Full Name
Alycia Guichard
Job Title
Global Corporate Counsel-VBG & Pro Bono Program Manager
Company
Verizon
Speaker Bio
Alycia Michelle Guichard, is Global Corporate Counsel for Verizon Business Group and supports Verizon Connect, the Verizon telematics and fleet management platform business. In this role, she partners with international and domestic commercial clients to innovate, launch, and market new products and services, advising across a wide range of legal, regulatory, compliance, and risk issues. Previously, Alycia supported Open Development, Network Certification, and the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) enterprise products and services for the Product and New Business Innovation team.

Alycia also manages the Verizon Pro Bono Program for the Legal, Corporate Security & Public Policy teams and serves as Verizon's Legal & Corporate Security Business Unit's Volunteer POC for Verizon's Corporate Social Responsibility/Citizen Verizon initiatives. The Pro Bono Program offers a multitude of opportunities in the following areas: Educate, Empower & Mentor Youth, Legal Support to Individuals, Legal Support to Nonprofits and Small Businesses, Criminal Justice Reform, Community Service, and International. As Verizon's Legal & Corporate Security Volunteer POC, Alycia is responsible for communications to advertise monthly theme-related opportunities, and drive volunteerism efforts throughout the year to achieve Legal & Corporate Security’s annual volunteerism goal. Her work in this role contributes to Verizon's Corporate Social Responsibility Citizen Verizon initiative to reach 2.5 million volunteer hours by 2025 to move the world forward one hour at a time.

Alycia has an Associate in Arts (AA) from Westchester Community College and a Bachelor of Science (BS), with Honors, from New York University. At NYU, she was awarded an American Bar Association (ABA) Scholarship to attend law school, and went on to earn a Juris Doctorate (JD) from Fordham University School of Law. While at Fordham Law, Alycia interned at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, who now sits as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Alycia was the first Fordham graduate in the school’s history to receive a Georgetown University Law Center Clinical Teaching Fellowship, and subsequently earned a Master of Laws (LL.M), with Distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center. Alycia also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), magna cum laude, from Strayer University.

Alycia serves as a member of Street Law, Inc.’s Leadership Circle and Family Legal Care (FLC) Lawyers Council. Alycia also serves on the Board of Directors of Prevent Child Abuse—NJ (“PCA—NJ) where she serves as Chair of the Board Development Committee.
Alycia Guichard