Biography
I am a member in good standing of the California State Bar. I hold a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts degree, with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brandeis University.
I
opened my private practice in mid-2003. Since that time, I have
represented a variety of technology companies, helping them to conduct
their day to day business and negotiate their key relationships.
Those companies range from the very small to the very large, and
have included software-as-a-service companies, advertising networks, software
and hardware consulting services companies, online content and community providers,
independent game developers, cloud infrastructure providers, and enterprise software vendors.
Before opening my private practice, I was Vice President of Business
Development at BroadLogic Network Technologies. In that
position, I was a member of the management team responsible for turning
the company around from a position with far more debt than assets and
two pending lawsuits to zero debt, settlement of both lawsuits on
favorable terms, and an employee-friendly recapitalization and new
financing led by Cisco Systems. That turnaround included face
to face negotiations with the Cisco investment team, as well as
negotiations with multiple parties of the terms of sale and multiple
licenses of the legacy intellectual property and assets after all
relevant personnel departed, bringing in over $2M of operating capital
and debt forgiveness. I handled those negotiations and directly managed
the actual transfer of legacy assets to purchasers and licensees.
In my business development capacity, I developed market strategy and
presentations to introduce BroadLogic's technology to direct customers
and market makers. I presented the technology and the company to
partners, customers, and investors, including regular presentations to
the Board of Directors regarding information on market conditions,
status of and progress in business relationships. Last, I was
responsible for budgeting and supervision of transactional and
intellectual property outside counsel, and shared responsibility with
our CTO for determining IP strategy, including the patent incentive program
for the engineering team. I also developed the company's forms,
including NDAs, consulting agreements, and purchase and sale documents,
with a focus on consistency, brevity, and ease of use.
Prior to joining BroadLogic, I was an associate in the intellectual
property and transactional practice of Fenwick & West LLP, a
leading Silicon Valley law firm, where I acquired extensive experience
in semiconductor core licenses, custom development agreements, foundry
agreements, and corporate acquisitions. I counseled clients
on the development and protection of intellectual property, market
strategies, technology partnerships, and establishing standards-setting
consortia, working on hundreds of complex transactions with many
reaching multi-million dollar valuations for both public and private
clients.