Alyssa Harvey Dawson

Alyssa Harvey Dawson is Chief Legal Officer at HubSpot where she is responsible for overseeing the company’s legal and compliance teams. She has over 20 years of broad-based legal experience overseeing corporate governance, corporate, M&A and commercial transactions, enterprise risk management, compliance, data privacy, intellectual property, regulatory and governmental/public affairs. Alyssa was Gusto, Inc.’s Chief Legal Officer for over two years. While at Gusto, Alyssa was on the executive leadership team and oversaw the company’s legal, compliance and government affairs team, partnering with the business to incorporate forward-thinking legal, risk and compliance strategies with the objective to enable the company to compliantly and innovatively serve the needs of its small business customers and their employees.

Before joining Gusto, Alyssa was General Counsel at Sidewalk Labs, where, among other things, she was responsible for developing the legal team and strategy. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Alyssa held senior legal positions with Harman International, Netflix and Autodesk.

Alyssa received her BA in Journalism from Michigan State University and was a Honors College member. She received her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Board member of AppLovin (NASD: APP) and Make-A-Wish Connecticut. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Quello Center, the Advisory Board of Georgetown Law’s Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity and was a member of the Alumni Board of the Michigan State University Honors College and Aspen Institute’s Tech Executive Leadership Institute.