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Chief Legal Officer ✦ Tech Sector Strategic Advisor ✦ Legal ExecutiveDuring my career, I've gained broad and diversified experience building and managing legal teams, driving legal strategy positioning businesses for commercial success without undue exposure, and establishing systems, standards, and processes that scale and expand in rapid growth environments. Joining Datapipe in 2007, I transitioned in-house and collaborated with the Datapipe board and exec team on legal, compliance, and operational issues setting the stage for global expansion and exponential growth. When Datapipe was acquired in 2017, I joined the Rackspace Technology team serving as VP, Deputy General Counsel, and managing all Sales and Supply Chain, IP and Legal Ops matters globally.During my Datapipe tenure, integrated 5 companies and operated an enterprise with 800+ employees and high-value assets including datacenter operations, technology, and other strategic targets.Successfully appeared before the Supreme Court of New Jersey; created an industry-first indemnification solution to support customers leveraging third-party public cloud infrastructure; developed strategy integral to global expansion. Career highlights:⇒ M&A INTEGRATION: Strategic assimilation of staff, technology, and assets for 5 acquisitions in the US and abroad as well as the integration of Datapipe into the Rackspace organization.⇒ COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE: Created full-stack E&O coverage providing indemnification of third party managed cloud clients across all major cloud infrastructure providers.⇒ CORPORATE STRATEGY: Advised and counseled senior leadership on complex organizational development and change management initiatives.Areas of Expertise Contract Development & Localization ✔︎ Managing Counsel ✔︎ Global Business Operations & Compliance ✔︎ Risk Identification, Management, & Mitigation ✔︎ Data & Privacy Compliance

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Contract Negotiation, Mergers And Acquisitions, Strategy, and 36 others.