Diana Santos

Diana G. Santos is Senior Counsel at IBM, where she supports the Consulting business with generative AI issues worldwide and works on complex deals as the Global Generative AI Lead. Before this role, she supported IBM's Global Markets organization, which drives the adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and guidance from IBM Consulting professionals.

She is a member of IBM's AI Technology Ethics Advocacy Network. Additionally, she is an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, where she teaches about the legal issues related to AI. Diana received her Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering, from The Cooper Union; her Master of Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania; her J.D. from Fordham University's School of Law; and LL.M. in European Law, mention assez bien, from Paris II-Université Panthéon-Assas, Collège Européen de Paris.

Before IBM, she was Assistant General Counsel at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ("MSK"), Associate Counsel at the New York Genome Center ("NYGC"), and outside counsel at Ropes & Gray LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

At MSK, Diana led various strategic data and technology transactions. She supported members of the digital health business development and licensing team and the strategic Digital, Informatics, and Technology Solutions ("DigITs") team. Diana counseled senior executives and worked closely with compliance and business teams to analyze issues and mitigate risks related to hardware, software (on-premises and SaaS), cloud computing, AI, IP, data use and collection, healthcare regulations, and collaborative works between MSK and industry partners. She also collaborated with subject matter experts to address privacy and consumer protection laws and information security teams to address cybersecurity risks.

At NYGC, she drafted, structured, and negotiated a wide range of contracts, provided legal support to NYGC's executive and business development teams, managed NYGC's IP, revised agreements for NYGC's service offerings, counseled on laws affecting its operations, and addressed data privacy and compliance issues, including as related to genetic data.

As a Big Law associate, she advised major software, hardware, e-commerce, technology, investment, automotive, biopharmaceutical, consumer products, and startup companies through transactions and litigation. She led teams addressing various IP and technology issues relating to commercial agreements, diligence for investments (M&A), invention and product development, branding, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and domain rights.

She passionately advocates for diversity, equality, and inclusion through her leadership and membership activities, including as a former Board member of the New York Intellectual Property Association, former 2nd VP of Fordham Law's Alumni of Attorneys of Color, and an active member of the Hispanic National Bar Association's Corporate Counsel Division.

Education

Harvard Law School Executive Education, Program on Negotiation Certificate

Fordham University School of Law, J.D.

Université Panthéon–Assas, Collège Européen de Paris, Master of Laws in European Law

University of Pennsylvania, M.B., Bioengineering

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Bachelor of Engineering