Alyssa Harvey Dawson is chief legal officer at HubSpot, where she is responsible for overseeing the company’s legal and compliance teams. She has over 25 years of broad-based legal experience overseeing corporate governance, corporate, M&A and commercial transactions, enterprise risk management, compliance, data privacy, intellectual property, regulatory, and governmental/public affairs. Alyssa was Gusto, Inc.’s chief legal officer from August 2020 to November 2022. While at Gusto, Alyssa was on the executive leadership team and oversaw the company’s legal, compliance, and government affairs team.
Before joining Gusto, from June 2017 to July 2020, Alyssa was general counsel at Sidewalk Labs where, among other things, she was responsible for developing the legal team and data privacy strategy. From August 2011 until May 2017, she was vice president of global intellectual property at Harman International Industries, Inc. Prior to Harman, Ms. Harvey Dawson held senior legal positions with Netflix and Autodesk.
Alyssa received her BA, cum laude, in journalism from Michigan State University and was an Honors College member. She received her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a board member of AppLovin (NASD: APP) and Make-A-Wish Connecticut.