As a senior legal executive, Chainey brings extensive leadership experience and a valuable perspective to this year's gathering. During her keynote address, she will share insights from her professional journey and leadership experience with the law firm associates and general counsel gathered for the retreat, contributing to the candid conversations and exchange of perspectives that define the LaddHer Up experience.

Kori S. Carew, Esq. is a seasoned attorney, TEDx and keynote speaker, executive coach, and community builder with 25 years of experience working in and with law firms, including 22 years as a litigator, law firm partner, member of senior management, and C-Suite executive. For more than three decades, she has designed, delivered, and facilitated over 450 trainings, keynotes, and workshops on leadership, organizational culture, authenticity, courage, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), helping organizations and individuals expand perspective, disrupt the status quo, and drive meaningful change.

Known for her incisive voice, unapologetic questioning, and relentless curiosity about human potential, Kori equips leaders to be courageous, culturally fluent, and inclusive, and empowers women and historically marginalized professionals to claim their power, voice, and belonging.

Her multi-national, multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and multi-lingual family background gives her a deep understanding of inclusion, identity, and the human need to belong, which she brings to every aspect of her work.

Kori is a people inclusion strategist, advocate, writer, speaker, coach, and truthteller who combines grace with truth in guiding organizations to bridge differences, strengthen culture, and cultivate leadership excellence. She is also a wife and mother of two curly-haired, spirited daughters who fuel her fierce love of community, belonging, and human potential.

In addition to her organizational work, Kori actively serves as a civic leader and continues to inspire audiences worldwide through her TEDx talk, Just Belonging: Finding the Courage to Interrupt Bias. She successfully completed Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead Certification Training, is a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths® Coach, and an Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Qualified Administrator.

When she’s not equipping leaders to disrupt bias, build inclusive cultures, or unleash their full potential, Kori loves to sing, cook, entertain, dance in hallways, and read—always embracing life with the same energy and curiosity she brings to her work.

For more than a decade, Farayi Chipungu has taught leadership and change at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, with a focus on Adaptive Leadership. She works with senior executives, partners, and public sector leaders to bridge the gap between knowing what needs to change and being able to make it happen.

Before joining the Harvard faculty, Farayi spent more than fifteen years on the front lines of the work she now teaches. She trained and practiced as a corporate lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons and Slaughter and May before spending a decade at McKinsey & Company as a consultant and later a Senior Advisor, leading large-scale transformations across the public, private, and social sectors. That experience, spanning the boardroom, the classroom, and the field, gives her a grounded understanding of what it takes to lead when the answers aren't obvious and change cannot be managed through expertise or authority alone.

Today, Farayi works with organizations around the world to help leaders build adaptive capacity and lead meaningful change. She has taught, coached, and advised more than 5,000 executives, practitioners, and entrepreneurs. Her sessions are engaging, highly interactive, and grounded in the realities of leadership, equipping participants with ideas and tools they can put into practice immediately.

Anna Gressel is a leading legal advisor to boards and senior legal executives on artificial intelligence, known for guiding global businesses through complex, high-impact matters at the intersection of technology, regulation, and litigation.

Anna’s cross-functional practice focuses on counseling companies on AI legal, regulatory, and reputational considerations, including with respect to safety, liability, intellectual property, and consumer protection. Anna translates her technical fluency around emerging technologies into practical guidance that helps clients anticipate product specific risks before they reach the market. She is also known among her clients for building trusted relationships with in-house legal, policy, and technical teams — aligning product design with legal defensibility and long-term strategic goals.

Anna represents companies in internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and litigations concerning AI and other cutting-edge technologies. She also regularly helps corporations to benchmark and mature their AI governance and regulatory structures, particularly as advances in agentic AI and other technologies continue to pose novel legal challenges. Anna’s clients span sectors and include major technology developers, online platforms, asset managers, financial services, and life sciences and pharmaceutical companies.

Megan Belcher is a Global Chief Legal Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, External Affairs Officer, CHRO, and board member with 20+ years of experience leading legal, compliance, governance, and risk management functions at publicly traded, privately held, and family-controlled global companies with over $20B in revenue. Megan has developed extensive expertise in the manufacturing, highly regulated, agriculture, food processing, supply chain, and consumer goods sectors, with a deep focus on governance, corporate communication, leading due diligence and integration for up to $4B in M&A transactions, and crisis management. She has a proven track record of leading global teams on six continents and driving strategic change, stakeholder engagement, and human capital management. Megan’s career spans leadership roles in both legal and operational functions, including corporate governance, labor relations, branding and communication, global security, internal audit, and sustainability with a particular emphasis on brand and enterprise risk management.

Megan currently serves on several boards, including Yakima Chief Hops, a $400M agriculture supply chain company, where she sits on the governance (Vice Chair) and compensation (Chair) committees. She also served on the board of Scoular a 130-year-old, privately held, $10B+ international agribusiness company, and various nonprofits, including The Brownell Talbot Preparatory School, a $10M independent serving over 500 students, where she was former Vice-Chair and remains an active board member. Megan also serves on the Board of DirectWomen, a national non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of women lawyers on corporate boards.

Megan currently serves as the Chief Legal Officer at Kohler Co., a leading American manufacturer and 91st largest private company in the U.S., where she leads a team of 100-plus with a $30M-plus budget and serves in a multi-functional role, leading legal, compliance, government affairs, corporate security, internal audit, and global communications. Prior to Kohler Co. she served as SVP, Chief Legal & External Affairs Officer, Corporate Secretary, with Scoular, a $10B+ global agribusiness company and commodities trading business, where she developed the board into a strategic asset, ensured global impact, and supported growth of the company from $4B to $10B+. She also had executive roles with Husch Blackwell and Conagra Brands.

Megan has a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a B.A. in Political Science with honors from the University of Missouri. She has certifications from Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, and Cornell University and is a Certified Governance Fellow with the NACD. She is a recognized leader in her field and has been honored with several awards, including the Omaha World Herald Inspire Award and the Women, Influence, Power & Law Award. She is an active advocate for women and children, the availability of mental health services, and offers pro bono legal services in the communities where she lives and works. She also serves on various advisory boards for non-profits in her passion areas.

In her personal life, Megan enjoys global travel with her family and has a deep love for the Oregon coast. She is in the process of becoming a certified sommelier and enjoys spending her free time traveling with her children and exploring wine and art experiences.

Shanti Ariker is the Chief Legal Officer at JFrog, where she leads global legal, compliance, and governance strategy for one of the world’s most trusted DevOps platforms. With over 20 years of legal leadership at top tech companies like Salesforce, Twilio, Zendesk, and Autodesk, Shanti is known for scaling high-performing legal teams and aligning counsel with fast-paced innovation.

Beyond the C-suite, Shanti is also a creative writer and memoirist. Her writing explores her personal journey through identity, resilience, and belonging. She regularly shares essays and reflections on Substack and speaks at top law schools including Berkeley, UCSF Law, Stanford, and Harvard.

Cheree McAlpine joined Zoom in 2024 as Chief Legal Officer, bringing more than 25 years of legal experience advising and representing global technology companies.

Throughout her career, Cheree has held a range of senior executive legal leadership roles. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Intercom (Fin), an AI-powered customer solutions company acquired by Salesforce. Before that, she was Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Lumileds. She also served as General Counsel for Avnet Americas and Wyse Technology, where she helped guide the company through its successful sale to Dell.

In addition to her corporate leadership, Cheree is a speaker who has shared her insights on technology, leadership, and the evolving business landscape at prominent global forums, including TEDx, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations.

Cheree’s leadership and impact have earned significant recognition. In 2024, Savoy Magazine named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers in Corporate America. In 2022, she was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the Top 100 Diverse Leaders in Technology.

Krishna Walker is the Port of Portland’s Chief Shared Prosperity and Legal Officer, overseeing the Legal, Procurement, Human Resources, and Shared Prosperity departments. The Shared Prosperity group has oversight of the Port's culture and strategy, focusing on ensuring the organization is inclusive in its operations and community impact. She works to ensure the Port remains a place of opportunity for all Oregonians.

Previously, Krishna served as Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer at CareVet, where she led the legal process for over 200 business acquisitions and supported a tenfold increase in company growth over six years. Her experience includes senior leadership at Rabobank North America and well over a decade as outside general counsel for growing companies, including large nonprofit organizations. Her foundation in public stewardship began in 1995 with an appointment by Governor Evan Bayh to the Ball State University Board of Trustees.

Krishna holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame Law School, a Master of Arts from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science from Ball State University. She and her husband are proud parents and enjoy spending time with their kids as they enter adulthood and establish themselves. A resident of Beaverton since 2021, Krishna values the opportunity to invest her leadership into the future of her home region.

Angela Hilt is executive vice president and chief legal and external affairs officer of The Clorox Company. She also serves as corporate secretary. In this position, Hilt oversees global legal matters including ethics, compliance, and enterprise risk management as well as sustainability, government affairs, strategic regulatory and external affairs. She chairs the company’s Sustainability Executive Committee and co-sponsors the Clorox Information Security Executive Committee, which oversees the company’s information cybersecurity strategy, policies, and practices. She also serves as the executive sponsor of the company’s Parents Employee Resource Group.

Since joining the company in 2005, Hilt has held various positions of increasing responsibility. She previously served as vice president and deputy general counsel, with responsibility for corporate legal matters including mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and corporate finance, as well as for corporate governance and the company’s stockholder engagement program.

Her prior roles included overseeing legal matters and serving on the leadership teams for the company’s International, Specialty and Cleaning businesses. Previously, Hilt practiced corporate law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in San Francisco.

Hilt currently serves on the board of counselors of Equal Justice Works and on the board of directors for NAM (National Association of Manufacturers). She previously served on the board of directors of the Society for Corporate Governance. Hilt holds a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Amber Murray is Managing Director, General Counsel at Jamestown, a privately held real estate investment and management company with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia that focuses on transforming spaces across the United States into innovation hubs and community centers. Current and former Jamestown projects include Ponce City Market in Atlanta, One Times Square in New York, Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, and Chelsea Market in New York.

In her capacity as Managing Director, General Counsel, Amber oversees legal, risk management, and compliance matters for the firm. In addition, Ms. Murray serves as a member of the Jamestown Executive Committee, Premier Fund Investment Committee, U.S. Retail Fund Investment Committee, U.S. Compliance Committee and the Jamestown DEI Committee. Amber joined Jamestown in 2013 as Counsel with a focus on supervising legal matters across the Jamestown portfolio and has served in progressively more senior roles, most recently serving as Deputy General Counsel starting in 2019. Amber was promoted to the General Counsel role in 2023.

In 2015, the Jamestown legal department was named the “Small In House Legal Department of the Year” by The Daily Report in recognition of the department’s work in connection with the development, leasing, and financing of Ponce City Market, which was led by Ms. Murray. In 2025, Amber was named as a “Woman of Influence” honoree by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and as a member of the 2025 class of 50 Women to Watch by the Corporate Counsel Business Journal.

Prior to joining Jamestown, Amber practiced in the capital transactions and real estate group at King & Spalding LLP. Ms. Murray is a frequent speaker at conferences on topics ranging from real estate trends to diversity in the legal profession. Amber received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Arts in Hispanic Language and Cultures from New York University. Ms. Murray attended law school at Georgetown University Law Center.

Over the course of her career, Amber has served as an officer and board member for the Georgia Law Center for the Homeless and the Alumni Association Board of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Amber currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Board of Directors of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, and Board of Directors of the Martin Luther King Sr. Community Resources Collaborative.

Amber is an avid reader, traveler, and yoga practitioner and has combined her passion for yoga and travel by attending yoga retreats in St. Lucia, Aruba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Bali, and Egypt.

As Executive Vice President and General Counsel at F5, Angelique M. Okeke leads the company's global legal strategy and operations. With over 20 years of experience as a business executive and legal advisor, she brings deep expertise in business transformation, crisis management, and digital strategy. Prior to her current role, Angelique served as Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at F5, leading the commercial legal business. Before joining F5, she was Global Vice President & General Counsel at Nike, Inc., where she played a pivotal role in expanding nike.com into more than 30 countries and launching the SNKRS app, driving significant digital revenue growth.

Angelique is a dedicated mentor and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She serves on the Board of the YMCA and the board of Girls, Inc. of the Pacific Northwest, and is a member of the Executive Leadership Council.

She is an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law. Her commitment to the legal profession has been recognized with the Outstanding In-House Counsel Award from the NBA Women's Law Division.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communications from Boston College, a Master of Arts in Public Communication from American University, and a Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law.

Throughout my career, I have been privileged to support other companies with employment solutions as they grow and scale their operations.

Currently, I serve as the Chief Legal Officer of CoAd, a PE-backed PEO and Payroll company. Prior to CoAd, I spent 6 years at Oyster HR, a venture-backed EoR (Employer of Record), building the technical, and legal underpinnings for a high growth technology company. From Seed to Series D at a 1.2+B valuation, from an idea to a global company operating in over 80 countries, I am proud of how the Legal and Compliance teams made Oyster possible, removing boundaries to employing talented individuals worldwide. Through my work with GEIO, Georgian, and other organizations, I helped shape industry best practices and foster alternative global employment models.

Prior to Oyster, I spent 6 years at TriNet, a public PEO (Professional Employer Organization), building scalable and sustainable practices. From procurement systems to claims handling.

I am passionate about legal innovation, distributed teams, and transparency in the workplace.

Paul Adams is a seasoned in-house legal executive with deep expertise in the retail industry and a career spanning both legal and human resources leadership. He currently serves as General Counsel at World Market, where he oversees the full spectrum of legal affairs and acts as a strategic advisor to the executive team. Prior to joining World Market, he spent nearly two decades at Gap Inc., ultimately serving as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In that role, he led multiple legal functions including employment, labor, corporate governance, commercial contracts, litigation, compliance, real estate, privacy, and intellectual property — partnering closely with business leaders across Gap Inc.’s portfolio of brands.

Paul began his career in Human Resources at Macy’s in New York, a foundation that has shaped his people-centered approach to legal leadership. After earning his law degree, he practiced labor and employment law as an associate at Sheppard Mullin. He then transitioned in-house to Mervyn’s, where he led employment and litigation matters before being promoted to oversee several HR functions — further blending his legal and operational expertise.

Paul received his JD from George Washington University and is BA in history from Dickinson College.

Kate Dugan leads the company’s Legal and Regulatory functions, and serves as the primary legal advisor for Energizer globally and Corporate Secretary to Energizer’s Board of Directors. Since joining Energizer in 2014, Kate has held various leadership roles, including as Energizer’s Associate General Counsel, Commercial, Marketing and Intellectual Property. Previously, Kate was a litigator with Greenberg Traurig in Chicago; Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri; and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in St. Louis.

Kate holds a Juris Doctorate from Saint Louis University and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Kim Yapchai is an experienced C-suite leader with 30 years in Fortune 200 public companies, including Whirlpool, Tenneco, Masco Corporation, and Ford Motor Credit Company. Kim is currently EVP, Chief Administrative and Legal Officer of Teichert, a 137-year-old construction company that holds the oldest California contractor’s license. She is currently a Board Member of DirectWomen, a non-profit focused on increasing the number of female attorneys on corporate boards, where she co-chairs the International Boards Committee. Kim has spent ~10 years working with Boards of Directors and committees during transformational periods for her companies. Her industry experience spans construction, industrials, and automotive, including more than 20 acquisitions valued at over $30 billion and a $7.2 billion sale to private equity. She is adept at navigating dynamic landscapes in a manner that protects shareholders and supports management. She is known for her business acumen, innovation, and ability to advance the company’s strategy. Kim earned her J.D. cum laude from Wayne State University Law School and her BA with honors in Economics from the University of Michigan. Select awards include ALI’s Compliance Dept. of the Year, Compliance Week’s Top Mind, Inside Counsel Magazine’s Visionary Leader, and the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce’s Salute to Excellence.

Samantha Wellington is eBay’s Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary, responsible for oversight of all aspects of eBay's global legal department, including government relations and public policy.

Samantha is passionate about facilitating opportunities for small businesses to grow and thrive, and she brings a distinguished career in legal and business affairs - most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary for TriNet. In this role, Samantha led a team of professionals across legal, compliance, government relations, risk, customer service, sales, operations, product management, engineering, and technology. Her leadership focused on spearheading initiatives that addressed the evolving workplace dynamics for TriNet’s customers and facilitating access to capital for small business owners, while ensuring that the customer was in the center of every decision. Prior to TriNet, she spent 12 years at Oracle, where she held a number of senior legal positions.

Samantha holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Creative Arts and Laws from Wollongong University, as well as a Master of Laws in Communication and Technology Law from the University of New South Wales. She has served as a board member for the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations and BSA, The Software Alliance. She is admitted to practice law in both California, USA, and New South Wales, Australia.

Talar is General Counsel and VP Human Resources for ComplyAuto, a SaaS company serving auto dealerships. I am also VP of ComplyAuto Esquire, a privacy and cybersecurity Saas company serving solo practitioners and small to mid-sized law firms.

Talar is licensed to practice law in California and Utah. She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), Certified Yoga Instructor and Certified Life Coach (The Life Coach School).

Sara is a Legal and Human Resources executive with over 20 years of experience. She is currently the EVP, Chief Legal & HR Officer and Secretary of Ranpak Holdings Corp. She joined Ranpak in August 2021.

Prior to joining Ranpak, Sara was at Whirlpool Corporation for 11 years, most recently as the General Counsel for Whirlpool Corporation’s North America region and global KitchenAid Small Appliances business. Prior to this role, Sara held various other leadership positions at Whirlpool, including Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Counsel for Mergers & Acquisitions.

Sara joined Whirlpool Corporation in 2010 from Sidley Austin LLP where she worked for five years as an associate in the Corporate practice handling public and private M&A, corporate financing, securities, bankruptcy restructuring, and corporate governance matters.

Sara earned her undergraduate degree in Marketing from the Butler University Lacy School of Business and her law degree from Boston College.

Elke Suber is Legal executive with 20+ years of experience at Fortune 20 companies and high-growth, venture-backed SaaS businesses. Elke is Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Community.com, Inc., a leading AI-enabled SMS customer engagement platform. She joined Community.com Inc. in August 2023.

Prior to joining Community.com, Elke was at Meta Platforms, Inc. At Meta, Elke led the global legal team for Meta’s Monetization business (Advertising, Business Messaging and Commerce) during a period of significant transformation, including compliance with a US FTC Consent Order, addressing high-stakes European matters, including landmark EU behavioral advertising legal bases and trans-Atlantic data transfer cases, and transitioning the advertising model to a privacy-resilient, AI-driven advertising and discovery platform.

Elke joined Meta from Microsoft Corporation, where she worked for 15 years and rose from an Attorney to become an Associate General Counsel for several of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar divisions, leading the legal teams for the Microsoft Store, Consumer Sales and Global Partner Solutions.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Slippery Rock University and her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Damier Xandrine is Chief Legal Officer of Tala, a global financial services company. She has more than 20 years’ experience advising both private and public companies focused on technology and financial services. Damier has held senior-level roles with Wells Fargo Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, Marqeta, Inc. and KOHO Financial; advising management teams, VC backed companies and boards on innovative technology, regulatory compliance and risk management. Damier holds both a JD and MBA. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Hastings College of the Law and lives in Northern California.