HONOREE

Keith Chapman

General Counsel
Instawork
Rutgers Law School

Keith Chapman is general counsel for Instawork, the leading flexible work platform for hourly workers across the country. His background includes a blend of practical, in-house savvy guiding of marketplace companies through hypergrowth, law firm training, and governmental enforcement experience. From early human rights advocacy to the future of work, Chapman has worked to build systems that create economic opportunity for workers while protecting their basic rights and dignity at each stage of his career.

At Instawork, Chapman manages the company’s legal function, coordinating regulatory compliance efforts, facilitating corporate and M&A activity, managing litigation, growing public policy, and overseeing employment matters, product, and cross-departmental trust & safety efforts.

Before joining Instawork’s leadership team, Chapman expanded the legal function at Postmates Inc. and helped transition the delivery network company through its acquisition by Uber Technologies, Inc. At Postmates, Chapman served as associate general counsel, where he led legal teams responsible for government and labor relations, litigation, as well as product and policy considerations related to the future of work. He played a core role in Postmates’ advocacy for worker standards in the gig economy, including the company’s support for a successful 2020 ballot initiative with Proposition 22, which protected worker autonomy and flexibility while providing rideshare and delivery drivers with earnings guarantees, expense reimbursement, health insurance stipends, occupational accident insurance, and protections from workplace discrimination & harassment.

Before Postmates, Chapman worked as a senior associate at the San Francisco office for Littler Mendelson, P.C., a global labor and employment law firm.

While at Littler, he built a practice focused on class and representative action defense and counseled employers on implementing and enforcing anti-discrimination and harassment policies. Chapman had joined Littler after four years at the New York City Commission on Human Rights, where he served as the Commission’s youngest supervising attorney.

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Khoi D. Dang

EVP & Chief Legal Officer
Bank of Southern California, N.A.
Santa Clara University School of Law

As a current senior executive and the chief legal officer of Southern California Bancorp and Bank of Southern California, N.A., Khoi D. Dang brings with him a track record of delivering innovative legal and business solutions based on resourceful strategies. A dedicated community bank attorney with over 15 years’ experience — as a partner-level attorney at both boutique and international law firms—his unique industry perspective, appreciation of risks, and business acumen all come into play on a regular basis as he helps both executive management and boards of directors develop and actuate corporate-wide strategies while maintaining hands-on consultative relationships with individual business units.

Dang has a rare cross-section of professional experiences and competencies – spanning corporate finance, public company representation, mergers and acquisitions, and community banking and financial services. He leveraged these core competencies when he advised First Choice Bancorp on its “go public” strategy in 2018.

Justin Wade Fong

General Counsel
AmWest Funding Corp.
Washington University School of Law

Justin Fong is general counsel for AmWest Funding Corp., one of the largest non-QM mortgage originators in the country. In the last 24 months, Fong has assisted his company with over $500 million in loan securitizations, over $5 billion in loan sales, and $100 million in corporate funding. In addition, he has been instrumental in developing legal operations for the company.

Among his successes, Fong developed a contract management system to process the company's vendor and large partnership contracts. The system ensures that contracts are dealt with in an efficient, consistent, and structured manner. This includes the Contract Playbook, Contract Intake Form, Contract Management Library, contract templates, and Key Clauses templates. The contract operational system is an ongoing development and in the last two years, over 70 vendor contracts were put through the AmWest Contract Operational System.

Todd Hamblet

Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Fundbox
UC Hastings College of the Law

Todd Hamblet is the chief legal officer & corporate secretary of Fundbox. He oversees all aspects of legal operations at Fundbox and provides strategic advice to senior management. His responsibilities include corporate governance, strategic transactions and partnerships, product development, HR matters, government and regulatory affairs, and regulatory compliance.

Hamblet's early career spanned 14 years at international law firms where he maintained a general corporate practice with a focus on global capital markets, M&A, public company reporting and compliance, and corporate governance. He has advised on successful transactions throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. In 2014, he joined Uber as its first corporate lawyer where he built a team that executed all of Uber's capital markets and global M&A transactions, including raising billions of dollars in equity and debt transactions and closing transactions and joint ventures in the U.S., China, Europe, India and Southeast Asia.