Unreasonable Mentors

Olabisi Akinola

Director Legal, Facebook

Olabisi is an Unreasonable Mentor. Olabisi has participated in 5 programs, including Unreasonable FUTURE 2021, and has advised over 72 Unreasonable companies.
Born and raised in West Africa, Bisi attended Law School in London, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University College London, where she was a Bentham Scholar. She began her legal career in one of the leading law firms in Aberdeen, Scotland (Burness Paull). She also worked with a government agency dedicated to protecting the environment in London. In 2007, Bisi joined the prestigious firm of Fenwick & West based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she represented blue chip companies such as Cisco, Symantec, HP, Pinterest, SuccessFactors, Facebook as a corporate attorney specializing in venture capital work, securities and mergers & acquisitions for a number of years until she decided to go in-house. She worked for a French multinational known as Schlumberger, a start up in Silicon Valley called Zazzle, and a US public gaming company called Zynga. Bisi spent a few years as a legal director for North America and Latin America at LinkedIn Corporation, the leading and global provider of a professional networking platform. Following her time at LinkedIn, she joined the legal team of cloud content management company, Box, as Senior Director on the Legal team. Bisi is currently a legal Director leading the Messenger and Remote Presence Legal team at Meta. She continues to build on her domestic and international legal experience working on business development, inbound and outbound technology counseling, content licensing, intellectual property protection, sales and marketing transactions, and general corporate and commercial matters.