Michelle Ma Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, CA, US

Oakland, CA, US

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software and data to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. Major projects include CourtListener and RECAP.

• Industries served: AI, SaaS, food tech, e-commerce, B2C, and many others
• Commercial contracts drafting, negotiation and template creation. Vendor, sales, privacy, MSAs, referral agreements, B2B partnerships, consulting agreements, IP licenses
• Product counseling for the entire product lifecycle, from design to release and support. Marketing and sales collateral review, product roadmap review and compliance advising on specific features or feature sets.
• Business and legal strategy for growth and preparing for acquisition.
• Trainings on best legal practices with Sales, BD teams and other stakeholders for quick contract turnaround, from sales calls to contract generation, negotiations, and signaturehttps://www.michellemaesq.com/

San Francisco, CA, US

World-class operators investing in products we love. FOG Ventures was created to invest and support innovative founders that are helping create toolbox 2.0 for the modern day operator. We’re backed by the world's top COOs & CFOs at tech’s most prominent startups. We do not just invest in what we believe in — as active operators, we’re investing in products.

San Francisco, California, US

The Operators Guild is home to the world’s best operators. Together, we're building the fastest-growing and most innovative companies in the world. We're a members-only community for CFOs, COOs, founders, entrepreneurs, biz ops, and finance leaders. We empower the best company builders in the world throughout their career journey by offering connection and.

Building B2B software to review contracts for startups and tech companies and making recommendations for non-market terms.

Building a future where everyone understands what they're signing, a B2C contract review platform.

• Board Member of non-profit whose mission is to empower artists in the Bay Area Peninsula community and beyond, through professional development and provision of artist studio facilities. Responsibilities focus on.
• Marketing & Fundraising: Created New Artist Handbook for on-boarding new tenants at the Art Bias facility to share organization's policies, safety procedures, and other relevant information for studio tenants. Directed.
• Legal: Manage outside counsel and external consultants for employment, real estate, contracts, and employment law and HR best practices. Completed artist studio facility lease renewal negotiation on favorable terms for.

• Operations:
• Created and managed supply chain for domestic fulfillment center and Korea-based supplier. Set up and integrate ordering and payments back-end for Shopify website and fulfillment center for 500-person commercial launch.
• Set up and managed company internal operations (payroll, accounting, finance, benefits). Head of People functions include recruiting, interviewing and onboarding 3 FTEs and 5 contractors.Product:
• Worked with CEO to define product strategy and product roadmap for 2022. Set priorities with team and run product work sessions to ensure priorities and tasks are executed. Led strategy with CEO on signing partnerships.
• Built user flow and own key features of product system, including proteomics test kit, skincare kit, onboarding questionnaires on mobile app. Refined customer persona through market surveys that resulted in 70-80%.
• Created patent strategy appropriate for early stage startup. Led patent application process for first patent encompassing product system. Created internal process for documenting inventions. Led regulatory risk.

Oakland, CA, US

• Operations & Product:
• Created business model and product roadmap for Pilot Program and ongoing R&D for future product features. Set 2021 company goals and milestones for product development and customer acquisition. Defined product.
• Worked with CEO to close first paying customer, a well-known Napa-based vineyard and winery. Updated investor pitch deck to emphasize product solution, competitors, market size, and market validation. Sales:
• Created and implemented Pilot Program strategy for prototype product. Created and implemented sales model for Pilot Program.
• Created sales pipeline of customers based on prior contacts and enthusiastic customers.
• Closed first paying customer at major vineyard.Funding:

Took time off for creative projects, non-profit work, and travel. Took courses in black and white film photography (developing and printing, all by hand in the darkroom), resulting in two public art exhibits and customer sales. Created and curated online presence to draw followers. Winner of international photography competition for travel photography.

San Francisco, California, US

• Ran all Commercial operations by overhauling Sales contract templates, generating training materials and leading trainings for 95-person Sales team, resulting in >1 month faster to signature. Ran GDPR compliance.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Counseled technology companies on copyright, commercial licensing, and product matters, working closely with C-level executives, Engineering and Product leaders. Managed and ran teams performing due diligence on.
• Represented undocumented immigrants applying for U-Visa and U-Visa Adjustment of Status.
• Highlight: Obtained green cards for U-Visa client and her teenage son seeking to Adjust Status as permanent residents, allowing them to continue working and studying in the Bay Area.Speaking Engagement, May 2016: Panel.

Drafted bench memoranda for variety of civil cases, including intellectual property, multidistrict litigation, to habeas corpus petitions.

Milpitas, CA, US

• Worked with attorneys to refine invention disclosure form and process
• Attended invention disclosure meetings with patent attorneys in ASIC and Packaging, determined patentability and application filing for disclosed inventions
• Reviewed existing patent portfolio with an eye to budgeting maintenance fees for strategic patents

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Intellectual Property Law

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering -- Combustion