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Senior legal executive at leading semiconductor company responsible for entire legal function and reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

Senior legal executive responsible for all Intellectual Property licensing and technology transactions, reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Responsible for management of seven-person transactions team with both domestic and international direct reports.Responsible for public securities reporting and compliance. Responsible for implementation of corporate GDPR compliance regime and guiding creation of legal processes across the enterprise for both semiconductor and software divisions.

Senior legal executive at Toptal, LLC, a company with a rapidly growing network comprised of some of the most talented digital designers and software engineers in the world, distributed across the globe, that provides companies with those elite designers, engineers, and teams on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis for any web, mobile, or desktop technology stack or design environment.Responsible for all aspects of the corporate legal function, including corporate governance, regulatory compliance, commercial transactions, intellectual property matters and employment law.

Vice President of Legal at Tanium, Inc., an enterprise software company at the forefront of security and systems management, and reporting to the CFO and COO. Sole internal lawyer responsible for all aspects of the company legal function, including commercial licensing, partnership and vendor contracts, new hire and employment matters, sales compensation plan design and corporate legal matters.

Senior Director-level attorney (promoted from Director in December 2009) advising publicly-traded, multi-national networking company, and reporting directly to the Vice President and General Counsel. Technology Transactions and Securities Compliance. Responsible for all legal, SEC and SOX matters related to transactions, including strategic initiatives, in-bound and out-bound licensing and sales transactions (commercial and governmental), data privacy, global trade compliance and commercial litigation. Responsible for legal matters related to rollout of cloud, NFV and SDN initiatives and member of Governing Committee related to software strategy and compliance. Member, Risk Factors roundtable, responsible for guidance on quarterly risk factors for inclusion in 10-Q and 10-K filings.Management Responsibilities. Responsible for management of sixteen member commercial team, including six attorneys, seven contract administrators/negotiators, Facilities Security Officer and global trade team. Mergers and Acquisitions. Key member of team responsible for negotiating every Brocade M&A deal since 2005, including: $756M Brocade-McDATA merger, $2.3B acquisition of Foundry Networks and acquisition of cutting edge technologies for SDN (Vyatta) and NFV (Vistapointe). Responsible for all legal planning matters related to integration of legal functions and processes following close of all transactions.Employment Law. Responsible for the Global Employment Law function, including recently announced global reorganization/restructuring and ongoing global employment litigation.Recognitions. Finalist, Silicon Valley Business Journal 2013 Corporate Counsel of the Year (Large Public Company division).

Member of three attorney legal team, and member of company leadership team, advising publicly-traded mobile software company, and reporting directly to Chief Administrative Officer. Business Development and Engineering. Responsible for all legal matters related to Business Development (including relationships with primary online store vendor), Product Marketing and Product Engineering. China M&A Expertise. Responsible for legal matters related to diligence and acquisition of China Mobilesoft Limited in 2004. Following acquisition, responsible for all Asia Pacific legal matters and integration activities. Intellectual Property Matters. Responsible for creation and implementation of patent prosecution and portfolio strategy, open source policies and procedures, export control and patent litigation matters, including management of outside counsel.

Associated with leading law firm in the Technology Transactions Group, focusing on the representation of emerging growth and public and private high technology companies. Mergers & Acquisitions. Substantial experience in technology and intellectual property transactions in connection with complex strategic relationships and mergers & acquisitions. Assisted with creation of standard Intellectual Property terms for Internet focused strategic transactions.Technology Transactions. Represented numerous technology-focused start-ups and ventures in all aspects of technology licensing and distribution agreements, development and outsourcing relationships and strategic technology ventures, including creation and negotiation of various types of technology agreements.

Associated with solo patent and technology licensing practice, with specific emphasis on representation of international technology companies in the negotiation of strategic technology transactions and patent licenses.

Associated with business litigation firm, specializing in securities, intellectual property and complex business litigation. Particular experience in federal patent, securities, trademark, trade dress, copyright, antitrust and defamation matters.