Business-focused corporate attorney with more than a decade of expertise providing litigation and commercial advisory services as both in-house and outside counsel. I am an agile learner and trusted advisor to numerous business units. As Senior Director for Risk Management and Dispute Resolution at GitLab, and previously as Director of Litigation at CrowdStrike, I have a track record of driving positive outcomes in litigation, disputes and related matters for publicly-traded, hyper-growth industry leaders. A dedicated and collaborative partner with executives, managers, and their teams, I can manage multiple projects simultaneously while achieving effective and efficient results. While at CrowdStrike, I was proud to have collaborated with an outside counsel trial team in defeating a nine-figure arbitration claim, and helped drive a favorable settlement of six-year intellectual property dispute resulting in removal of litigation risk disclosures from public filings. As Assistant General Counsel at Hallmark with responsibilities for litigation and licensing, I drove cost savings and fostered a strong internal knowledge base through the ability to deliver end-to-end litigation services and strategy, while representing Hallmark’s transactional interests with attorneys and executives with leading content providers such as Disney and Viacom.My private practice career was highlighted by important victories. I was a key member of the 2011 German May trial team that won the then-largest collectible verdict ($373 million) in Missouri history. I was also part of teams that secured dismissals of multi-million dollar claims on behalf of defendants and affirmed such dismissals in state and federal appeals courts. At Weil Gotshal, I helped my team earn a defense verdict for a leading health care company in antitrust bundling case following a six-week jury trial, and worked with a multi-national financial services company to achieve dismissals on several class action claims in cases arising out of foreign transaction fees. I was also deeply involved in antitrust matters, including performing merger analyses in concentrated industries.
Listed skills include Commercial Litigation, Class Actions, Civil Litigation, Arbitration, and 9 others.