Donna is currently Global Senior Counsel for IBM Data and Watson AI with worldwide responsibility for supporting IBM’s AI solutions business. Donna has served on IBM’s AI Ethics Board since its inception three years ago. Donna has also led IBM’s Global Pro Bono Program for the last three years. From 2011 to 2014, Donna spent three years in Dubai on international assignment as Senior Regional Counsel, IBM Middle East, North and West Africa. Donna has over 20 years of experience in advising her senior business clients on legal issues related to intellectual property, privacy, software licensing, services, artificial intelligence in complex technology transactions, as well as more than 20 years of non-profit board service in a variety of leadership, advisory and committee roles. Donna holds a JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University.
Community and Board Involvement
Donna is a member of the Law Board at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and serves on the Joint Committee of Law Firm Partners and Corporate Counsel of The National Judicial College. She is Past President and current member of the Board of Directors of the Arab American Bar Association of Illinois.