Experience

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  American Seafoods

  • United States
  • Food and Beverage Manufacturing
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

    • Mar 2023 - Present

    Lead legal department, including safety, claims, and compliance teams, and serve as Corporate Secretary for world’s largest at-sea processor of Wild Alaska Pollock and Wild Pacific Hake feeding one billion people around the globe with wild caught, sustainable, and frozen-at-sea products.

  • Interim Head of Legal

    • Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Deputy General Counsel

    • Feb 2020 - Dec 2022

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  Foss Maritime Company

  • Director of Claims & Senior Counsel

    • Dec 2016 - Jan 2020

    Led claims and risk management teams and provided legal advice, business counsel, and risk management leadership for Foss Maritime Company and its subsidiaries--a family of marine transportation companies providing comprehensive marine transportation, logistics, technical, and engineering services with a fleet of over 100 vessels including industry leading tugs, barges, and specialty vessels and a state-of-the-art shipyard.

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  Icicle Seafoods, Inc.

  • Assistant General Counsel

    • Apr 2012 - Dec 2016

    Provided legal advice and business counsel to a large, diversified, and innovative seafood company with over $500 million in annual sales, approximately 2,200 employees in peak season, and operations including three processing vessels, a fleet of catcher vessels, a tow vessel, various barges, five shore-based processing plants, extensive aquaculture facilities in Puget Sound, and sales units located throughout the United States and overseas.

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  Keesal, Young & Logan

  • Attorney

    • Apr 2007 - Apr 2012

    Business-oriented legal practice including a wide variety of civil litigation and corporate advice. Broad maritime practice including investigating and litigating maritime casualties, marine pollution incidents, personal injury claims, cargo claims, and other traditional maritime matters. Practice also included commercial and real estate lending litigation, securities litigation, and employment and general corporate advice.