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Newton, MA, US

Foster City, California, US

Chief Legal Officer for Coupa, the trusted leader in Business Spend Management (BSM), helping organizations make every dollar matter. Coupa’s AI-driven platform delivers visibility, control, and real-time insights to drive operational excellence for organizations of every size and scale.

Boston, MA, US

Responsible for all legal affairs. On Belay supports independent primary care physicians in their quest to access meaningful value-based contracts and provides the clinical support necessary to succeed and maintain their independence. Co-founded by a physician, we empower physicians to not only retain independence, but realize their full potential both.

Responsible for all legal affairs for a global SaaS company delivering software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. Led a team of 26 delivering the full range of legal services worldwide, focused on growing the Company and achieving its strategic goals. Drove a successful reorganization, spin-out and IPO; scaled.

Cambridge, MA, US

Led a team that negotiates a wide variety of agreements related to the Institute’s sponsored research activities (non-Federal), including sponsored research agreements between MIT and corporate sponsors; fellowships; foundation grants; materials transfer agreements and other agreements, both domestic and international. Responsible for improving the ease.

• Services included:
• Temporary General Counsel service
• Contract negotiation, drafting and process review/management
• Day-to-day legal matters; management of outside counsel
• Discrete transactions; M&A; partnerships; joint ventures; financings; IPO preparation
• Corporate governance & secretarial matters

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Led Legal and Compliance functions for global public software company delivering an application development platform and several process management solutions. Responsible for a substantial organization that delivered the full range of legal services, worldwide, focused on advancing the Company's strategic, field and other business goals. Helped to create.

Schaffhausen, Switzerland, CH

Led Legal function for a leading global provider of backup, disaster, recovery and security software which protects IT systems and data - physical, virtual and in the Cloud. Joined in September and during a very hectic year drove several critical initiatives, including the redomestication of the corporate parent from Bermuda to Switzerland, and the.

Boston, MA, US

General Counsel for public company delivering medical image and information management (PACS) and practice management solutions, for imaging centers, ambulatory care facilities and radiology practices.Joined in the middle of the Company's acquisition of a larger public company in a complementary market space. Closed that transaction, and engineered a very.

Waltham, MA, US

General Counsel for on-demand SaaS provider of Internet website monitoring services - in the infrastructure space. Joined in November '07 and led preparations for an IPO - the Company filed its S-1 Registration Statement in May '08 and was subsequently acquired by Compuware.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Retained by IBM for a year following the acquisition of MRO Software by IBM. Executed on the transition, providing leadership to MRO employees and securing the delivery to IBM of the intellectual and human capital that it had acquired. Sucessfully worked within a Fortune 50 environment, and effected a smooth integration of people, IP and contracts.

US

Responsible for all Legal affairs for a mature enterprise application software company delivering solutions for the maintenance and management of physical assets such as manufacturing plants, aircraft and facilities. Acquired several companies, implemented Sarbanes-Oxley, and successfully dealt with some relatively large dollar litigation. MRO was acquired.

US

Led the Legal function for this global technology solutions company which originally delivered industrial-strength authoring and document management software. Hired at a time when the Company was in trouble, with active litigation, shrinking revenues and broken processes. I was part of the core leadership team that executed a turnaround, including.

Redwood City, California, US

Retained by BroadVision following the acquisition of Interleaf by BroadVision. Transitioned institutional knowledge to BroadVision as the acquiror of Interleaf, and hired new Division Counsel for BroadVision.

Formerly named OneWave, Primix marketed an end-to-end Internet application devlopment, deployment and back-end connectivity solution. Joined the Company as it was preparing to go public, and had attracted a dream team of executives, investors and advisers. Drove preparations for the IPO, revamping the legal infrastructure, contracts and related processes.

US

Second lawyer hired at Marcam, responsible for all operational support, with heavy emphasis on customer agreements. Also drafted and negotiated distribution, inbound technology, joint venture and other operational agreements, and supported management generally. Learned the fundamental skillset of working with salespeople and customers, negotiating multiple.

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