Karyn is Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel at Twilio. She has worked with high growth companies for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Twilio, Karyn was Deputy General Counsel at Zynga, where she oversaw all corporate matters and led Zynga through its $1B IPO in 2011. Before Zynga, Karyn was a partner in the San Francisco office of Cooley LLP for 10 years, where she represented emerging growth companies from formation through liquidity event, with an emphasis on venture financings, public offerings, M&A transactions and corporate governance. Karyn grew up in the East Bay, and earned her BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and her JD cum laude from Santa Clara University School of Law.