Ryan Souders Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Westlake Village, California, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

-As first GC, built/restructured team of 10 responsible for legal, healthcare compliance, privacy, IP, and government affairs for diagnostics, medical device, and healthcare company with three CLIA labs, which was founded in 2020 and delivered over 35 million COVID-19 tests and 2 million vaccines across ~40 states.-Hypergrowth: managed rapid growth, downsizing, and restructuring of company that grew from 7 to 7,000 staff in 18 months while focused on COVID, and quickly pivoted business model to launch integrated health plan (PPO) with provider network, pharmacy/PBM, TPA/URA, and in-house diagnostics. -Disputes/investigations: handled inquiries and audits from various governmental agencies as well as private-party litigation.-M&A: led diligence and negotiation of multiple acquisitions.-Physician-owned entities: in less than 6 months, built and dissolved national network of physician-owned practices, including entity formation, provider contracting, and physician interactions.-Legal operations: streamlined contracting process to ensure rapid negotiation of high-dollar agreementsand government contracts and tracking of thousands of outstanding contracts.

New York, New York, Us

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Commercial Lawyer, Patient Access Law Lead, Amgen Safety Net Foundation Board Member-Provided strategic and legal counsel for novel programs across Amgen products and charitable initiatives, focusing on patient access and organizational transformation in areas of healthcare fraud and abuse, products liability, antitrust, privacy, and other areas for commercial, corporate, and medical affairs.-Counseled business, medical and corporate affairs in all areas, including product launch, compliance, and in conjunction with subject matter experts, provided guidance on litigation, clinical trial issues, safety, and information sharing pursuant to SEC requirements.-Served on board of directors of Amgen Safety Net Foundation, a nonprofit patient assistance program that helps qualifying patients receive Amgen medicines at no cost, and provided legal support to the Access to Medicines initiative, which provides Amgen medicines to patients in lower income countries.-Focused on legal issues involving healthcare fraud and abuse, privacy, antitrust, product liability, FDA regulatory, and other areas for commercial, corporate, and medical affairs.-Conducted training and provided guidance on compliance policies and audit/monitoring plans.-Oversaw legal issues for the Amgen Tour of California and Breakaway from Cancer, and celebrity spokesperson contracting and satellite media events.-Supported sales and marketing activities related to oncology medicines and emerging reimbursement models. Marketed product brand assignments included Kyprolis and Xgeva/Prolia, including launching new indications and data.

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

-Counseled internal biotech clients on a broad range of commercial matters, including promotional and marketing legal and regulatory compliance.

Washington, Dc, Us

Civil Healthcare Fraud Coordinator, National Security Cyber Specialist-Investigated and litigated, as lead counsel, well over 100 complex civil and criminal cases in federal court, focusing on healthcare fraud and cybersecurity; handled matters involving bankruptcy, ADA-compliance, employment, torts, foreclosures, and appeals.-Conducted approximately 15 trials (10 felony jury trials in federal district court) as lead or co-counsel in Oklahoma and Virginia, including a 3-week arson and insurance fraud case involving 4 different insurance companies and dozens of witnesses.-Coordinated litigation and investigative efforts with main justice and more than 25 state and federal agencies and cybersecurity professionals at Fortune 500 companies.-Managed efforts of three paralegals and one legal assistant in multiple functional areas.Healthcare Fraud – Criminal and Civil-Investigated and/or litigated cases involving violations of the FDCA (misbranding of drugs and medical devices), mail/wire fraud, False Claims Act, Anti-kickback, and billing fraud, with the assistance of investigators, counsel, and experts with FDA, HHS-OIG, CMS, ZPIC, DOJ civil frauds, and the Oklahoma Attorney General. -Made decisions regarding intervention, litigation, and settlement.Cybsersecurity – Criminal and National Security-Prosecuted computer hacking case that NBC News called a “Massive Hacking Operation,” resulting in the guilty pleas of a former Navy systems administrator and another man for hacking 50 computer systems. -Counseled AUSAs and federal agents on gathering evidence and prosecuting crimes in compliance with evolving federal electronic evidence and privacy regulations, including ECPA, SCA, and CALEA.

Washington, Dc, Us

-Prosecuted violations of federal law, focusing on narcotics, firearms, and immigration offenses, but also dealing with a variety of other crimes. -Wrote responsive pleadings to direct appeals, habeas petitions, and a variety of motions. -Represented United States in reentry court, a transitional pilot program for supervised releasees.

Houston, Texas, Us

-Assisted in representation of CEO of WebMD’s Medical Manager Corp. who had been charged with money laundering and accounting and securities fraud. Representation ultimately resulted in dismissal of all charges. -Focused on white collar criminal defense and civil fraud. -Assisted in internal investigation related to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance. -Conducted several interviews in Spanish.

Plano, Texas, Us

-Marketing analyst for JCPenney.com.

Dublin 2, Ie

-Business process and marketing return on investment analyst.

Jd, With Honors

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Spanish

Smu Semester Study Abroad Program, Spanish

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