Susan Stearns is director of trademark and brand enforcement at PayPal, Inc., where she provides global legal support to PayPal’s sales, marketing, and brand teams and manages PayPal’s soft IP team. She leads PayPal’s brand enforcement program and works closely with cross-functional enforcement teams to advance the company’s priorities, including Anti-Phishing, financial scam prevention, trademark infringement, and other forms of online abuse. Before joining PayPal, Susan served as senior counsel, trademarks and copyrights, at Coinbase, Inc., a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform. At Coinbase, she managed the global trademark and copyright compliance program, as well as the intellectual property compliance program for its NFT marketplace. Before Coinbase, Susan was trademark counsel at Amazon. Susan has more than 15 years of experience specializing in global trademark portfolio management and enforcement. She routinely advises business leaders on intellectual property, marketing, regulatory compliance, contract negotiation, and the management of legal disputes.