General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for leading data co-operative - direct and digital data. Manage compliance team for state privacy laws (CCPA, etc.) opt-outs, right to know, risk assessments, etc.; and FCRA. Manage SOC2 and other third party privacy and security audits. Oversee all other legal matters, commercial agreements, litigation management, intellectual property, employment and more.

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary & Chief Privacy Officer for leading venture capital backed, online programmatic advertising technology (AdTech/MarTech), ad exchange, data and marketing platform company ACQUIRED by WebMD June 2021. Manage all legal matters including; contracts, intellectual property, litigation, privacy, outside counsel management, employment matters, data management, corporate governance, legal strategy, due diligence, negotiation, international, corporate policies and more. Lead mergers and acquisition efforts through identification of targets, negotiation, diligence and closing. Matters include interest based behavioural targeted advertising, data collection (PII, PHI, health and more), ad exchanges, demand and supply side platform, Digital media and advertising experience includes DMPs, advertising segments, "programmatic" advertising, media supply agreements, tech platform agreements, ad serving platforms, data, privacy, PII, PHI, and client and vendor agreements related to digital media. Board Secretary and key member of senior leadership team. Implemented contract management system, litigation management, GDPR compliance, CCPA, HIPAA, member NAI and DAA, COPPA, CAN-SPAM, corporate compliance, corporate housekeeping and best practices. Goal setting, and team management. Trusted advisor, team player, business, revenue and bottom line focus.

Attorney/Board Advisor - ImageRights International is an online provider of services to identify and manage infringement rights claims on behalf of commercial photographers, photo agencies and publishers. Imagerights.com

Strategic advisor to online content management and event listing company. Viafrance.com, viaeuropa.com, Lagenda.com. Clients include Eurostar, Accor Hotels, Air France and more. Successful sale of company in 2016.

Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and corporate development professional for Nasdaq listed Mediabistro.com's online community of Web Blogs, Web sites, Online Education, Research, Trade Shows, Events and related services for media and social media professionals. In-house attorney responsible for all company legal affairs and corporate development. Extensive negotiation and contract drafting including a wide variety of commercial agreements such as digital advertising (display, banner, mobile, native advertising, programmatic, RTB, content marketing) content, hosting, technology, licensing, e-commerce, partnerships, mobile, non-disclosure (NDAs), contractors, vendors, services, leases and more. Responsible for all mergers and acquisitions (all phases), divestitures and joint ventures. Manage intellectual property portfolio (trademarks and domain names - acquisition, compliance and enforcement), SEC public company reporting and corporate and board governance, dispute resolution, litigation and outside counsel management, employment matters, regulatory compliance, draft and update privacy policy and web site terms, DMCA and EU data protection safe harbor compliance and general legal advice. Responsible for all privacy matters including CAN-SPAM, COPPA, and more. Lead corporate development including identification of acquisition targets and the negotiation, closing and managing the acquisition and integration of 15 blogs, Web sites and other assets (U.S. and international); development and launch of a leading e-commerce design site; negotiation, closing and launch of a strategic investment in a German social media analytics company; acquisition of Web sites in France, United Kingdom, Croatia and Hungary. The acquisition, development and licensing of leading analytics research data; negotiation of enterprise licenses and domestic and international joint ventures/revenue sharing deals in UK, Brazil and other countries.

Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel responsible for all in-house legal affairs for publicly traded Nasdaq online/digital media company and network of Web sites (jupitermedia.com, jupiterimages.com and internet.com ) including drafting, negotiating and reviewing various commercial agreements (services agreements, NDAs, consulting agreements, license agreements, advertising agreements, publishing, sales and more), mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property (trademarks and domain names - acquisition, compliance and enforcement), manage dispute resolution, litigation and outside counsel management, employment matters and more. Rights clearance, model and property releases and distribution agreements. Senior development professional working on matters including business development and creation of 3rd largest digital media content company - Jupiterimages via identification of targets, negotiation, management related to acquisition of over 20 diverse U.S. and international, digital image and music companies. Multiple deals in the U.S., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and more; Lead, analyze, draft and participate in all aspects of $90m sale of business to Getty Images (including successful anti-trust testimony before FTC); extensive negotiation of photo, image, art and music content licensing agreements, rights agreements and advertising agreements. International employment matters and compliance. All legal and development work for internet.com network of Web sites - online advertising agreements, licensing, web site and privacy terms, DMCA and EU data protection safe harbor compliance.

General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer. First in-house attorney - created in-house legal function and managed all aspects of legal department for leading Internet media company - Internet.com. IPO and Company sale. Responsible for all legal affairs including drafting, negotiating and reviewing various agreements (services, NDAs, consulting, license, advertising, publishing, sales and more), mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property/trademarks, domain name management, manage dispute resolution, litigation and outside counsel, employment matters, Initial Public Offering (IPO), acquisitions, contracts, IP, corporate, litigation management, real estate, venture capital and more. Business Development and Management including identification of acquisition targets and extensive negotiation, drafting, and closing of acquisitions of 30 Web sites creating largest network of Internet technology Web sites and largest B to B Internet media company; Management of development and licensing of Hiermenus software application; Management of international tradeshow/conference joint ventures and licensing in over 30 countries for World’s fastest growing tradeshow brand – Internet World; Manage and lead launch of international magazine and Web site licenses and joint ventures (VNU publishing) in 20 countries including france.internet.com, uk.internet.com, de.internet.com and more; Manage, draft and participate in all aspects of $278m company sale to Penton Media; and senior business and legal manager for internet.com venture fund for Internet and online start-ups. IPO June 1999

Senior Commercial Counsel - U.S. legal department of Paris, France based manufacturing and energy company. Responsible for a wide variety of commercial agreements, general legal advice on contracts, employment, licensing, regulations and more. Litigation management and training. Working with France based legal department.

Associate attorney in corporate, litigation and real estate groups. Negotiate agreements, draft pleadings, research and real estate. Clients included health care, manufacturing, retail and marketing.

Litigation Associate. Prepare and draft court pleadings, research, document production, depositions, discovery and attend court hearings.

Legal clerk for Judge Joel Flaum. Research, writing, court proceedings.

Auditor large public accounting firm.