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London

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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Head of legal for block chain financial services companies including Lykke Corp AG. Responsible for structuring the legal function for long-term success. Managing financial regulatory strategy, resolving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) issues, leading employment legal issues, establishing commercial contracting best practices, providing company secretarial guidance and support, coordinating with the Board of Directors on corporate governance matters. Recently successfully implemented data protection compliance programs to align with the GDPR.

United States

• Hand-picked to lead Cisco’s $10B cloud networking business, with platform development for Cisco legal team. Manage a team of senior attorney subject matter experts, drive business value by accelerating decision-making in areas of transition and cloud offer development including conversion of software offers to cloud-based offers.• Improved intellectual property compliance procedures so as to de-risk the use of open source code while protecting technology innovations. Increased training and awareness, instilled accountability on individual business owners and helped improve associated process and tools. • Improved data privacy "by design" compliance procedures. Conducted cross-functional trainings between legal and business. Inserted compliance earlier in the product development process so as to enable expedient, market-driven solutions.• Helped develop innovative business models in light of changing market demands and new technologies involving hybrid open source and proprietary offers. Worked with finance, engineering and product management to devise offer terms.

London And Washington, Dc

Selected for a three-year international assignment in the UK, leading Cisco's enterprise and public-sector business in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia, aligning to Cisco’s EMEA CEO and overseeing a team of attorneys. Direct and dotted line responsibility for all legal affairs in the region in a “turn around” situation. Achievements:• Led business expansion initiatives into the Middle East and Russia, overseeing corporate structural changes in various countries and implementing local contracting motions. Implemented new data protection requirements. • Improved compliance procedures by restructuring the organization and increasing interaction among internal compliance facing teams. Drove resolution of internal and external investigations in a variety of issues and timely managed audit remediation issues in several countries.• Supported anti-corruption, transparency and anti-money laundering compliance in the company's outbound sales process and for the company's financial captive, Cisco Capital. • Facilitated and coordinated internal investigations and external disputes. Examples: disgruntled employee disputes, gray market issues, corruption investigations, tax investigations, Sarbanes Oxley and corporate governance issues, contract disputes, reseller fraud. • Reduced outside counsel spend by more than 50% using a combination of gatekeeper procedures, consolidating counsel across multiple countries and renegotiating contractor support.• Oversaw conclusion of numerous complex deals involving combinations of software, hardware, services and cloud offers, in public sector and enterprise, with deal values up to the hundreds of millions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Successfully fulfilled objectives in progressively increasingly senior roles, leading teams in a variety of contexts. Highlights: Director, Legal Services, Data Center Division Led a team of senior attorneys aligning to the then-emerging data center switching, server and software technology business. • Implemented change agent initiatives in the areas of efficient contract decision-making, intellectual property protection, partner diligence, template drafting and software licensing models.• Managed the top alliance relationships with major technology partners, ensuring that contract outcomes met client objectives to increase market penetration while protecting valuable intellectual property. • Managed strategic “spin-in” transaction in an innovative contract structure which enabled the development of new networking technology in the software defined networking (SDN) space, ensuring that key employees were retained, keeping the integrity of code versions and smoothly re-integrating the product line upon acquisition. Senior Corporate Counsel, Global Enterprise Worked with Fortune 500 customers in XaaS, cloud, software and technology joint ventures. • Re-vamped Cisco’s global antitrust compliance program by devising and promulgating new global pricing guidelines to enable escalation of business terms that could cause antitrust risk for the company.• Led the conclusion of two of the company’s first significant international cloud-delivered contracts to be performed out of the UK with values over $50 million annual revenue.

Managed litigation, investigations and disputes, negotiated complex technology-based agreements in both private and public sector. Implemented corporate compliance requirements.

Member of technology practice group out of London, UK. Negotiated all manner of IT and IP related agreements, conducted pan-European regulatory reviews for telecommunications and software industry. Performed corporate restructuring for technology companies expanding into Europe.

Negotiated complex outsourcing, IT and telecommunications agreements in the U.S., Europe and Australia.

Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Member, Journal of International Law and Economics (first year)Top 25% of Graduating Class

Ba, Government

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