Cameron Leax is the Head of Human Capital at ICONIQ and sits on the firm’s Operating and Management Committees.  Prior to her current role, Ms. Leax was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for BlackRock's Human Resources and Finance & Corporate Strategy departments, overseeing business strategy, operations, and the firm’s talent, culture, and people analytics agendas.  She also led HR’s Global Ventures Team, focused on M&A, strategic partnerships, and market expansion.  Her earlier roles included Global Head of Talent Management and lead HR Business Partner for ETF & Index Investments, with prior experience in Corporate Strategy, the Office of the President and COO, and iShares Capital Markets at BlackRock.  Ms. Leax holds dual B.S. degrees with honors in Business Economics and Architecture from Brown University.

Sharon Leslie is the Founding Executive Director of Blue Compass, a national network for Jewish professionals working in secular nonprofits and philanthropy. Blue Compass supports professionals by building peer networks and practical tools to address workplace antisemitism and enable them to thrive in the sector. Sharon writes and speaks on antisemitism in the nonprofit workplace, including in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Before Blue Compass she founded and led several initiatives at the intersection of health, equity, and community building, including the Cancer Rehabilitation Program at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Vaxvolunteers.org, and worked in humanitarian health research at Johns Hopkins. She is a Trustee of American Jewish World Service.

Lauren Leyden is a Partner at Akin Gump. She focuses on labor and pension matters in corporate and special situations transactions and in- and out-of-court restructurings for Akin.

Lauren practices at the nexus of traditional labor and pension law and cutting-edge restructuring and corporate transactions. Particularly in the context of high profile special situations and restructuring transactions and “off the run” corporate matters, she has significant experience with:

• Managing workforce liabilities

• Collective bargaining agreements

• Defined benefit pension plans

• Transfer, hiring or separation of executives and employees

• Layoffs

• Executive and employee agreements

• Anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training and counseling

• Employee communications and crisis management

• Complex HR counseling and investigations