10 OpenAI legal leaders

Experience: Associate General Counsel - AI Research · OpenAI

Associate General Counsel - AI Research at OpenAI since 2025, a role the profile lists at Director level, and Lead Counsel - AI Research at OpenAI since 2024. The profile also lists Partner at Morrison Foerster (2023–2024), Partner at Durie Tangri LLP (2018–2023) and Associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (2015–2018).

Experience: Associate General Counsel, AI · OpenAI

Associate General Counsel, AI at OpenAI since 2022; the profile headline reads Deputy General Counsel at OpenAI. The profile also lists Head of Legal at Loom (2021–2022), Director, Head Product Counsel at Dropbox (2019–2020) and Senior Counsel, Product and Commercial at Dropbox (2015–2019).

Experience: Associate General Counsel · OpenAI

Associate General Counsel at OpenAI since 2025, and former Associate General Counsel, AI Policy & Regulation (2023–2025) and Senior Counsel, AI Policy & Regulation (2023) at OpenAI. He was also Special Counsel, Privacy and Data Security at Baker Botts (2021–2023) and Counsel to the Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (2020–2021).

Experience: Deputy General Counsel & Deputy Corporate Secretary · OpenAI

Deputy General Counsel & Deputy Corporate Secretary at OpenAI since 2025, leading the Corporate & Employment legal teams according to the profile. The profile also lists Deputy General Counsel (2024–2025) and Associate General Counsel, Corporate (2023–2024) at OpenAI, Head of Corporate Legal at OpenSea (2022–2023) and Legal Director, Corporate & Assistant Corporate Secretary at Uber (2021–2022).

Experience: DGC, M&A, Strategic Transactions and Investments · OpenAI

DGC, M&A, Strategic Transactions and Investments at OpenAI since 2025. His other roles include AGC, M&A and Strategic Transactions at OpenAI (2023–2025), Head of Corporate Legal at Canva (2022–2023), Director, M&A, Investments and Strategic Transactions at Uber (2021–2022) and Senior Counsel, M&A and Strategic Transactions at Uber (2019–2021).

Experience: Deputy General Counsel · OpenAI

Deputy General Counsel at OpenAI since 2021, a role the profile lists in the Legal department at President/Vice President level. The profile says Che leads the team that manages legal issues from developing and offering large machine learning models, including GPT, Dall-E and ChatGPT.

Experience: Deputy General Counsel, Advertising & Marketing · OpenAI

Deputy General Counsel, Advertising & Marketing at OpenAI since 2026, a role listed in the Legal department at President/Vice President level. He was Vice President & Associate General Counsel - Advertising, Marketing, & Business Development at Amazon (2023–2026) and Associate General Counsel - Advertising & Business Development at Amazon (2019–2023).

Experience: Deputy General Counsel · OpenAI

Deputy General Counsel at OpenAI since 2024, and former General Counsel at AKASA (2022–2024). At Dropbox he was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel (2020–2022), where the profile says he led the Commercial, Legal Operations, Risk and Compliance, and Intellectual Property teams, and Vice President Legal (2017–2020).

Experience: Head of Privacy and Data Protection EU, Head of OpenAI Ireland, AGC · OpenAI

Head of Privacy and Data Protection EU, Head of OpenAI Ireland, AGC at OpenAI since 2023. Her profile says she was OpenAI's first employee in Ireland and a founding member of its privacy legal team, and helped establish the company's EU HQ in Dublin. She was Chief Privacy Officer and Global Head of Privacy and Data Protection at Stripe (2021–2023).

Experience: Associate General Counsel · OpenAI

Associate General Counsel at OpenAI since 2024. The profile also lists Director, Head of General Litigation at Google (2021–2024), Senior Litigation Counsel at Google (2012–2020), Counsel at O'Melveny & Myers LLP (2005–2011) and Associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP (2001–2005).