# May Haim Kotlarsky

> May Haim Kotlarsky is CEO, General Counsel and Board Director at The Brief (formerly Creatopy), a Romania-and-California based AI marketing platform. A lawyer by training with an LLB from Hebrew University and an LLM from Georgetown Law, she spent years leading privacy and monetization AI legal work at Meta, GitHub, and Rakuten Viki before moving into the operator seat at The Brief in July 2025.

- **Role:** CEO, General Counsel & Board Director at The Brief
- **Organizations:** The Brief, Meta, GitHub, Rakuten Viki, Live365, Ayolla, Kardan, Gornitzky, Israeli Defense Forces, Creatopy
- **Nationality:** Israeli / American
- **Education:** LLM, Corporations, Securities & Financial Regulation, Georgetown University Law Center, LLB, Bachelor of Laws, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- **Known for:** Led privacy legal work at GitHub during a period of major platform growth, Held Associate General Counsel role on Meta's Monetization AI team, Admitted to the California Bar (Licensee #802080)

## Career timeline

- **early** — Served in the Israeli Defense Forces
- **early** — Associate at Gornitzky & Co. and Kardan (International Investment & Holding Group)
- **2013** — Counsel for Business and Legal Affairs at Live365
- **2015** — Head of Legal and Corporate Counsel at Rakuten Viki
- **2019** — Privacy Counsel, then Director of Privacy Counsel at GitHub
- **2021** — Associate General Counsel, Monetization AI / Privacy at Meta
- **2025** — Named CEO, General Counsel & Board Director of The Brief (rebranded from Creatopy)

## Achievements

- Led privacy legal work at GitHub during a period of major platform growth
- Held Associate General Counsel role on Meta's Monetization AI team
- Admitted to the California Bar (Licensee #802080)
- Assumed CEO role at The Brief as it launched what it calls the industry's first end-to-end AI agency for marketers

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Joined The Brief as CEO, General Counsel & Board Director
- **2025-11** — The Brief publicly rebranded from Creatopy and launched its end-to-end AI agency platform

## Links

- Website: https://thebrief.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayhaimkotlarsky
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mayhaim
- GitHub: https://github.com/MayHK
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBrief-AI
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maymay.hk/

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Last updated: 2026-07-09