Thomas Chow is a strategic executive, operator, and advisor with over 20 years of experience in scaling public and private technology companies. He seamlessly communicates in three languages: 1) the technical knowledge of founders and engineers that researches and develops products, 2) law and public policy that reduces risk and enables compliance by executing against digestible action items, and 3) corporate strategy that drives revenue, business opportunities, and organizational maturity.

As a leader of leaders, Thomas develops, coaches and mentors people across various functions who move on to bigger and better roles, or become his successors in leading administrative, legal, and operational functions. He has established legal, compliance, and policy teams at companies covering e-commerce, financial services (fintech), digital advertising (adtech), and social media. Across these roles, Thomas has overseen business operations in information security (cybersecurity), strategic planning, global expansion, human resources, facilities (real estate), government affairs, and risk management. He understands both the business operations and technical aspects of companies as a former IT professional and systems architect.

Working with startups and founders is Thomas' passion. He serves on the Board of Directors of Berkeley Compute and Cryptsonic Technologies, the Executive Board of TechGC, and the Advisory Board of BiBo Labs.

Diversity in business and the legal profession is important to Thomas. He is co-chair of the Bay Area Asian American General Counsel Network, former executive sponsor of PubMatic's and co-founder of Snap's AAPI employee resource group, and often speaks on diversity, equity, and inclusion in business and the legal profession.

Thomas is currently Chief Legal Officer at Chia Network, an enterprise blockchain software company, where he is leading the company's IPO and public company readiness process. He was most recently General Counsel & Secretary at PubMatic, a $2B publicly traded advertising cloud infrastructure platform company, where he led the company’s $140M IPO (NASDAQ:PUBM).

Thomas obtained his B.A. in Sociology, with honors, from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.