Tech executive with an interdisciplinary business, engineering, and legal skillset. Pragmatic, roll up your sleeves approach working with senior executives and consistently delivering successful, results-oriented, practical legal and business solutions. Experience includes managing teams of varying sizes, complex, international commercial, technology, supply chain and strategic alliance transactions; regulatory compliance; product counseling; privacy; information security; business and corporate development deals; M&A; intellectual property; litigation; government affairs; employment; open source; data governance & protection.In my role with Sorensen Communications, I led risk mitigation for this communications solutions provider. In addition to overseeing matters relating to intellectual property and privacy, I also managed external counsel, led litigation efforts, and liaised with regulators. Some of the significant accomplishments of my career include the following:• Serving as Sorenson’s Interim General Counsel and leading the company through a time of transition and uncertainty.• Developing a comprehensive privacy program and maintaining regulatory adherence to privacy laws in Europe [GDPR] and California [CCPA/CPRA], supporting US, EU, UK, and Canada operations. • Enabled continuation of a business with $500M+ annual revenue by managing litigation that overturned an adverse $44M patent infringement judgment, including appeals to US Supreme Court and Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit. If you would like to discuss how I can further assist you, please contact me via LinkedIn.Specialties Corporate Governance | Regulatory Compliance | Information Privacy | Patent & Trademark Law | Litigation Management | Trademark Law | Copyright Law | General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] | Legal Review & Analysis | Data Governance | Outside Counsel Management | Risk Management | Partnership & Alliance Cultivation | Change Leadership
Listed skills include Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Patents, Copyright Law, and 15 others.