Eileen McCarthy is general counsel and corporate secretary at JetBlue, with responsibility for legal, ethics and compliance, ESG and sustainability efforts, as well as managing the company's relationship with its board of directors.
She previously served as a member of JetBlue’s legal leadership team from 2006-2021 – most recently as vice president, associate general counsel – overseeing areas including corporate governance, securities law, and ethics and compliance programs, while also supporting the board of directors.
From 2021-2024 she served as senior legal leader at UiPath, Inc., an AI-focused enterprise automation software company headquartered in New York. Most recently she served as senior vice president - deputy general counsel corporate, and managed a global team covering securities, corporate governance, employment, ethics and compliance, privacy, insurance, ESG, litigation, equity, transactions and general corporate matters.
Earlier in her career, McCarthy was a partner in the corporate transactions and securities group of a national law firm, with a practice that focused on advising public companies on securities law and governance issues. She is a former law clerk for the Hon. K. Michael Moore, U.S.D.J., Southern District of Florida, and admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and to the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
McCarthy earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and her law degree from Fordham University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Fordham International Law Journal.