Eric Strait Email & Phone Number

California, United States

South San Francisco, California, Us

• Head of the Legal Operations function at Denali, which includes Contracts, Paralegal, and Records functions.• Legal function leader for Denali’s internal Development law practice, including the management of clinical trials and close working partnership with Denali’s Regulatory and Clinical Operations functions.• Responsible for Denali’s legal compliance in areas related to privacy and commercial activities for the Development organization.• Senior leader of the Legal department, reporting to the General Counsel. Responsible for assisting in establishing corporate legal strategy and overall legal compliance efforts within the organization.• Assist and lead corporate compliance matters, such as records retention, document management, new hire legal training, and the drafting of compliance policies. • Negotiate collaborations with partners across academia, industry, and non-profit organizations in partnership with the Business Development team.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

• Headed negotiation and drafting of complex services agreements, including commercial terms related to strategic collaborations with Amyris’ partners.• Leader of the business and commercial contract process across Amyris, including material transfer, confidentiality, consulting, HR and IT service and other legal agreements.• Identify and implement process improvements, including (i) the sourcing and creation of a new contract management database for the organization; (ii) the development of a comprehensive, company-wide document retention policy; (iii) establishing and implementing a signature authority matrix as well as rules and process for the approvals of all contracts within the organization.• Update existing contract templates and draft new legal agreements (e.g. Common Interest, 3-way collaboration, bank/financing and settlement agreements) as needed for the business.• Streamline the RFP process by providing agreements and organizing input from the various business stakeholders.

Foster City, Ca, Us

• Managed an 8 person contracts and outsourcing team within Clinical Operations. • Created and managed overall vision for team, including developing tactical plans, new policies and process as well as metrics to measure overall success and impact of the group.• Devised and led strategy to manage increasing demands for outsourcing and vendor services. New strategy has resulted in enhanced customer service and quicker overall contract cycle times.• Responsible for overseeing contract agreements whose total values are in excess of $150MM.• Negotiated and executed contracts with service providers and consultants. Overall cost savings to Gilead in the first two quarters of 2011 was approximately 14% of anticipated project/study costs.

South San Francisco, California, Us

• Managed 15 direct reports responsible for preparing and negotiating agreements with medical institutions to run various clinical trials. • Improved the overall impact of the Genentech Contracts group by implementing better process and increased accountability resulting in better communication with our business partners and faster overall turnaround times.• Developed and implemented initiatives designed to improve internal Roche/Genentech processes resulting in more cohesion between the merged contracts groups, improved contract turnaround times across the new combined organization and a more cohesive process across the new organization. • Responsible for forecasting the budget and resource allocation for division.• Promoted to Senior Manager in 2008 during Roche merger.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Primary Legal Department contact for reviewing corporate contracts ranging up to $45MM. • Negotiated and finalized contracts for various corporate departments, including but not limited to Purchasing, Corporate Sales, eCommerce and IT.• Created standardized contract templates in order to realize department efficiencies and cost savings for the company.• Sourced and implemented a low-cost database management program to develop detailed internal electronic system of contract management.• Developed company policy for review of all agreements in excess of $500K.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Juris Doctorate, Law

Undergrad, History