Kim Azzarelli is the Co-Founder & CEO of Seneca Women, a global leadership platform focused on advancing women and girls, and serves as an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow. A leading corporate, legal and technology executive, Kim has significant experience in launching and building programs with Fortune 100 companies, including Apple, Bank of America, Bloomberg, iHeartMedia, Intel, P&G, Toyota and Walmart, among others. Together with Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Kim is co-author of the best-selling book Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose and co-host of the podcast Seneca’s Conversations on Power and Purpose.

Prior to her work with Seneca, Kim held senior public affairs and legal roles at Newsweek, Goldman Sachs and Avon. At Newsweek Daily Beast, she served as Senior Vice President, leading strategy, partnerships and philanthropy for Women in the World. At Goldman Sachs, she led the billion-dollar donor advised fund, Goldman Sachs Gives. At Avon, she served as Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs and Corporate Secretary and served on the Board of the Avon Foundation.

Prior to joining Avon, she practiced corporate and securities law at Latham & Watkins and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Harold Ackerman. Kim has served as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, co-founded Cornell Law School’s Center for Women and Justice and is a co-author with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of "Sustainable Development, Rule of Law and the Impact of Women Judges.” Kim is a graduate of Cornell Law School and Cornell University and began her career at JP Morgan as a financial analyst in the venture capital group.