Christy Freer is the General Counsel of Inspiration Mobility, a DC-based investment and infrastructure company partnering with fleet businesses to finance, build, own, and operate real assets to enable their rapid transition to electric vehicle fleets.

Before Inspiration, Christy served as the DGC and Lead Corporate Counsel for Plaid, a late-stage fintech company with a mission to unlock financial freedom for everyone. She covered governance, finance, equity compensation, M&A and investments at Plaid, and is widely viewed as a strategic business partner and mentor to others in the finance industry.

Christy previously was Counsel in Mayer Brown's Banking & Finance practice group, where she led development of the firm's capabilities in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing and served as a key client relationship manager and leader of the NextGen initiative, fostering networking opportunities for young lawyers and their in-house counterparts. Prior to her time at Mayer Brown, Christy spent 7 years at Capital One, where she led legal support for the Treasury department, including coverage of secured and unsecured financing, M&A financing, capital markets disclosure, derivatives and portfolio management. Christy also served as a leader on Capital One's pro bono committee. She spent the first 8 years of her legal career in big law at Jones Day and at Orrick, working on a wide range of transactional and governance matters in the finance industry, with specialized expertise in asset-backed securitization.