The Room Where it Happens: Identifying and Engaging the Essential Stakeholders in AI Initiatives

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.

Corporate and law firm leaders call on Gina for high-stakes public relations, crisis planning, and incident response support including high-profile litigation media relations. One of the most widely acknowledged experts on legal marketing and law firm public relations, Gina is a sought-after speaker and media expert. A Fellow with the College of Law Practice Management and the American Bar Foundation Fellow, Gina is listed among the Lawdragon Global 100 Leading Consultants and Strategists to the Legal Profession. She published the 2nd Edition of her book Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, in 2019.

She founded and continues to lead Furia Rubel Communications, the award-winning PR and marketing agency that has become a leading legal marketing and professional service communications boutique. The full-service marketing and public relations shop has been listed among the leading agencies by the National Law Journal, The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, and Philadelphia Business Journal. Under Gina’s direction, Furia Rubel provides strategic planning, marketing, public relations, media training, and content marketing services to a variety of specialized industries.

Gina’s legal background complements her unparalleled intuition as a client advocate and business diplomat, allowing her to partner with professional clients to achieve their objectives. She and the Furia Rubel team are always focused on the clients’ unique selling proposition, brand, key messages, and target audiences. As a result, Furia Rubel has developed and executed award-winning programs with outstanding ROIs. From industry-recognized marketing campaigns to media coverage, Gina and her team deliver exceptional results. Gina didn’t discover legal communications and marketing — she just repositioned it for a new century.

While actively practicing law, Gina served on a Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee for six years where she conducted legal ethics reviews of other attorneys. Since then, she has become a nationally sought-after speaker and regularly presents to legal, financial, and government professionals, corporations and universities regarding ethics, legal marketing, social media, strategic public relations, crisis communications, and media training.

Samantha is the Chief Privacy Officer at Verisk - Samantha is a seasoned compliance and privacy professional, as well as a skilled leader and project manager who proactively engages operational stakeholders to drive an ethical and compliant tone from the top, while implementing effective policies and controls in a practical, business-sensitive manner.

Samantha is also a passionate human rights advocate, who works through ESG initiatives and served as a board member of ECPAT-USA to bring awareness and resources to related issues, most significantly human trafficking, and particularly trafficking of children.

Jeff Reihl is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the global legal business of LexisNexis. In this capacity, Mr. Reihl is responsible for global technology strategy, bringing together the company’s applications, product platforms and business systems to deliver LexisNexis world-class content to its customers in innovative ways.
As CTO, Mr. Reihl also leverages the company’s cutting- edge technology and deep customer insight to help legal professionals work more effectively and efficiently and achieve better outcomes for their businesses and clients. Prior to his current role, Mr. Reihl led the New Lexis Technology and Operations team, Global Solutions Development, and before that, Editorial & Content Development for LexisNexis. Before joining LexisNexis in 2007, Mr. Reihl held multiple executive leadership roles at Thomson Corporation in both P&L and staff functions, including Chief Information Officer of Thomson Healthcare and Executive Vice President of Thomson Clinical Solutions and Thomson Micromedex.
Prior to that, Mr. Reihl was VP, Product and Systems Development at ProQuest and also served as a Principal Engineer and Software Manager at Hughes Network Systems. Mr. Reihl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Central Michigan University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Ilona Logvinova is Associate General Counsel at McKinsey & Company, within McKinsey Digital, working closely with advanced analytics, AI/ML, cloud strategy and enablement, and digital builds across a range of industries.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Ilona was Senior Counsel at Mastercard, where she worked on ground-up technology builds and tech transactions to leverage the company’s core assets and explore broader partnership opportunities. Prior to Mastercard, Ilona was an Associate at Fried Frank, where she specialized in leveraged finance representing borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured financings.

Ilona has a BA from Columbia University with a joint major in Economics and Philosophy and her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.