dubai on international assignment as Senior Regional Counsel, IBM Middle East, North and West Africa.

Donna has over 20 years of experience in advising her senior business clients on legal issues related to intellectual property, privacy, software licensing, services, artificial intelligence in complex technology transactions, as well as more than 20 years of non-profit board service in a variety of leadership, advisory and committee roles.

Donna holds a JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University.

Jasmin Rinna is a seasoned and experienced in-house lawyer whose career has taken her into the emerging technology and manufacturing space. She is currently Director, Assistant General Counsel and Head of Employee Relations for Relativity Space, Inc., a NewSpace commercial rocket start-up that launched a 3D printed (additive manufactured) space rocket in March 2023. Ms. Rinna oversees employment, litigation and compliance matters for the company while also overseeing the company’s Employee Relations team.

Prior to joining Relativity Space, Ms. Rinna was Senior Employment Counsel for Snap, Inc. Prior to Snap., Inc., Ms. Rinna spent nine years as Senior Counsel for American Honda Motor, Co., Inc. (“Honda”) where she oversaw employment, litigation and helped support a variety of corporate matters. While at Honda, Ms. Rinna also led regional cross-functional projects and supported Honda’s North American Risk Management and Ethics and Compliance functions at an executive level.

Prior to going in-house, Ms. Rinna was trial attorney and litigator for close to a decade, practicing both employment and business litigation/arbitration in California and New York.

Ms. Rinna holds a J.D. (cum laude) from Syracuse University College of Law and an undergraduate degree in Political Science (and Law and Society) from the University of California, San Diego.

Alesya Nasimova is the Director, Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy at Brex and previously was the Senior Director & Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy at Fundbox where she led product counseling, data privacy & protection, and IP. Prior to Fundbox, she was Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel, Global DPO at Bolt where she has built and led the Compliance and Privacy Programs for scalability, sustainability, and international expansion, as well as spearheading the IP incentive program to drive product innovation.
Alesya has served as in house counsel within the fintech industry for over 7 years holding positions such as Deputy General Counsel and Head of Legal and Compliance, having started her career working in the Commercial Real Estate and Investment Funding sector as well as devoting her time to pro bono work representing defendants in Consumer Debt Litigation. Alesya is an Advisory Board Member of the IAPP Privacy Education Board, and active member in the tech community advocating for innovation, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Nicolette Martz is the Director & Head of Privacy at Yelp, advising on dynamic legal issues and pragmatic business solutions. Ms. Martz is best described as a generalist with broad experience in litigation, from complex commercial disputes to international arbitration and transactions, with a focus on technology. Her responsibilities at Yelp include managing litigation matters, often with substantive First Amendment implications, directing Yelp’s GDPR compliance efforts, enforcing Yelp’s intellectual property rights, supporting technology and commercial transactions, and advising on open source. Nicolette started her career at global law firm Allen & Overy LLP in New York, before moving home to California and joining technology transactions boutique Smithline PC. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with highest honors, Ms. Martz served in the Peace Corps before earning her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School. Nicolette is admitted to practice in California and New York.

Catie is a seasoned attorney and business professional with extensive experience leading best-in-practice legal and contracts and commercial management teams in technology-driven companies. For more than two decades, she has enabled global sales organizations to achieve efficiencies throughout all phases of large and small business transactions.

Currently, Catie serves as the global operations executive for UnitedLex client, DXC Technology (DXC), where she guides the day-to-day direction of DXC’s legal department operations and strategy in collaboration with the company’s legal leadership team. She provides senior-level coordination and issue resolution in areas including transactions, litigation, immigration, and legal operations with a focus on using technology and process optimization to deliver high-quality legal services within desired cost targets. She currently oversees more than 170 transactions legal and commercial professionals.

Catie received her B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and her J.D. from Suffolk Law School, and is admitted to practice in New Hampshire. In addition to being an avid speaker, Catie was selected to participate in the Next Women 50 program in 2017 and was named a 2011 national fellow with the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity. She is a member of the International Association of Commercial Contract Management, Association of Corporate Counsel, and American Bar Association.