When Jan Kang, now the general counsel at AOptix Technologies, founded the Women’s General Counsel Network in November 2009, there were five women around the dinner table. To get them there, Kang made cold calls—not her favorite activity—and participated in what another early member calls a blind date. “It was a lot more successful than most of the blind dates I’ve been on,” Kang says with a laugh.
Today, the group counts 160 members, spanning GCs and high-level counsel at some of the biggest companies in the area and beyond. In February, the group put on an event focused on leading legal departments at disruptive companies, which featured Uber GC Salle Yoo, Pandora GC Delida Costin (who later announced she’d leave the company in July), and former 23andMe GC Ashley Gould in conversation with Michelle Lee, deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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