Experience

Pelago

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet

• General Counsel

  • Jun 2022 - Jul 2023

  London, New York We are a digital clinic providing telemedicine care for substance use management combining technology via our app and connected devices, cognitive behavioral therapy, and medication assisted treatment to achieve better outcomes and lower recidivism at lower costs.



Modernizing Medicine

• Software Development

• Vice President and Senior Deputy General Counsel

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2022

  Boca Raton, FL, USA

• Vice President & Deputy General Counsel

  • Mar 2015 - Mar 2017

  Boca Raton, FL



Gilead Sciences

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Nov 2014 - Jan 2015

  Foster City, Ca Consultant on structuring and negotiating complex IT/IP/data agreements, clinical trial support services, cloud-based marketing initiatives and patient support programs.



White & Case

• United States
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Counsel

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2014

  Washington, DC - Focused on more nimble, scalable technology arrangements such as cloud, aaS and multi-supplier panels, including innovative governance regimes and risk management strategies, especially for global financial institutions. - Awarded 1st place by the Financial Times in the "Lawyers to the Innovators" category of the 2013 Legal Innovation report for the multi-supplier panel structure and governance designed for Best Buy's IT outsourcings. - Social media and digital content deals to develop… Show more - Focused on more nimble, scalable technology arrangements such as cloud, aaS and multi-supplier panels, including innovative governance regimes and risk management strategies, especially for global financial institutions. - Awarded 1st place by the Financial Times in the "Lawyers to the Innovators" category of the 2013 Legal Innovation report for the multi-supplier panel structure and governance designed for Best Buy's IT outsourcings. - Social media and digital content deals to develop new versions of mobile social networking apps distributed across LATAM and Europe and for Science Friday to move from NPR to PRI. - Contract manufacturing and supply chain sourcing arrangement in China to develop and introduce a new product line in the U.S. - Data protection and privacy counseling. Show less



Alston & Bird LLP

• Counsel

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2010

  - On the ground lead in Sydney for a strategic advisory project for Australia's largest bank on the commercial models, risk mitigation and adoption strategies for migrating to cloud/aaS services. - Restructured the North American telecommunications services arrangements for a Global Fortune 10 petrochemicals company.



Latham & Watkins

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Partner

  • Jun 2003 - Aug 2009

  - External IP lead for a Global Fortune 10 petrochemicals company in solving the Board's #2 issue on its global "Top Ten Most Wanted" problems list by selling a patent-intensive, financially challenged 50/50 joint venture, including restructuring a complex web of in- and out-patent licenses to enable the sale and creation of an innovative patent trust to hold the company's patents as a bankruptcy-remote entity. - A global initiative to rationalize and re-source a foreign-based global bank's… Show more - External IP lead for a Global Fortune 10 petrochemicals company in solving the Board's #2 issue on its global "Top Ten Most Wanted" problems list by selling a patent-intensive, financially challenged 50/50 joint venture, including restructuring a complex web of in- and out-patent licenses to enable the sale and creation of an innovative patent trust to hold the company's patents as a bankruptcy-remote entity. - A global initiative to rationalize and re-source a foreign-based global bank's telecommunications operations and services, including reducing the number of suppliers from over 70 to 5 and outsourcing select functions with the result of exceeding the targeted 30% p.a. cost savings. - Structured a co-opetition strategic alliance between two erstwhile competitors for one to develop and supply a "private label" version of its on-road trucks for the other to enter a new market. Presented particular challenges because our client had never wholesaled before. - Telecom outsourcing for one of the UK's largest banks to transform to IP telephony, and a series of multi-tower ITOs for a southern African country's revenue and customs service. - Private equity and other M&A deals, especially in the telecom and technology sectors. Show less



Shaw Pittman (now part of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman)

• Partner

  • Jan 2000 - May 2003

  Washington D.C. Metro Area - 10 years as a core member of a small team acting as in-house counsel supporting all aspects of customer-facing business and internal operations for a global, publicly traded software development and IT services company. Embedded in cross-border, cross-functional sales pursuit teams; whole life cycle customer negotiations; escalation point for contracts administrators; teaming agreements and prime/subcontracts with partners; in-licenses for technology embedded in products and services;… Show more - 10 years as a core member of a small team acting as in-house counsel supporting all aspects of customer-facing business and internal operations for a global, publicly traded software development and IT services company. Embedded in cross-border, cross-functional sales pursuit teams; whole life cycle customer negotiations; escalation point for contracts administrators; teaming agreements and prime/subcontracts with partners; in-licenses for technology embedded in products and services; co-branding/distribution arrangements; general corporate matters; and compliance (e.g., export control, transfer pricing). Customers spanned the Americas, Europe and Middle East. - As part of one of the larger restructurings in the telecom industry when SITA sold Equant (now Orange Business) to France Telecom (FT), structured and negotiated the agreement by which the network's operations, assets and licenses were to be transferred country-by-country, including pending regulatory approvals. The network operated in more countries than there are members of the U.N. - Numerous IT outsourcings (ITOs), business process outsourcings (BPOs), other technology transactions and general corporate matters (e.g., entity formation, corporate governance and financings). Particular depth in financial institutions and health care verticals. Show less



Shaw Pittman

• United States
• Legal Services

• Associate

  • Oct 1990 - Dec 1999

  Washington D.C. Metro Area See above.