Corporate Leadership Award

Honoree Julie Rottenberg

Executive Vice President, General Counsel

Julie B. Rottenberg is Visa’s executive vice president, general counsel. Ms. Rottenberg oversees the global legal and compliance function, including leading the company’s global litigation, regulatory, commercial agreements and M&A matters related to Visa’s global operations. Ms. Rottenberg joined Visa’s litigation team in 2008, and in her most recent prior role served as deputy general counsel and chief counsel of North America, where she advised the business on the evolving regulatory environment, expanding client engagements, and other matters for Visa’s largest region.

Prior to joining Visa, Ms. Rottenberg was a partner specializing in litigation and antitrust at Arnold & Porter, LLP in Washington D.C. Earlier in her career she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Beezer, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Samuel Wilson, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia.

Ms. Rottenberg holds a Juris Doctor with highest honors from George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from San Diego State University.

CPR Board of Directors Chair Craig B. Glidden

Executive Vice President - Legal, Policy, Cybersecurity & Strategic Technology Initiatives General Motors

Craig B. Glidden is Executive Vice President for Legal (General Counsel and Corporate Secretary), Cybersecurity, and Strategic Technology Initiatives for General Motors. Glidden joined GM in March 2015 as executive vice president and general counsel. While in that role, he led a transformation of GM’s global legal operations to support the company’s vision of a future with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. Glidden was named Executive Vice President of Global Public Policy and assumed the responsibilities of Corporate Secretary in 2021. He also began leading Cybersecurity and Strategic Technology Initiatives in 2022.

Prior to joining GM, Glidden had been Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for LyondellBasell, one of the world’s largest plastics, chemicals, and refining companies.

Glidden also previously served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., a position he held after leaving private law practice.

Glidden received a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University in 1980, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained a Juris Doctor with high honors from Florida State University in 1983, where he served as editor-in-chief and managing editor of the Florida State University Law Review.

Glidden is a member and past chair of The General Counsel Forum. As of March 2022, Glidden also serves as chair of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable Legal Advisory Group.

Corporate Leadership Award

Dinner Committee Chair

Bruce Byrd

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Palo Alto Networks

Bruce Byrd is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Palo Alto Networks. In that role, he is responsible, globally, for legal affairs, corporate governance, policy and government affairs, compliance, and risk and resilience at the world’s largest cybersecurity company. He joined the company in January 2021.

Before joining Palo Alto Networks in January 2021, Bruce was the Chief Legal Officer of AT&T Communications, responsible for legal affairs at AT&T’s largest operating company. There, he led a team of over 300 lawyers and managed the full range of legal disciplines: litigation; labor negotiations; marketing and advertising development and disputes; pricing and antitrust; government contracting; and international regulatory and trade. He coordinated major strategic initiatives with the Executive Branch and Congress on security, spectrum, and supply chain matters, and oversaw the company’s relationship with the U.S. intelligence community.

Prior to AT&T, Bruce was a partner at Dickinson Wright PLLC, where he maintained an active commercial litigation, regulatory and class action defense practice.

Bruce is committed to community service, particularly in the realm of inclusion and diversity. He is the chair of the board of directors of the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession and serves on the boards of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution and the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas.

Bruce graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in economics and received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School.