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California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

• High growth Series C startup with 125+ employees.
• Handle all legal matters, including employment, compliance, corporate matters, data protection, real estate, go-to-market, and procurement.

San Ramon, CA, US

• General Counsel through March 2024.
• Early stage high growth SaaS startup company that primarily manages data integration in the cloud.
• Focused on both horizontal and vertical growth, as well as providing legal and business guidance on other issues, primarily transactions, privacy, cybersecurity, open source, and regulatory guidance.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• 4th ranked law school in the nation for intellectual property, per U.S. News and World Report.
• Teaching Technology Licensing, as per course description (below), with an emphasis on SaaS transactions. Link: https://law.scu.edu/scheduled_classes/technology-licensing-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2/

• URL: https://hyperion.legal
• Solo law practice providing legal services, primarily in technology law. Formerly Erudite Consulting, Inc.
• 25+ clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies and venture capital funds.
• Issues handled include transactions (MSAs, DPAs, NDAs, etc.), cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, blockchain, intellectual property, open-source software, process and policy improvement, regulatory.

Prilly, Canton De Vaud, CH

• High growth (50% YoY in 2021-22) unicorn B2B SaaS startup with over $1b valuation, $200m in annual revenue, and 1,000+ employees specializing in Digital Employee Experience (DEX) software.
• Led and scaled a global legal department of 12+ employees; interfaced with C-suite and Board of Directors.
• Rebuilt commercial transactions process, resulting in 75% decrease in response times.
• Rebuilt and led the Partner Ecosystem and Public Sector programs, resulting in 250% increase in sales through partners.
• Led privacy program; interacted with the CCPA and EU on cybersecurity and AI regulatory issues.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Public B2B SaaS company with $2b in annual revenue, and 7,000+ employees specializing in electronic document signature and contract management technologies.
• Supported transactions, primarily in the partner ecosystem (reseller, partner, distributor, etc. motions) and Public Sector (SLED) areas.
• Processed and closed 900+ legal cases in 11 months, per Salesforce metrics.
• Transactional types include Master Services Agreements, Master Partner Agreements, FedRAMP related deals, BAAs, DPAs, SOWs, dozens of different kinds of addenda and attachments.
• Experience in Privacy and Information Security (IRT, IRP, etc.) areas.
• Contracted via Paragon Legal for first four months.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Public B2B hardware, software, and SaaS company with $5b in annual revenue, and 10,000+ employees specializing in networking technology.
• Built and led NPI (“New Product Introduction”) program and associated Product Legal discipline, including managing a team (of 7-8 employees) for all 25+ product lines. Included management of diligence and compliance.
• Lead attorney for several divisions at company, including Silicon, Services (high margin), Security (high growth) and Junos (company’s flagship software product).
• Helped manage company-wide open-source program, which included 10,000+ components and 1,000+ requests per year.
• Licensing (inbound and outbound), procurement, and M&A support.
• Led and managed multiple and varied process improvement projects within Legal Group, such as refreshment of company template agreements, new workflows for negotiations resulting in reduction of over 25% in execution.

• Nonprofit dedicated to the Sikh principle of universal justice.
• Pro bono legal support.

• Wholly owned subsidiary of public defense contractor with over $50b in annual revenue and 200,000 employees.
• Spearheaded efforts (from legal and business aspects) to monetize intellectual property that resulted in increase of IP related revenue from 0% to as high as approximately 40% of company’s profits since 2004.
• Managed both Supply Chain and Contracts teams of 30+ contract professionals. Streamlined processes, improved operations, increased profits by 5%, and helped company pass its first DCMA (“Defense Contract Management.
• Managed invention process and IP portfolio (~100 patent filings; ~1,000 invention disclosures), as well as IP aspects of research and development activities.

US

• Public defense contractor with over $200m annual revenue and 1,000+ employees; Applied Signal Technology, Inc. acquired by Raytheon Company in 2010, becoming Raytheon Applied Signal Technology, Inc.
• Managed team of 12+ senior contracts professionals.
• Negotiated over $600m of contracts; heavy experience in federal regulations, including FAR and DFARS.
• Increased profitability of government contracts by over 10%, resulting in additional profits of over $6m.
• Reduced outside legal costs by over 50% by bringing trademark prosecution, management of patent prosecution and various other matters in-house.
• Built and maintained company’s intellectual property portfolio (~100 patent filings; ~1,000 invention disclosures) and managed patent prosecution and litigation matters.

• Specialized in financing of single family residences.

San Diego, US

• Rebuilt and managed intellectual property databases, which included over 1,000 patents and trademarks.
• Heavy emphasis on due diligence, document review and compliance.

US

• Assisted in prosecution of several patents.
• Reviewed invention disclosures.
• Researched relevant fields of art.
• Helped develop intellectual property strategies for various companies.

• Handled contractual and intellectual property related duties in boutique law firm.
• Drafted, negotiated and reviewed license, development, employment, non-disclosure and lease agreements.
• Provided assistance on various immigration matters, such as federal court discovery, appearances at status conferences, and other transactional work with the INS.
• Wrote several legal memoranda and briefs, and often accompanied attorneys to court for assistance and support.

US

• Responsible for administration of mostly Government contracts.
• Handled all duties involved with proposal pricing in Contracts Department of telecommunications defense contractor.
• Received numerous promotions, salary adjustments, bonuses and various other honors.

J.D., Intellectual Property

B.S., Biological Sciences

High School