Rejoined Vianai CEO, previously SAP Board Member and CTO, at AI/ML startup to identify and resolve legal and operational issues by collaborating with cross-functional leaders and manage all company intellectual property. • Partner with product, technology/engineering, data science, research, client project, privacy, security, operations, marketing, sales, and finance teams to meet legal, regulatory, and business requirements for bringing cutting-edge artificial intelligence products, including generative AI, machine learning, causal inference, and performance optimization, to market, and to support custom AI development and strategic consulting.• Built IP strategy and awareness training, manage patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret portfolios, IP budget, and outside counsel, and resolve disputes.• Developed company policies, including generative AI policy, established open source scanning and penetration test program, and implemented human resource processes, including managing all employee offboarding activities. • Analyze potential acquisition targets and conduct due diligence.• Negotiate third-party proposals and legal agreements. • Selected and implemented AI-based contract lifecycle management system.• Contributed legal justification for privacy/security software business case, and assessed pros and cons of top options, OneTrust and DataGrail.• Serve as key member on leadership internal audit task force to achieve SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications.

Guided senior legal department leaders in the identification and resolution of people, process, and technology problems that prevented transformational improvement in effectiveness and efficiency. Served as a member of Factor’s leadership team, tasked with shaping, communicating, and implementing company direction.

Guided Deloitte’s expansion from professional services into hybrid products, served as legal lead for technology transformation of regulated global business, increased focus on intellectual property (IP), and assessed legal technology to maximize effectiveness and efficiency, and add value to the business.

Selected by SAP Board Member/CTO for new dual-reporting (technology/legal) role responsible for ensuring timely release of future-critical innovation products while mitigating key risks and transforming legal processes at the world’s leading provider of enterprise software.

Led IP strategy and standards efforts, coordinated response to IP piracy in Asia-Pacific region, and provided primary legal support for three in-house startups.

Litigated intellectual property disputes and counseled Fortune 500 technology clients related to IP issues.

Served as part of an ITC patent trial team, prepared IP cases for trial, and provided IP counseling for technology clients.