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Michelle Banks is Senior Vice President General Counsel Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Gap Inc.
In her current role Michelle oversees the archives records and privacy; legal; corporate compliance; corporate governance; government affairs and public policy; and stock administration functions. She joined the Gap Inc. Legal Department in 1999. Prior to becoming General Counsel in 2006 Michelle established and led Gap Inc.’s corporate compliance and corporate governance functions.
Before joining Gap Inc. Michelle was in-house legal counsel for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and prior to that worked in Japan as American counsel for ITOCHU Corporation a publicly held trading company. She was also associated with several law firms including Morrison & Foerster in California and New York focusing on corporate finance and international transactions.
Michelle graduated from UCLA with degrees in Law and Economics and was admitted to the California bar in 1988. She is a member of Bay Area General Counsel General Counsel Roundtable Association of Corporate Counsel Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) and Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF). She serves on the Board of Directors of MCCA and on the Advisory Committee to BASF’s Legal Employment Action Program. | 