Dan Gerken Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Columbus, Ohio, United States

I am Senior Associate General Counsel for Americas at Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global critical infrastructure provider with operations in more than 130 countries that generated $5 billion in revenue in 2021. As senior general counsel for U.S., Canada, and Latin America, I provide legal counsel on a variety of matters, including commercial transactions, litigation, and regulatory compliance.My duties are wide-ranging, including:- Negotiating high-volume master sales agreements with key data center customers, governing hundreds of millions in sales annually.- Managing outside litigation counsel decisively to resolve disputes promptly and under budget.- Managing and mentoring a team of attorneys and contract administrators who review tens of millions in sales contracts each month.- Advising senior engineers on long-term product planning and regulatory compliance issues.- Spearheading cross-departmental responses to product issues to ensure short- and long-term solutions safely reduce risk and maximize customer satisfaction.Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally, and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling, and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 23,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio Area

Columbus, Ohio Area

Lawyer in the Energy & Utilities group. Practiced energy, environment, and land use litigation.

Worked with Dean Phyllis Goldfarb and other legal clinic faculty to manage and assist student-attorneys in GW Law's nine community legal clinics; oversaw intake for the Civil and Family Litigation Clinic

Served as legal intern to The Honorable Joseph E. Beshouri of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Served as legal intern for the Intake, Prison Legal Services, Appeals and Post-Conviction sections of the Office of the Ohio Public Defender.

Devised, implemented, and tracked successful strategies for leasing high-end apartments and selling luxury condominiums at an award-winning, historic apartment community in central Columbus.

Investigated suspected incidents of unemployment compensation benefits fraud, based primarily on comparisons of benefits disbursed with additional information from employers and the public. Exceeded all expectations for efficiency and quality with regard to traditional workflow, and initiated and instilled a new online resource for research at the fraud division.

Oversaw database and physical records of over 16,000 active files for this reputable Cleveland law firm. Assisted individual attorneys on litigation research projects and implemented strategies for more efficient and productive records management.

J.D.

Activities and Societies: Dean's Fellow, Recipient of The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Scholarship, Student Director of Burns.

M.A., Philosophy

Activities and Societies: University Fellow, Graduate School

B.A., Philosophy & Political Science (Summa Cum Laude, With University Honors)

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa; University Honors; Finalist for Truman Scholarship; Winner, Robert Goodwin Book Award; Co-Chair.

Post-Graduate, Piano Performance

Activities and Societies: Studied piano under Paul Orgel, Grammy-nominated classical pianist.Enrolled for post-graduate semester between.

Diploma