Carolyn Herzog is a C-Suite executive with over 25 years of broad technology experience in multinational companies, having worked in the U.S. and overseas. Currently, Carolyn is Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary of Elastic (ESTC), the leading platform for search-powered solutions. For Elastic, Carolyn is responsible globally for all legal, regulatory and public affairs matters for the company and provides strategic counsel to the CEO, Board and leadership team on a broad range of corporate, commercial and regulatory issues. Elastic is a dual headquartered company in The Netherlands and United States and is traded on the NYSE. Prior to Elastic, Carolyn was the EVP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer for Arm Ltd., the world’s leading semiconductor IP company, which was headquartered in the U.K. and owned by SoftBank Group Corp. (SFTBY), a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Tokyo that focuses on investment management.
Before joining Arm, Carolyn was the VP, Deputy GC and CCO at Symantec Corporation (SYMC), the world’s largest cybersecurity company. Prior roles included acting as Head of Legal for EMEA. Carolyn joined Symantec through the acquisition of AXENT Technologies, Inc. (AXNT) where she led the transaction as GC. Prior to her legal career, Carolyn worked at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. Carolyn currently serves on the Board of the Association of Corporate Counsel and has served on the ACC European Board, as an Advisory Board member to IPWatch Systems Corporation and on the Board for the National Cyber Security Alliance. She has been recognized by OnCon Icon Awards as a Top 50 Global Corporate Counsel, the Silicon Valley Business Journal C-Suite Awards, as a Distinguished GC by the Director’s Roundtable and an Attorney That Matters by Ethisphere. Carolyn has been recognized for her leadership in innovation and positive human impact in 2020 by the American Legal Technology Awards. Carolyn has been a thought leader in the legal industry in areas such as AI Ethics, elevating the role of lawyers as business partners, and driving operational excellence within the legal department. Both within the companies that Carolyn has worked and externally, she has been an executive advocate for equality and diversity and inclusion initiatives.