Mahlet Getachew is Managing Director of Corporate Racial Equity at PolicyLink where she works to ignite new norms in corporate America that value people and our planet just as much as the bottom line. She leads a portfolio of strategic initiatives, including the Corporate Racial Equity Alliance and its groundbreaking new performance standards — the Business Standards for 21st Century Leadership — advancing equity, inclusion, and the best of socially responsible business. As a former corporate lawyer, she comes to PolicyLink with extensive experience advising public and private corporations across various industries as external legal counsel and in-house counsel. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Mahlet was General Counsel, Head of HR and Business Operations at Suki AI, Inc., and previous to that, she was Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary at GoPro, Inc. Mahlet started her career as a corporate attorney at an international law firm, where she represented large and small tech companies on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters in the software, internet, renewable energy, media, education, and semiconductor industries. She also serves on the B Lab Company board of directors and is a member of the B Lab Standards Advisory Council. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Lewis & Clark College and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.