Kirsten Daru had a revelation after landing her first general counsel role. She had spent the previous 11 years as chief privacy officer at Electronic Arts, where she was the first privacy lawyer at the company.

She joined in 2008 just as privacy was blowing up, and built its program from the ground up. But even as she had much more on her plate as a GC—contracts, financing deals and partnerships, IP prosecution, patent litigation, employment and antitrust matters—she realized something that never occurred to her in those 11 years at EA. Privacy was still by far the most challenging legal discipline in existence. And now with AI exploding on the scene, it’s even more complicated.

Kirsten Daru, general counsel and chief privacy officer Netgear. Courtesy of DataGrail