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New York, Ny, Us

Short Hills, New Jersey, Us

New York, New York, Us

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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Short Hills, New Jersey, Us

Hoboken, New Jersey, Us

- Oversaw Knewton's legal affairs worldwide and providing strategic business advice and risk management across the organization.- Supported and mentored business development and sales teams in drafting and negotiating legal and commercial terms of strategic SaaS partnership agreements for Knewton's adaptive learning platform and institutional sales agreements for Knewton's online courseware at universities.- Functioned as chief privacy officer by providing internal guidance and counsel to product,engineering and security teams around evolving federal, state and international data privacy laws. Proactively monitor and provide external input to privacy thought leaders and legislators around privacy regulatory trends that present risk to the company. Created and implemented Knewton's global privacy framework and lead ongoing training, compliance and oversight of remediation efforts.- Internally managed and negotiated all aspects of company’s capital raising transactions, including Series multiple venture capital and debt financings and investor-led employee liquidity program.- Performed all corporate governance and equity management duties such as drafting board resolutions and minutes, maintaining and interpreting company’s bylaws, charter and stockholder agreements, maintaining and updating capitalization table, global option plan and agreements, 409A valuations and stock transfer documentation. Ensured compliance with all relevant laws and internal policies and maintenance of all necessary licenses and certifications.- Managed and provided guidance on all aspects of intellectual property matters affecting Knewton.- Managed and implementing legal, tax and regulatory advice related to international operations and successfully established 3 international subsidiaries (UK, Japan and China).

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Advised senior management at emerging growth companies throughout their lifecycle from formation, capital raising transactions (venture capital and debt) and liquidity events, as well as on corporate governance issues, equity compensation strategies, day-to-day contract matters, technology licensing and strategic partnership agreements, and employment and consulting agreements. - Managed various aspects of M&A transactions (public/public, public/private and private/private), including coordinating cross functional deal teams, drafting and negotiating definitive acquisition documents, drafting disclosure schedules, conducting diligence review, and preparing U.S securities filings.- Additional experience with initial and secondary public offerings of common stock and providing guidance to public companies on periodic disclosure obligations in compliance with U.S. security regulations.

San Jose, California, Us

- Developed and optimized process parameters for a novel laser reaction deposition process to produce optical coatings and nano-powders. Supervised members of R&D team throughout development lifecycle. - Managed several processing steps in an optical chip production line, including supervising five technicians for day-to-day operations.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

- Participated in New College Grad (NCG) Rotational Program by completing work assignments in engineering, manufacturing and sales. - Worked on film development, process optimization, and customer film qualifications for several film chemistries using PECVD and thermal CVD technology. - Co-developed a patented next generation low-k dielectric film.

J.D., Law

B.S., Materials Science Engineering

Education record