Allison Dodd Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

At Gem, I've partnered closely with the General Counsel to establish Gem’s first legal commercial and operations function, including developing and optimizing deal support workflows, templates, policies, trainings, playbooks, customer talk tracks and enablement materials.I negotiate all ENT/SMB/MM sales deals, including MSAs, DPAs, and Order Forms, resulting in timely and successful deal closures through strong partnerships built with the sales, EPD and finance teams. I also provide contracting strategy advice and develop streamlined commercial terms to facilitate easy and rapid customer adoption of AI, hosted website and other new product offerings.

San Francisco, California, Us

I served as the product and commercial legal lead for a new regulated product launch, including advising the business on HIPAA compliance implications of commercialization approach options and negotiating key partner contracts. I also negotiated enterprise customer deals, revamped templates and refined playbooks for Calm app B2B sales.

San Francisco, California, Us

I led Slack's 14 person Americas commercial legal team, providing strategic, business-oriented legal guidance to the global business development org and sales teams for the US, Canada and Latin America. Our team supported large enterprise, enterprise, mid-market, small medium business and public sector sales negotiations in the Americas. I built out the first dedicated business development legal support function at Slack, drafting and optimizing templates for platform, alliances and channels programs designed to enable the business and scale globally in line with GTM international expansion. I negotiated agreements with large enterprise technology companies working with Slack as customers, partners, and sub-processors and supported M&A diligence and integration.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led a US-based attorney and contract negotiator team supporting US and international business development and sales teams. Advised on developing for scale and managing Slack’s global business development program & initiatives. Negotiated and provided team guidance on outbound SaaS subscription and professional services deals, with customers ranging in size from small business to large enterprise, and in industries including technology, financial services, healthcare & pharmaceutical, telecom, media and public sector. Negotiated strategic sourcing and marketing deals and supported M&A and integration activities.

San Francisco, California, Us

Individual contributor role negotiating and advising on a high volume of outbound large enterprise and enterprise SaaS subscription, professional services and data privacy agreements (MSA’s, DPA’s, SOWs, Order Forms and BAA’s). Launched dedicated legal support framework for Slack's global business development team, managing platform partnerships, strategic alliances, systems integrator and reseller deals.

Denver, Co, Us

Primarily responsible for sell-side SaaS, software & data licensing transactions for health optimization platform and wellness solutions provider. I advised on IP and data rights, as well as HIPAA and other data privacy and security matters.

Paris, Fr

I was the lead attorney supporting WhiteWave's brand marketing, creative, and R&D teams. I negotiated and managed WhiteWave's product development, agency, endorsement & sponsorship, influencer and other marketing deals. I advised on social media and other online content and terms, as well as data privacy & security matters. WhiteWave was acquired by Danone in 2017.

New York, New York, Us

Practice focused on technology transactions, IP and data licensing and commercialization, partnerships, strategic alliances and sponsorships, IP and technology development and protection. I advised on data privacy and security issues and compliance, as well as the IP and privacy-related aspects of clients' M&A, financing and securities deals.

New York, New York, Us

Juris Doctor, Cum Laude

Bs, Communications Studies