Jessica Hately

As Top Hat’s CLO, Jessica Hately oversees mergers and acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions to drive aggressive growth and support business performance.

Prior to joining Top Hat, Hately served as VP of Legal Affairs at GoDaddy. In that role, she helped guide the company’s growth strategy, led worldwide mergers and acquisitions, oversaw corporate compliance, and helped expand the legal team internationally and into new lines of business. Before that, she was Senior Corporate Counsel at LifeLock, where she worked on corporate governance, securities, and mergers and acquisitions.

Hately holds a BA in Art History and English from Williams College and a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles.