Carolyn Herzog is a C-Suite executive with over 25 years of broad technology experience in multinational companies, having worked across the United States and other countries. Currently, Herzog is Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary of Elastic (ESTC), the Search AI Company. For Elastic, Herzog is responsible globally for all legal, regulatory, compliance and public affairs matters and provides strategic counsel to the CEO, Board and leadership team on a broad range of corporate, commercial and regulatory issues. Elastic is headquartered in The Netherlands and is traded on the NYSE.
Prior to Elastic, Herzog was the EVP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer for Arm Ltd., the world’s leading semiconductor IP company, which was headquartered in the U.K. and owned by SoftBank Group Corp. (SFTBY), a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Tokyo that focuses on investment management. Before joining Arm, Herzog was the VP, Deputy GC and CCO at Symantec Corporation (SYMC), the world’s largest cybersecurity company. Prior roles included acting as Head of Legal for EMEA, based in the U.K. Herzog joined Symantec through the acquisition of AXENT Technologies, Inc. (AXNT) where she led the transaction as GC. Prior to her legal career, Herzog worked in the Africa Department of The World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Herzog currently serves on the Board of the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Business Software Alliance, and the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley. She has served on the Advisory Board for The ACC Foundation Cybersecurity Summit and on the Host Committee for Ms. JD LaddHerUp, an organization dedicated to General Counsels supporting early career law firm associates in their career development. Herzog previously served on the board of ACC Europe, as an Advisory Board member to IPWatch Systems Corporation and on the Board for the National Cyber Security Alliance.
Herzog has been recognized by OnCon Icon Awards as a Top 50 Global Corporate Counsel, by the Silicon Valley Business Journal C-Suite Awards, as a Distinguished GC by the Director’s Roundtable and as an Attorney That Matters by Ethisphere. Herzog has been recognized for her Leadership in Innovation and Positive Human Impact in 2020 by the American Legal Technology Awards. She has been a thought leader in the legal industry in areas such as AI Ethics, elevating the role of lawyers as business partners, and driving operational excellence within the legal department. Both within the companies where Herzog has worked, and externally, she has been a leading advocate for equality and diversity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.
