One of four DGC direct reports to the General Counsel of $10B Fortune 500 company with 45K+ employees. Lead diverse team (Senior Attorneys, support staff and outside counsel) overseeing all IP and certain commercial matters. Design and drive IP strategy and deliver commercial/legal counsel to company businesses that provide diagnostic services across multiple disease areas.* Board Engagement: Developed and presented company’s first IP strategy to full Board and annually update Board subcommittee on IP.* IP Global Portfolio Transformation: Drove effort to build global IP portfolio and transformed IP from function with 25 pending patents to strategic IP portfolio of 1000+ issued patents.* Strategic Commercial Support: Provide strategic legal commercial support for Clinical Solutions and Molecular Genomics & Oncology service lines.* Enterprise Revenue Strategy Leadership: Evaluate and report on IP risks/opportunities to C-suite and other stakeholders enterprise wide. Identify opportunities to leverage and license IP assets and support/drive innovation, entry into new commercial areas, and creation of new revenue streams.• Business Partner: Collaborate with business and clinical leaders to enable innovation while managing legal risk.• AI Governance• Companion Diagnostics Strategy Development: Designed business plan and assisted with implementation to help enter then-emerging companion diagnostic testing industry. • Out-Licensing Leadership: Conceived, initiated, and led new out-licensing effort.* Strategic Cost Savings and Avoidance: Developed and implemented strategy to reduce IP licensing costs.* Leadership: Member of Legal Management Team and Company Leadership Forum.• Legal Team: Developed, recruited, and retained high performance team focused on client service.

Counseled and represented pharmaceutical, biotech, and software companies regarding IP strategy and patent matters. Independently developed $500K book of IP business.Complex IP Dispute Win (Electron Image Arbitration): First-chaired and won 5-day arbitration against top nationwide IP trial attorney (1999 American Arbitration Association Case #73 Y 133 00089 98 NEM).

Supported and led patent litigation and prosecution cases. Conducted 50+ depositions of Fortune 500 executives and scientists.* California Supreme Court: Wrote winning brief petitioning California Supreme Court for a writ (1996 Cal. LEXIS 6623).* American Honda / Federal Court: Co-authored winning brief in federal court, dismissing 8-figure claim against AmericanHonda (822 F. Supp. 625 (N.D. Cal. 1993)).