Olga V. Mack

Olga V. Mack is an American entrepreneur, attorney, adjunct professor, author, and speaker. Mack is the founder of the Women Serve on Boards movement, SunLaw, and Notes To My (Legal) Self platform that works for empowering women attorneys. She currently serves as CEO of Parley Pro, a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at CodeX at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
Olga Vitalyevna Kotlyarevskaya was born in Ukraine and grew up in Siberia, Russia. She and her parents immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States, when she was thirteen.
After completing George Washington High School (San Francisco), Olga enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999, where she pursued a bachelor degrees in Economics and Political Science.During her time at the University, Olga became a Robert and Colleen Haas Independent Research Fellow and a Grace Scholar at the San Francisco Foundation. She graduated in 2002 as the Valedictorian of the Political Science Department and with the highest distinction in general scholarship overall.
In 2003, after her graduation, Olga joined the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied for three years. While completing her J.D., Olga became a Martin S. Depper and Estelle D. Depper Scholar.
During her time at law school, Mack worked as Legal Liaison for Yahoo Berkeley Labs for a year.
Mack started her career in 2005 when she joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a Litigation Associate.
In 2009, Mack joined Pacific Art League as a General Counsel. In 2011 Mack left the league to join Visa as an Associate Counsel, where she worked for three years.
In 2014, Mack joined Zoosk Inc. as an Assistant General Counsel, where she worked for a year and then started working for ClearSlide, a SaaS-based Sales Engagement platform, as a General Counsel. Mack left ClearSlide in 2017.
Mack founded Women Serve on Boards in 2014, a movement dedicated to advocating the inclusion of women on corporate boards.She became a lecturer at the University of California, School of Law, in 2015. In 2017, Mack founded Notes To My (Legal) Self, a blog and podcast platform dedicated to the future of law.
In 2018, Mack was appointed by the California Governor Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. as the State of California Commissioner for a year at the California Law Revision Commission. In the same year, Mack joined Quantstamp Inc., a smart contract security protocol as the Vice President of Strategy. Mack was appointed as the CEO and Chairwoman of Parley Pro, a Computer Software firm based in Los Altos, in 2019. In the same year, she also became a Fellow at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
Mack is also a contributing writer and columnist for publications including Bloomberg Law, Newsweek, Breaking Media (the Above the Law), High-Performance Counsel, Venture Beat, Association of Corporate Counsel, and others.
* All [A]Board: Your Journey to Becoming a Corporate Director, Published in 2017
* Fundamentals of Smart Contract Security, Published in 2019
* Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board Seat, Published in 2019
==In the media==
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