Tom Rubin joined Open AI first in 2020 as an Outside Counsel and later became a Strategic Advisor for the company. In 2023, he took over the position as Chief of Intellectual Property and Content. Tom is also a lecturer in law at Stanford law school.

From 1998 to 2014 Tom worked for Microsoft in several position. He joined the company as Corporate Attorney, later became Senior Attorney and Associate General Counsel. In 2008 he changed to the position of Chief Intellectual Property Strategy Counsel.  Tom spearheaded legal and regulatory intellectual property strategies, submissions and partnerships, including with government officials, companies, trade associations, academics, public interest organizations, and media. He was the leader of numerous intra- and inter-industry coalitions filing amicus briefs in U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, California Supreme Court and elsewhere. He was a co-leader of landmark User Generated Content Principles between content owners and online services that established voluntary guidelines to reduce infringement on online video services. Moreover, Tom was the original architect of Microsoft’s corporate compliance program.

He is a senior legal/policy leader and business strategist in intellectual property, technology, artificial intelligence, licensing, regulation, and corporate governance. Prior to his Microsoft time, Tom worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. He was one of the country’s first prosecutors of computer and intellectual property crimes and was awarded the Department of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1997.