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I create stories and speak on culture, tech, AI, innovation & leadership. Founder of stealth startup.

Creator, Host and Producer of new AI Podcast Season 2, featuring leading experts from Andrew Ng, Facebook’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, to the Thanos creators, the World Bank, Data for Black Lives, Google DeepMind, Genentech and US Congresswoman Robin Kelly, who held the first hearings on AI in the House of Representatives. Public Speaker

Business development and strategic partnerships focused on next-gen AI technologies.Launched internal incubation.Chief of Staff and Technical Assistant to Amir Khosrowshahi.AI thought leadership.

Legal Lead, AI Investments and Strategic Transactions, Intel CapitalManaging Counsel, Office of the CTO, AI Products GroupI develop partnerships with Silicon Valley's next-gen AI tech leaders. I've worked with >100 startups from incorporation to IPO/acquisition, advising execs and board members over company life cycles on business, strategic and legal matters. I lead a team pursuing a key customer engagement.I speak on AI and my writings on AI have appeared in Fortune and Forbes.At Intel Capital, I partner with investors on seed-stage to multi-billion dollar public company investments in ML/AI, AR/VR, and fintech. I sit as board observer for Two Bit Circus.Representative work:$4.1B ASML investment and strategic partnership$740M Cloudera investment$150M Samba Nova investmentOther investments include Landing.ai, Box, Paperspace, R3 & Sprinklr. Intel Division Recognition Awards.Special projects include accelerator formation, $125M Diversity Fund, training of board members. Cross-functional work managing counsel on business/technical collaboration agreements, commercial contracts, licensing agreements, open source, data security, privacy, tax, securities, human resources.Recent Talks: "The Future of AI," Beijing O'Reilly, June 21, 2019"The Present and Future of AI," @ Hub.Berlin, Berlin, April 10, 2019"Europe's Leadership in Human-Centric AI," @ Digital Europe, Brussels, February 21, 2019"AI, Autonomous Driving & Big Data: Law, Policy & Ethics" @ National Association of Women's Lawyers' Fourteenth General Counsel Institute, November 8-9, 2018"Increasing Influence of Corporate Venture Capital" @ Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel, October 16, 2018

Seconded from Gibson Dunn

I serve as board observer on behalf of Intel Capital.Two Bit Circus is a modern high-tech circus exploring the future of fun. The team of artists, inventors, educators and performers build big games, tell stories with technology, and make liberal use of lasers, fire and robots. The builds and operates Micro-Amusement Parks with a flagship in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. They’ve captured action sports content in 360 video for brands like NFL, NBA, Indy and the Olympics and then installed VR activations at the Super Bowl, All Star games and at Verizon stores. They launched a high-tech traveling carnival to inspire the world about the possibilities of STEM+Art with coverage including CNN, Fast Company, and USA Today. Many of the team created the viral This Too Shall Pass music video for OK Go that garnered 50+ million views on YouTube. For more information, visit twobitcircus.com or follow @TwoBitCircus.

Served as general counsel to venture capital investors and tech start up companies in financings, joint ventures and day-to-day corporate, securities, privacy, employment and business matters. Counsel for private and public companies for capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions.Co-authored article, “California Amends Corporations Code to Liberalize and Streamline Legal Standards for Corporate Distributions and Dividends,” Insights (October 2011) (featured on Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation).

Acquisitions, securities, and capital markets transactions in a total of over $9B in debt, equity and hybrid securities issuances. Exemplary clients included:- Goldman Sachs- Morgan Stanley- JP Morgan- The World Bank- International Finance CorporationDrafted comments on promulgated US regulations pertaining to derivative transactions, anti-money laundering provisions and foreign assets control. Co-authored “Private Fund and Adviser Rule Proposals,” Derivatives Financial Products Report (March 2007).

Law Clerk for the Honorable Judge Judith W. RogersAssisted the Honorable Judge Rogers prepare for oral argument and draft opinions.

Corporate transactions, fund formation.

Corporate transactions, licensing, trademark, regulatory and litigation matters.

I worked on legislative and regulatory matters involving the AOL-Time Warner merger, non-discriminatory access to cable broadband for Internet service providers, business-to-business online exchanges and immigration law. I met with lobbyists from technology and internet companies regarding Internet privacy, denial of service attacks, the digital divide, and other policy matters.