Founded and launched platform and marketplace for teachers to transform paper resources into mini-apps. Chief Executive Officer of a rapidly scaling business that grew by over 30x in 2020 without scaling failures, amidst rapid adoption by a majority of the largest school districts in the United States. Deep expertise in product strategy, intellectual property and privacy, with years of working with companies ranging in size from start ups to mega-corporations. Built a robust and loyal community of product champions. Set educational and design priorities using evidence-based research and user community outreach. Built a skilled an nimble team from 2.5 to 20 in six months. Collaboratively developed product strategy and roadmap, including privacy and security by design. Executed legal strategy including privacy by design, governance, compliance, intellectual property, transactions, tax, labor, privacy, fair practices, and advertising. Collaboratively designed and executed business development strategy.

Counseled a variety of Microsoft teams on copyright, trade secret, rights of publicity and related matters. Led restructuring of copyright registration, leak process reporting, and updating of processes after reorganization to provide repeatable, practical processes and solutions.

Strategic counselor to nearly every group in the company on copyright, trade secret, and related intermediary liability matters. Worked on cross-company teams to develop scalable, practical solutions, including standardized contract language, employee education, and competitive intelligence best practices. Developed international internal relationships to create the international policy practice of the Copyright and Trade Secret group. Provided thought leadership on copyright and intellectual property matters of strategic importance, working with domestic and international team members in legal, government affairs, litigation, business development, product management, worldwide sales, and other groups. Known for keen sense of which solutions address competing competition, policy, legal, business, and public relations realities and ability to navigate competing interests and lead teams to solutions. Areas of counseling included, but were not limited to international copyright concerns, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, secondary copyright liability, music issues, clean room development, and ownership. Presented on behalf of Microsoft at conferences and worked with key industry organizations on amicus briefs. Recognized as an expert in the field. Engaged with external policy makers and C suite executives on issues of importance to the company.

Provided copyright counseling and substantive legal analysis on issues such as ownership and assignability in the mergers and acquisitions contexts, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, secondary copyright liability, music issues, reverse engineering and clean room development, and strategy for litigation. Managed the firm’s copyright registration practice and developed integrated copyright programs for various clients. Evaluated agreements in the mergers and acquisitions context and drafted and negotiated agreements for high-technology and content provider clients. Advised on open source agreements. Representative clients included Good Technology, SonicBlue/ReplayTV, Napster, Intuit and Sun Microsystems.

Notable published opinions include Columbia Insurance v. Kumar (pre-service discovery re: anonymous defendant whose actions took place online); US v. Stephen Wilson (Confrontation Clause); and Dead Kennedys v. Jello Biafra (contract dispute between copyright owners).