Rob Chesnut is an advisor to Airbnb, along with several other internet marketplace startup businesses, including Uber, Upwork, Turo, and Poshmark. He is the former Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, a role he took on after nearly four years as the company’s General Counsel.

During his time at Airbnb, Chestnut developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company. His book, “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution,” argues that companies who do not think seriously about a critical element of corporate culture -- integrity -- are destined to fail.

Chestnut previously led eBay’s North America legal team, where he founded the Internet’s first e-commerce person-to-person platform Trust and Safety team. Previously, he was also the general counsel at Chegg, Inc., and he served 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department as a federal prosecutor, where he ran the Major Crimes unit. He is the recipient of the Justice Department’s John Marshall Award for litigation, and the CIA’s Outstanding Service Medallion.

Chestnut is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.

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