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Co-Chair, Corporate GovernancePartner, Corporate My practice includes advising technology companies and investors in the range of transactions and events that they regularly confront, ranging from counseling public and private companies in corporate, securities, corporate governance and compliance matters, as well as initial public offerings mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings and intellectual property licensing. I have advised clients across a range of technologies, and find learning about new technologies and emerging industries the most rewarding part of what I do.In 2004, I served as interim Chief Compliance Officer of InVision Technologies, Inc. during the course of its 2004 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation and initial integration into GE, giving me a great deal of hands-on experience with legal compliance programs as well as practically experience dealing with the DOJ and SEC. Education University of California, Davis, J.D., Order of the Coif, Phi Kappa Phi, Symposium Editor of the Journal of International Law & Policy, 1997University of Buffalo, State University of New York, M.B.A. in corporate financial management and management information systems, 1991 and B.S. in business administration, 1990 Prior to law school, I ran IT for a mid-sized company based in Silicon Valley. In 1991, I was also commissioned as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, where I served as a signal officer, a communications security officer and a psychological operations officer. Representative Clients: Chegg Cloudera DocuSign Glu Mobile Imperva MetricStream Tekion WorkdayI author the Fenwick & West annual Corporate Governance Survey and Proxy Season Results Survey, which cover a variety of corporate governance matters and trends for the companies included in the S&P 100 Index and the high technology and life science companies included in the Silicon Valley 150 Index.Specialties: Emphases in Corporate Governance, Start-Up/Financings; Public Offerings/Securities/Compliance; Mergers and Acquisitions

Listed skills include Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Mergers And Acquisitions, Venture Capital, and 21 others.