Junna Ro

Former General Counsel, Metromile

Metro Region: San Francisco Bay Area

Member Since: 2022

Junna Ro is an experienced legal and compliance executive who has been practicing law for over 25 years. She most recently served as general counsel, compliance officer, and corporate secretary at Metromile, a leading digital insurance platform in the U.S. offering pay-per-mile auto insurance policies. In her role, she oversaw a team of legal, regulatory, and compliance professionals as a member of the leadership team. She was also the interim head of people, responsible for people operations, total rewards, recruiting, and diversity equity & inclusion. She helped to close its sale to Lemonade in 2022.

Junna joined Metromile with more than 15 years of experience in the industry at CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA insurer and one of the top 20 personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the U.S. She was vice president, chief ethics and compliance officer and associate general counsel, responsible for corporate compliance and ethics, privacy, product forms, and employment law.

Before AAA, she served as corporate counsel at Symantec and its predecessor VERITAS Software for seven years.

Junna is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly in the legal and compliance professional communities, and regularly speaks about how it is critical to achieving more effective outcomes.

Junna earned her JD from Santa Clara University School of Law and her bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA.

She sits on the Asian Pacific Fund’s advisory council, and on the executive committee for the National Association for Diversity in Compliance. Previously, she served on the board of the Bay Area Ethics and Compliance Association and the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California. She is admitted to practice law in California.