Eve Burton JD

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Biography

Ms. Eve Burton is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Vice President, Board Member & Chief Legal Officer at Hearst Communications. She also serves as a Vice President at HearstLab. She is a member of Hearst's board of directors. She has overall responsibility for day-to-day management for the Office of General Counsel, which provides legal services to all of Hearst's businesses around the world. She also manages Oracle HCM technology operations, compliance, corporate human resource issues, labor relations, and government affairs. Additionally, she is a member of Hearst's Venture Committee, which funds digital initiatives, and is the co-founder of and oversees HearstLab, which fosters innovation and investment in early-stage businesses led by women. She sits on the board of directors of Intuit and previously was on the board of directors of AOL until its sale to Verizon. She is a member of the advisory board of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford and Columbia Universities and is a member of The Council of Foreign Affairs. Prior to joining Hearst, She served as vice president and chief legal counsel at Cable News Network where she oversaw all legal matters relating to news and other programming on CNN networks and websites. From 1995 to 2000, she was at the New York Daily News as the deputy general counsel. She began her career at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges after serving as a law clerk for the Hon. Leonard B. Sand in the United States District Court of New York. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Thammasat University in Bangkok.