Zayneb Shaikley

Zayneb helps social enterprises grow internal capacity and create programs that achieve greater impact while ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, and consistency with best practices.

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Zayneb works with Beyond clients to refine, grow, and scale organizational operations. She advises clients’ boards of directors, senior management, and internal enterprise teams on matters related to board governance, employment practices, commercial transactions, and issues affecting tax-exempt organizations, and compliance with other applicable regulatory frameworks.

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Zayneb helps clients establish and maintain compliant and seamlessly integrated legal and operational structures and practices that enable them to carry out their work, whether domestically, internationally, or both.

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Zayneb’s expertise includes keen awareness and counsel of critically important Board, Human Resources, and program operations that are often most important to growth stage nonprofits and social enterprises. 

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Prior to joining Beyond, Zayneb worked at the Clinton Foundation for ten years, most recently serving as Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of the Board of Directors. She played a key role in developing and leading the legal department, counseling the Board and senior leadership, establishing successful legal structures and entities in various countries to support the Foundation’s work, and providing strategic and operational guidance to program teams of some of the most dynamic philanthropic and cross-sector programs and partnerships in the world.

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In advising the Foundation’s program teams operating throughout the US and in 40 countries around the world, Zayneb gained unparalleled experience working across subject areas including, among others, global health, climate change, commercial agriculture, supply chain innovation, special event operations, early literacy, and economic development.

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Zayneb joined the Clinton Foundation as a Clinton-Orfalea Fellow, a fellowship awarded to alumni of USC’s graduate schools who have a demonstrated commitment to social action and public service.

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A native of Southern California, Zayneb received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. In her spare time, she enjoys being outdoors with her husband and their three kids.