Leadership• Lead the legal department of a global manufacturing company with over 2,200 employees.• As a member of the executive team, drive company growth by facilitating business relationships, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, and maintaining legal and regulatory compliance.Strategic Business Counseling• Partner with commercial and functional stakeholders at each of the company’s global locations to provide creative, solution-based and business-focused legal advice.• Maintain knowledge of industry trends and practices. Provide advice regarding implications of changes in laws that may impact the business and the industry.Commercial and Corporate Work• Successfully negotiate and provide advice on a full spectrum of contractual and transactional matters, ranging from global supply agreements to government grants to joint development contracts, with an eye towards company growth.Legal and Ethical Compliance• Empower employee decision-making by building training modules and conducting seminars on legal concepts and developments, including in the areas of confidentiality, cyber security, global trade and intellectual property.• Create tailored policies to ensure legal compliance and maintain best practices. Litigation• Manage all company litigation, including commercial, product liability, employment and intellectual property litigation.• Provide advice on threatened claims to avoid litigation and settle disputes.

• Led all day to day matters of the legal department. • Drove continuous improvement across the function and the organization by instilling best practices to drive growth and maintain legal and ethical compliance. • Managed the company's intellectual property portfolio.

• Facilitated a cultural shift across the organization to focus on intellectual property, including by designing self-reliant processes and systems designed to protect the company’s intangible assets.• Oversaw the company’s patent portfolio of over 300 active patents and applications. Maintained the patent budget and worked to drive down cost. Managed the trademark portfolio.• Ensured protection of trade secrets by instilling best practices around confidentiality and enforcing noncompete and confidentiality agreements against departing employees.• Assisted with the day to day work of the legal department, including contract negotiation, labor and employment, and compliance activities.

• Manage and participate in all aspects of intellectual property and general commercial litigation, focusing on patent litigation.• Work with clients in a variety of technical fields ranging from biotech to materials science to software.• Provide client counseling on various intellectual property and contractual issues.