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San Francisco Bay Area

Solving the really big customer problems using High Concentrator Photovoltaic Solar Power systems aka "HCPV"Associating the highest value use cases with the highest efficiency solar power.Intelligent Solar is developing Solar SwapSpot, an off-grid consumer marketplace and social network powered by solar HCPV.Introducing Solar Bucks, a solar-backed parallel currency for the common man.Since starting the company in 2009, I have accomplished the shift from lawyer to systems architect and filed multiple patent applications for object-oriented system software class libraries to support new consumer marketplaces.Intelligent Solar is promoted by Leland Fund and is a successor company to Unified Grid LLP. ARPA-E Control Number 25A4368_Unified Grid.

San Francisco Bay Area

Founded and direct this activist hedge fund for private equity. The fund's innovative debut product for accredited investors is a "credit default swap" equivalent referencing solar energy and solar power. Minority ownership stakes available.For information contact info@lelandfund.com

San Francisco Bay Area

Sole in-house counsel while company was being incubated at Palo Alto Research Center PARC with Series A venture capital funding led by New Enterprise Associates, the world's largest VC.In 2007, achieved $32M Series B funding, combined with a simultaneous $31M Series A European Raise, for a total venture capital raise of $63.6MSolFocus was a pioneer in Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) Solar Power technology using non-imaging optics and glass mirror-based concentrators to focus sunlight equivalent of 500 suns on multi-junction solar PV cells. CPV solar panel arrays are mounted on dual-axis trackers in regions like California with high direct sunlight DNI.Completed strategic cross-border Solar Tracker acquisition to penetrate Europe with next-generation CPV solar solutionsOversaw the Intellectual Property area, responsible for concluding valuable exclusive patent licenses with university and corporate research partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Litigation Partner in Intellectual Property. This East Coast Am Law 100 firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. Recruited to help K&L Gates expand its Intellectual Property practice to the West Coast and help K&L Gates establish a Silicon Valley law office.

Palo Alto, Ca

Achieved partner status and advised top public companies in Silicon Valley as outside counsel, amassing customer affidavits in support of 250+ Mergers & Acquisitions valued > $75 million. Adhered to highest levels of integrity and ethics in all business dealings.Litigated IP cases and developed proactive licensing agreements to protect software industry clients. Examples: Successfully represented Sun Microsystems in a $1.6B JAVA copyright case against Microsoft Corp.; represented Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in trade secret theft case against competitor Avant!, ultimately resulting in a $265M payment to Cadence. Played substantial role in Precedent-Setting Internet Litigation. Helped obtain injunction to shut down robotic spiders that crawled eBay's site. The judgment, in favor of eBay, subsequently strengthened risk management for all online web sites. Pioneered the effective use of "innovation markets" in defense of technology monopoly.Conceived of solutions to problems no one believed could be solved. Example: Created open access and interconnection settlement to resolve antitrust objections to Electronic Design Automation Software acquisitions. Engineered favorable Consent Order for Cadence Design Systems, Inc., which the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved on 3-to-2 vote.

Palo Alto, Ca

Practice primarily encompassed defense litigation representing Silicon Valley software companies threatened by Microsoft Corporation. Managed a full case load of complex litigation cases with focus on proactively using discovery, economic and technical experts and industry witnesses. My specialties included obtaining critical customer affidavits to win approval for large contested mergers between competing public technology companies.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Securities law practice advising leading investment banks and LBO funds. Emphasis on preparing SEC documentation for hostile takeovers and cash tender offers, managing leveraged buyouts, and resolving debt-financing issues. Played substantial role in hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco by KKR.

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: Co-Founder and Editor, High Technology Law Journal renamed Berkeley Technology Law JournalAuthor, The National.

A.B., Public Policy

Awarded Stanford University's first undergraduate degree in Public Policy. Individually-designed curriculum including classes.