Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Karyn Smith is the EVP and Chief Legal Officer of Avalara. 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.
