Tony West is Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Uber, where he leads the company’s global Legal, Compliance and Ethics, and Security functions.
With nearly three decades of experience spanning both public and private sectors, Tony was twice-confirmed by the U.S. Senate to senior positions in the U.S. Department of Justice; has been a key driver in Uber’s cultural change, including its efforts to become the industry leader in safety; and has helped the company usher in a new era as a public company. As a result of this work along with his bold corporate transparency initiatives, he was named 2023 General Counsel of the Year by American Lawyer.
Before joining Uber, Tony was General Counsel, Executive Vice President Public Policy & Government Affairs, and Corporate Secretary at PepsiCo, the global leader in convenient food and beverage products.
From 2012 to 2014, Tony served as the 17th Associate Attorney General of the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice’s third-ranking official, where he oversaw the Civil Rights, Antitrust, Tax, Environment and Natural Resources, and Civil Divisions, as well as the Office of Justice Programs, the Office on Violence Against Women, and the Community Oriented Policing Services Office. During that time, Tony secured nearly $37 billion in fines and penalties from financial institutions whose conduct harmed Americans during the 2009 financial crisis.
Prior to that, from 2009 to 2012, Tony was the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division, the DOJ’s largest litigating division. In that role, Tony led the DOJ’s review of the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), advocating strongly and successfully that the department abandon its long-standing defense of the statute because the law was unconstitutional.
In 2014, Attorney General Eric Holder presented him with the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the DOJ’s highest honor.
Earlier in his career, Tony was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California; served as Special Assistant AG at the California Department of Justice; and was a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
Tony graduated with honors from Harvard College, where he served as publisher of the Harvard Political Review, and received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was President of the Stanford Law Review. He currently serves on the BXP Board of Directors and also sits on the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Board of Directors and the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Advisory Council.
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