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(2)An-Yen Hu
An-Yen Hu is Operating Partner and General Counsel at Benchmark, the storied Sand Hill Road venture firm. He handles the legal and operational machinery so the investing partners can focus on companies. He joined in July 2020 from Goodwin Procter, where he made partner in 2014, led the Silicon Valley office's hiring, and ran point for the underwriters on Snap's $3.4 billion IPO.
Ashley Caldwell
Ashley Caldwell is Partner and General Counsel at Sapphire Ventures, the Menlo Park venture capital firm with more than $11B in AUM across its Ventures, Partners, and Sport platforms. She runs legal across all three strategies — deal execution, governance, regulatory, exits — for a firm that backs growth-stage technology companies globally. A former Kirkland & Ellis private equity associate and Bluevine in-house counsel, she joined Sapphire in 2019, was elevated to General Counsel in 2021, and now wears the Partner title too.