Dave Heiner

Dave enjoyed a 25-year career at Microsoft, where he served as a Vice President and Deputy General Counsel responsible for antitrust, privacy law, telecommunications law, accessibility law, human rights, online safety, and the company’s work with international standard-setting organizations. In recent years, Dave focused on helping Microsoft address the societal implications of data use and artificial intelligence. Dave was a co-founder of the company’s internal AI advisory board and helped the company develop its AI policies relating to fairness, reliability, privacy, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. Dave was also the chief antitrust lawyer for Microsoft from 1994 through 2013, a time when Microsoft was under intense antitrust scrutiny globally.

Dave joined Truveta to pursue the promise of harnessing data to improve healthcare—a mission that can be attained only with careful attention to privacy, equity, and ethics.

Dave chairs the board of Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving access to the justice system for all. He also serves on the board of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, co-chairs the advisory board for Measures for Justice (data for criminal justice), and volunteers with the Seattle Clemency Project and the WAVE Foundation.

Dave earned a Bachelor of Arts in physics from Cornell University and a Law degree from the University of Michigan. He began his career clerking for a federal judge in New York City and practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell before joining Microsoft.