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Ari Staiman serves as General Counsel at Roblox. He structures strategic relationships with key global partners to drive Roblox’s creation, innovation, and growth worldwide while ensuring legal compliance.

Ari is an international e-commerce and global video game industry veteran, both on the business and legal sides, for over 20 years. He has lived, worked, and helped launch and run successful operations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.

On the business side, Ari served as President of SEGA Amusement Works and SVP, General Manager of the China and Ireland branches at Borderfree (NASDAQ: BRDR), which enabled online sales in over 220 countries. On the legal side, he was SEGA’s global General Counsel (stationed at its Tokyo headquarters, overseeing Asia, Europe, and the United States) and Borderfree’s General Counsel where he brought the company through its financing rounds, initial public offering, and acquisition.

Ari received his JD from the School of Law at Fordham University and he graduated with a BA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.