Christopher Fey
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LinkedIn User
Christopher is highly skilled professional in all fundamental aspects of business and legal processes. His enthusiasm and willingness to tackle any project helped Deem achieve great success. He is very detail oriented and produces great results on various topics with customers, partners, acquisitions, etc. Christopher is natural leader and pleasure to work with; He would be a great asset to any company.
Scott M. Shell
Christopher is both a professional colleague and a personal friend of more than four years. His uncompromising work ethic and disciplined, focused approach to his job make it as simple as it is pleasant to work directly with him. On numerous occasions, my Operations organization has needed detailed legal counsel in order to proceed with crucially important vendor and customer relationships and contracts. At each iteration, Christopher was able to provide precisely correct guidance in a timely manner. His knowledge and mastery of the law as pertinent to contract negotiation, e-commerce, and intellectual property is as thorough as I have encountered in my professional career in Silicon Valley. In addition to being a well-qualified attorney, he is a consummate gentleman. It is with superlative enthusiasm that I recommend Christopher to any and all business associates in need of his extensive expertise.
LinkedIn User
Christopher is highly skilled professional in all fundamental aspects of business and legal processes. His enthusiasm and willingness to tackle any project helped Deem achieve great success. He is very detail oriented and produces great results on various topics with customers, partners, acquisitions, etc. Christopher is natural leader and pleasure to work with; He would be a great asset to any company.
Scott M. Shell
Christopher is both a professional colleague and a personal friend of more than four years. His uncompromising work ethic and disciplined, focused approach to his job make it as simple as it is pleasant to work directly with him. On numerous occasions, my Operations organization has needed detailed legal counsel in order to proceed with crucially important vendor and customer relationships and contracts. At each iteration, Christopher was able to provide precisely correct guidance in a timely manner. His knowledge and mastery of the law as pertinent to contract negotiation, e-commerce, and intellectual property is as thorough as I have encountered in my professional career in Silicon Valley. In addition to being a well-qualified attorney, he is a consummate gentleman. It is with superlative enthusiasm that I recommend Christopher to any and all business associates in need of his extensive expertise.
LinkedIn User
Christopher is highly skilled professional in all fundamental aspects of business and legal processes. His enthusiasm and willingness to tackle any project helped Deem achieve great success. He is very detail oriented and produces great results on various topics with customers, partners, acquisitions, etc. Christopher is natural leader and pleasure to work with; He would be a great asset to any company.
Scott M. Shell
Christopher is both a professional colleague and a personal friend of more than four years. His uncompromising work ethic and disciplined, focused approach to his job make it as simple as it is pleasant to work directly with him. On numerous occasions, my Operations organization has needed detailed legal counsel in order to proceed with crucially important vendor and customer relationships and contracts. At each iteration, Christopher was able to provide precisely correct guidance in a timely manner. His knowledge and mastery of the law as pertinent to contract negotiation, e-commerce, and intellectual property is as thorough as I have encountered in my professional career in Silicon Valley. In addition to being a well-qualified attorney, he is a consummate gentleman. It is with superlative enthusiasm that I recommend Christopher to any and all business associates in need of his extensive expertise.
LinkedIn User
Christopher is highly skilled professional in all fundamental aspects of business and legal processes. His enthusiasm and willingness to tackle any project helped Deem achieve great success. He is very detail oriented and produces great results on various topics with customers, partners, acquisitions, etc. Christopher is natural leader and pleasure to work with; He would be a great asset to any company.
Scott M. Shell
Christopher is both a professional colleague and a personal friend of more than four years. His uncompromising work ethic and disciplined, focused approach to his job make it as simple as it is pleasant to work directly with him. On numerous occasions, my Operations organization has needed detailed legal counsel in order to proceed with crucially important vendor and customer relationships and contracts. At each iteration, Christopher was able to provide precisely correct guidance in a timely manner. His knowledge and mastery of the law as pertinent to contract negotiation, e-commerce, and intellectual property is as thorough as I have encountered in my professional career in Silicon Valley. In addition to being a well-qualified attorney, he is a consummate gentleman. It is with superlative enthusiasm that I recommend Christopher to any and all business associates in need of his extensive expertise.
Experience
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Betterworks
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head Of Legal
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Jan 2022 - Present
Betterworks is committed to developing best-in-class HR talent management solutions aimed at enabling exceptional performance by putting employee experience at the heart of how companies align, motivate, retain and develop their people. Ours is the only enterprise-ready performance solution, proven to support companies with fewer than a thousand employees all the way to hundreds of thousands. A recent study showed employees that use Betterworks report higher job satisfaction and eNPS than those using other solutions. And the results speak for themselves – the Betterworks community breaks retention benchmarks other software providers dream of reaching.
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SAP
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Germany
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Legal Counsel
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Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
• Primarily worked on domestic and international sales contracts with high dollar ($150k - $5M) value.• Successfully negotiated numerous complex agreements with high profile customers, including major banks, government, and medical institutions, having challenging and specific requirements.• Single-handedly covered nearly seventy sales reps; worked on over one hundred software-as-a-service (SaaS) deals in a single month at quarter end / year end.• Advised non-legal internal clients on reasons for various contractual provisions.• Frequently resolved issues regarding personally identifiable information (PII), including those related to state laws, PIPEDA, and the GDPR.
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Deem, Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Associate General Counsel
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Feb 2007 - May 2017
• Provided wide-ranging legal counsel to a SaaS technology corporation, focusing on travel, expense, and spend management. • Prepared and negotiated various agreements, particularly licensing and sales, in a deadline-driven environment. • Worked with Finance and Sales to analyze all new customer deals from a business perspective on a weekly basis.• Handled personnel issues, litigation, collections, and various other matters.• Performed due diligence for the acquisition of six companies.• Negotiated multiple commercial leases in numerous states.• Managed domestic and international privacy of PII and security issues and standards, such as PCI-DSS and SSAE 16.• Oversaw wide-ranging litigation matters, such as infringement, collections, and breach of contract.
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Sole Practitioner
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2003 - 2007
• Provided general legal counsel to various high-tech clients, focusing on transactions, licenses, and privacy.• Performed legal services for feature film productions, primarily inbound and outbound IP.• Advised, drafted, and negotiated contracts, including NDAs, software licenses, service contracts, partnership agreements, and shrink-wrap licenses. • Provided general legal counsel to various high-tech clients, focusing on transactions, licenses, and privacy.• Performed legal services for feature film productions, primarily inbound and outbound IP.• Advised, drafted, and negotiated contracts, including NDAs, software licenses, service contracts, partnership agreements, and shrink-wrap licenses.
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Chief Legal Counsel
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2001 - 2003
• Served as general counsel to an enterprise software corporation for all aspects of business and corporate law. • Prepared and negotiated various agreements, particularly licensing and sales. • Registered and maintained trademarks and copyrights.• Handled personnel matters, leases, and a wide range of issues. • Served as general counsel to an enterprise software corporation for all aspects of business and corporate law. • Prepared and negotiated various agreements, particularly licensing and sales. • Registered and maintained trademarks and copyrights.• Handled personnel matters, leases, and a wide range of issues.
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ClickAction Inc.
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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General Counsel
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2000 - 2001
• Drafted, analyzed, and negotiated all manner of agreements for email marketing company. • Managed and supervised both outside and internal counsel.• Dealt with consumer privacy issues, trademark registrations, personnel matters, debt collection, leases, and M&A. • Drafted, analyzed, and negotiated all manner of agreements for email marketing company. • Managed and supervised both outside and internal counsel.• Dealt with consumer privacy issues, trademark registrations, personnel matters, debt collection, leases, and M&A.
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Education
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Pepperdine University School of Law
J.D. -
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Pitzer College
B.A., Psychology
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