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The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Eric Kwan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Locus Ventures
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About Applied Intuition, Ironclad, Lob, Locus Ventures, Meesho, Notable Labs, Razorpay, Standard Cognition: Locus Ventures is a seed fund that invests in passionate founders looking to build important, world-changing companies.
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Perry Tam
Founder & Managing Partner of Locus Ventures
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David Foley
Sr. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Energy Partners of Blackstone Group
David I. Foley is a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Energy Partners. David Foley is based in New York and is responsible for overseeing Blackstone’s private equity investment activities in the energy & natural resource sector on a global basis. Since joining Blackstone in 1995, David Foley has been responsible for building the Blackstone energy & natural resources practice and has played an integral role in every private equity energy deal that the firm has invested in, including: Premcor, Kosmos Energy, Foundation Coal, Texas Genco, Sithe Global Power, OSUM Oil Sands, PBF Energy, Global Offshore Wind, GeoSouthern, Alta Resources, Moser Baer, Cheniere and LLOG Exploration. Before joining Blackstone, David Foley worked with AEA Investors in the firm’s private equity business, and prior to that served as a consultant for the Monitor Company. David Foley received a BA and an MA in Economics, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Northwestern University and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
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Michael Petryczenko
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Strategic Partners of Blackstone Group
Michael A. Petryczenko is a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Strategic Partners, Blackstone’s secondary private fund of funds business, which was acquired from Credit Suisse in August 2013. Michael Petryczenko is involved with overseeing the financial reporting, tax structuring and treasury operations related to Strategic Partners’ secondary private equity funds. Before joining Strategic Partners, Michael Petryczenko was the Tax Manager for the Peabody Fund, an opportunistic real estate fund jointly managed by J.P. Morgan and The O’Connor Group. Prior to joining the Peabody Fund, Michael Petryczenko was a Tax Manager at Ernst and Young, LLP in the Real Estate Group. His clients included DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and SL Green Realty Corp. Michael Petryczenko received a BS in Accounting from St. Francis College, New York and an MS in Taxation from Pace University, New York. He subsequently earned the C.P.A. designation.
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Dennis Henner
Operating Partner of Blackstone Group
Dennis Henner is an Operating Partner in Blackstone Life Sciences group, having joined Blackstone as part of its acquisition of Clarus in December of 2018. Prior to joining Blackstone he was co-founder and Managing Director of Clarus for 12 years beginning in 2005 with the firm’s inception. Dr, Henner has over 30 years of direct industry and investment experience within the healthcare sector, and has led investments in the biopharmaceutical sector including partnerships with pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Clarus, Dr. Henner was a General Partner at MPM Capital, a healthcare venture capital firm. From 1981 to 2001, he was an executive at Genentech where he held various positions including Senior Vice President of Research, and was a member of Genentech’s executive committee. Dr. Henner is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Forty Seven Inc. (NASDAQ: FTSV) and Imago BioSciences. Dr. Henner received his PhD from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia and did postgraduate training at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. Dr. Henner is a member of the Board of Trustees of Reed College.
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James Quella
Senior Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner of Blackstone Group
James Quella has been a director since December 2009. Quella was a Senior Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner in the Corporate Private Equity group of The Blackstone Group until June 30, 2013. Quella was responsible for monitoring the strategy and operational performance of Blackstone portfolio companies and providing direct assistance in the oversight of large investments. He was also a member of the firm’s Private Equity Investment Committee. Currently, James serves as a Senior Advisor to the Private Equity Group of Blackstone and continues to be involved in a few key portfolio companies as a board member and executive advisor, as well as participating in selected portfolio review processes and due diligence. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2004, Quella was a Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners-CSFB Private Equity. Prior to that, Quella worked at Mercer Management Consulting and Strategic Planning Associates, its predecessor firm, where he served as a senior consultant to CEOs and senior management teams, and was Co-Vice Chairman with shared responsibility for overall management of the firm. Quella received a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago/University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA with dean’s honors from the University of Chicago. He is also the co-author of Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from the Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business. Quella has been a member of various private equity company boards and currently, in addition to Catalent, serves as a Director of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Michaels Stores, Inc., and DJO Global.
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Lilya Tessler
Partner, NY head of FinTech and Blockchain Group of Sidley Austin
Lilya Tessler focuses her practice on regulatory, general corporate and business issues related to US and non-US broker-dealers, financial services firms, blockchain projects, cryptocurrency funds and financial technology companies. Lilya advises broker-dealers and technology companies throughout the start-up phase. She also counsels financial institutions with day-to- day securities issues, private placement agent requirements, custody rule requirements, cross-border regulatory issues, policies and procedures for implementation, FINRA and SEC regulatory inquiries, as well as mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate matters. She also advises several US and non-US FinTech companies, including robo-advisors and high-frequency trading firms in evaluating the broker-dealer and investment advisor registration requirements. Lilya is a certified public accountant, FINRA dispute resolution arbitrator, and holds FINRA Series 7 and 24 licenses.
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Mehdi Khodadad
Partner of Sidley Austin
MEHDI KHODADAD’s practice focuses on representing leading technology and life sciences companies and their private equity and other investment sponsors. He counsels corporate clients, entrepreneurs and investors on a wide variety of transactions, including private and public financings, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and related private equity transactions, cross-border and other structured corporate transactions. Mehdi also regularly advises the boards of directors, management and special committees of corporate clients and their investors on a wide variety of securities law and corporate governance matters. Mehdi was recognized by the American Lawyer as a “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2015 for his work on one of the 20 most significant transactions that year. In 2015 he was also named one of the Daily Journal’s “Top 20 Lawyers Under 40.” Mehdi earned a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he was awarded the High Tech Law Certificate in intellectual property law and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Tony Feuerstein
Partner, M&A of Sidley Austin
Mr. Feuerstein provides clients with general corporate and securities law advice. In addition, he has served as corporate counsel in bankruptcy and workout transactions and restructurings, including representing official and informal creditors committees, out-of-court restructurings and exchange offers, and sale transactions of distressed companies in chapter 11 proceedings. Mr. Feuerstein joined Akin Gump in 2008. He previously was an associate at a major New York based global corporate law firm. Prior to law school, Mr. Feuerstein worked for two years as an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Vijay Sekhon
Partner of Sidley Austin
VIJAY SEKHON is a partner in Sidley’s Century City office and a member of the M&A, Private Equity and Securities practice groups. His practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales and reorganizations of public and private companies, public equity offerings, public debt issuances, private placements of debt, and equity for public and private companies, and general corporate and securities law. His client list includes: Franklin Templeton Investments, The Blackstone Group, L.P., Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Inc., Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., Universal Studios Japan, Domino Printing Sciences plc, Z Capital Partners, L.L.C., Siris Capital Group, LLC, Glendon Capital Management LP, Castle Creek Capital LLC, ZelnickMedia Corp., HoldCo Asset Management LP and Paladin Healthcare Capital LLC. Vijay served as senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2009 to 2011, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He was a judicial intern for former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Vijay has published numerous articles related to law, business and finance in respected academic and practitioner journals, including the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Securities Regulation Law Journal, the Real Estate Finance Journal, and Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, and has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine each year since 2013. Vijay earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley. Vijay is also a licensed real estate broker in the state of California and a member of the Financial Lawyers Conference.
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Geoffrey Levin
Partner of Sidley Austin
GEOFF LEVIN concentrates his practice on complex business transactions and governance matters for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. His representations span a variety of industries, situations and enterprise values, having counseled clients on domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going private transactions, proxy contests, spin-offs, joint ventures, recapitalizations, venture capital financing, growth equity investments, senior and junior debt financings, restructurings and workouts. Geoff’s representations have covered a broad range of industries including life sciences, financial services, communications, energy, retail, automotive and heavy industrial. Geoff regularly comments on developments in the healthcare industry and speaks at investment conferences. He is the author of “New M&A Concerns and Strategies” that recently appeared in Aspatore Books Inside the Mind series. He is listed by IFLR 1000 as a leading M&A lawyer and has been recognized by Institutional Investor News as one of the “10 Rising Stars of Private Equity and M&A Law” and by Mergermarket as a 2009 “Dealmaker of the Year.” Prior to joining Sidley, Geoff was a partner at another global law firm. Geoff received his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Minnesota, where he was executive editor of the Journal of International Economic Law & Policy, and a B.B.A., with high distinction, from the University of Michigan. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
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Alan Raul
Founder & Partner of Sidley Austin
Alan Raul is the leader and founder of Sidley’s highly-ranked Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice. He represents companies on federal, state and international privacy and technology matters, including global data protection and compliance programs, cybersecurity, Big Data, online consumer protection issues and Internet law. Raul’s practice involves litigation and counseling regarding consumer class actions, FTC, state attorney general, Department of Justice and other government investigations, enforcement actions and regulation. He previously served as Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and in the White House as Associate Counsel to the President.
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David Denechaud
Partner of Sidley Austin
DAVID DENECHAUD focuses his practice on private equity and oil and gas transactions, and represents a wide range of clients in the oil and gas industry, including those in the exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services and alternative energy sectors. He frequently helps private equity sponsors and related portfolio companies to partner with other capital sources and to buy and sell companies. He also works with management teams and operating companies seeking to obtain private equity capital. David’s broad transactional practice involves the representation of private and public companies in financial and strategic acquisitions and dispositions, financings, contests for corporate control and securities issues. He has extensive experience with leveraged and management buy-outs, recapitalizations, public and private securities offerings and financing transactions.
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James Cahan
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Robert Carlson
Partner of Sidley Austin
Robert Carlson is a partner in Sidley’s Palo Alto office where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, representing corporations as well as private equity and venture capital funds. Rob’s practice also includes representation of private equity fund sponsors and investors in connection with the formation and operation of private equity funds, and representation of issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. He also counsels boards of directors and committees on corporate governance matters. His industry focus includes working with companies and investors in the medical device, biotechnology, software, e-commerce, payments, telecommunications and gaming industries. Rob has been featured in Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law (2016), Northern California Super Lawyer (2016) and in Who’s Who Legal for Mergers and Acquisitions (2016). He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Adam Weinstein
Partner, M&A of Sidley Austin
ADAM WEINSTEIN represents large-cap and middle-market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in leveraged acquisitions, mergers, strategic investments, growth financings and similar transactions. For the last 20-plus years, Adam has served as a trusted adviser to a mega-cap private equity fund and its affiliates and portfolio companies in many of its complex, global leveraged buyout/carve-out transactions and public company acquisitions. Adam is also actively involved in advising private equity investors in the management of their portfolio companies, including: liquidity events, including private sales and public offerings, add-on acquisitions and investments, divestitures, strategic joint ventures and alliances liquidity rights, including drag-along rights, forced sale arrangements, tag-along rights, put and call rights, rights of first refusal and rights of first offer corporate governance rights, including board election rights, board and board committee composition and board and shareholder voting rights, including minority and other shareholder protections day-to-day executive compensation, labor and employment, environmental, tax, intellectual property and litigation matters Adam is recommended in The Legal 500 U.S. 2017–2018 for M&A: Middle-Market
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CARTER G. PHILLIPS
Partner of Sidley Austin
CARTER G. PHILLIPS is the chair of the firm’s Executive Committee and was the managing partner of its Washington, D.C. office from 1995 to 2012. He served as a law clerk to both Judge Robert Sprecher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the United States Supreme Court. Carter also served as Assistant to the Solicitor General and argued nine cases on behalf of the federal government in the United States Supreme Court. Since joining Sidley, he has argued 71 cases in the Supreme Court. His total of 80 arguments before that Court are the most of any lawyer currently in private practice. Carter also has argued more than 100 cases in United States courts of appeals, including at least one in every Circuit in the country, and more than 25 in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Jared Jensen
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Mark Kaufmann
Partner, Tech and IP Transactions Practice of Sidley Austin
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John Butler
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Joe Flack III
Partner of Sidley Austin
JOE FLACK focuses his practice on oil and gas transactions. His substantial upstream representations include sellers and buyers in acquisitions and divestitures, borrowers and lenders in reserve-based lending transactions, and grantors and grantees in conveyancing transactions. He also has lead various diligence examinations with regards to property and title issues. In addition, Joe has represented multiple different parties in midstream matters, including gatherers and producers/shippers in gathering agreements, and processors and producers in processing agreements.
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David Hoffman
Partner & Global Co-Head of White Collar Litigation and Investigations Practice of Sidley Austin
David Hoffman is Board of Director at Better Government Association.
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Pam Martinson
Partner of Sidley Austin
Pam Martinson is Partner @ Sidley Austin LLP.
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David Hoffman
Partner & Global Co-Head of White Collar Litigation and Investigations Practice of Sidley Austin
David Hoffman is Board of Director at Better Government Association.
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Jared Jensen
Partner of Sidley Austin
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John Butler
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Joe Flack III
Partner of Sidley Austin
JOE FLACK focuses his practice on oil and gas transactions. His substantial upstream representations include sellers and buyers in acquisitions and divestitures, borrowers and lenders in reserve-based lending transactions, and grantors and grantees in conveyancing transactions. He also has lead various diligence examinations with regards to property and title issues. In addition, Joe has represented multiple different parties in midstream matters, including gatherers and producers/shippers in gathering agreements, and processors and producers in processing agreements.
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Michael Metzger
Partner, Media & Tech Investment Banking of Drake Star
Michael Metzger is an award-winning media and tech investment banker with over 25 years of experience advising on M&A and financing transactions as well as serving Internet and tech companies in operating and corporate development roles.
Some of Michael’s most notable transactions include the sale of Echtra Games to Zynga, Firefly Studios to Devolver Digital, FreshPlanet / SongPop to Vivendi / Gameloft, Slightly Mad Studios to Codemasters, nWay to Animoca, Lightstream to The Vitec Group, EyeEm to NewValue, Avira to Investcorp, Slacker Radio to LiveXLive, SRS Labs to Xperi, Creators Media to Webedia, JumpStart Games to NetDragon, OUYA to Razer, WGT Media to TopGolf, Schematic Labs to Napster, Hearst Corporation’s UGO to IGN, mergers including Aeria Games with Gamepot / SONY and financing for Acorns by Paypal / Rakuten.
Michael holds five patents in the field of communications and serves as the Chair and Board Director of the German American Business Association in Southern California (GABA).
Before joining Drake Star in 2018, Michael was a senior investment banker at Houlihan Lokey’s TMT group, a Principal at merchant bank MESA Global, and a Co-Founder and Principal of Internet and digital media-focused investment bank Covert & Co. Previously, he held senior management and engineering positions at AT&T, IBM, and Mindspeed. He received an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles and an MSEE from the University of Ulm, Germany.
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Mark Radcliffe
Partner of DLA Piper
Mark Radcliffe has been a member of the Board of Trustees since the Fund’s beginning. As a partner of DLA Piper USA, LLP and its predecessor firms since 1989, Mark represents startup technology corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. He also represents Fortune 100 companies in complex intellectual property transactions, and has worked in a wide variety of industries, from Internet to software to cloud to semiconductors. In 2011, the Department of State appointed Mark to be one of 10 private members of the U.S.-Japan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council. In 1997, the National Law Journal listed him as one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and the San Francisco Business Times has named him among the best lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been listed in the “The Best Lawyers in America,” and as one of Northern California’s Top 100 intellectual property attorneys in “Super Lawyers.” He has also been named as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” in Who’s Who Legal publication. In 1998, Harvard Law School designated him a “Distinguished Alumni.” Mark earned a B.S. in chemistry magna cum laude from University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Dale Lazar
Retired Partner of DLA Piper
Dale Lazar is the Retired Partner at DLA Piper
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David Luce
Partner of DLA Piper
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James Halpert
Partner & Co-Chair, Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Partner, IP & Technology Practice of DLA Piper
James Halpert is global Co-chair of DLA Piper’s Data Protection, Privacy and Security and Cybersecurity practices. He advises corporate boards, general counsel’s offices and risk officers on risk management, including crisis management, incident response programs, governance, cybersecurity risk reviews and vendor and supply chain risk management. He has advised clients on global security and privacy requirements. He represents clients in major security and privacy cases in federal courts and before the FTC. He has helped draft hundreds of U.S. state privacy and security laws, as well as the NIST Cyber Security Framework privacy provisions. He is recognized by Legal 500 lawyers review service as a Tier 1 “Leading Lawyer” in its Cyber Crime and Data Protection and Privacy categories.
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David Luce
Partner of DLA Piper
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Matthew Cowan
General Partner of Next47
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TJ Rylander
Partner of Next47
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Gerd Goette
Venture Capital Managing Partner of Next47
Gerd is Managing Partner, based in Palo Alto , CA . He specializes in investments in energy, communications and industrial solutions. His investments include Broadlight, Dune Networks, IP-Unity Glenayre, Kagoor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Myrio (acquired by Siemens), Reactive NanoTechnologies and Verimatrix. In addition he manages SVC’s investments in G2 Microsystems, Prenova and SmartSynch. With more than 20 years of worldwide industry experience, he combines a strong technical background with wide-ranging operational skills. Prior to joining Siemens Venture Capital in September 2000, Gerd held the position of Vice President and Head of CableTV Solutions in Siemens Information and Communication Networks. Additionally, Gerd’s managerial and operating expertise stems from earlier focus on R&D, system integration, product line management, technical sales support, project management and general management in the fields of telecommunication equipment and solutions. Gerd received a master’s degree in electrical engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.
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Lak Ananth
Founder ,CEO& Managing Partner of Next47
Lak is a Vice President of Corporate Development for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Ventures. In this role, he leads M&A strategy for Hewlett Packard and oversees the company’s strategic investments. He led the acquisitions of Eucalyptus and Shunra, the strategy behind the acquisition of Aruba (NASDAQ:ARUN), and the investment in Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP). He was a key member of the team that developed the strategy and drove the decision for HP to separate into two industry-leading public companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of MphasiS (NSE: MPHASIS), an HP company listed in India. Prior to joining HP, Lak worked in corporate development at Cisco Systems. There, he led multiple transactions including acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and divestitures. Most notably, he was instrumental in the $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks (NASDAQ: STAR), the $1.2 billion acquisition of Meraki, and investment in Control4 (NASDAQ: CTRL). Before Cisco, Lak was a venture capital investor in Silicon Valley, where he invested in several companies such as Cortina Systems, Digital Chocolate, IMVU, Jasper Wireless, and Open-Silicon. Previously, he was with 3i private equity in Asia, where he specialized in growth of capital investments in India and formulated 3i’s venture capital strategy for that geography. Earlier, he was a Director with Cambridge Technology Partners, managing large product development teams for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. Lak holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, an MS from Kansas State University, and a BE from Guindy Engineering College, India, where he was a Gold Medalist.
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Frank Andrasco
Investment Partner Venture Capital of Next47
Frank Andrasco is an Investment Principal based in Boston, MA. He focuses on investments in advanced manufacturing and industrial technologies. Specific areas of interest include cyber security, industrial automation, PLM software, industrial analytics, Internet of Things, and industrial software. As Frank is based in the U.S., he is an employee of Siemens Financial Services, Inc. and may not provide investment advice to any third parties. Before joining Siemens Venture Capital, Frank spent more than 10 years as a Partner at Egan-Managed Capital, an early-stage IT venture capital firm in Boston. At Egan, Frank led investments in companies including Wordstream, AppNeta, Highroads, Network Intelligence (Acquired by EMC), and Raidcore (acquired by Broadcom), as well as several others. Prior to his work in venture, Frank was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He also worked in financial technology at The World Bank/IFC and Price Waterhouse Management Consulting. He began his career as a Systems Engineer with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Frank received his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business and holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Finance from University of Maryland, College Park.
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Jason Sydow
Investment Partner of Next47
Jason joined QuestMark in 2007 to focus on technology enabled businesses including hardware and software. Prior to joining QuestMark, Jason led licensing and new company formation for engineering and physical sciences in the tech transfer office of Arizona State University. Previously, he was the general manager for medical batteries at EaglePicher Technologies, an energy storage company. Initially, he worked 4 years at The Boston Consulting Group as a consultant and project leader. Jason received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University, an MPhil from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar, and a B.S. from the University of Virginia.
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Parker Thompson
General Partner of Tnt Ventures
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Russ Lange
Founding Partner of CMG Partners
Russ Lange serves as an Advisor of Energetix Climate, LLC. Russ Lange Co-founded CMG Partners LLC and serves as its Partner. Russ Lange spent three years with Carter Marketing Group, specializing in assisting telecommunications and Internet companies in bringing new products and services to market. He has over two decades of experience spanning both marketing and engineering. He served as the General Manager for a fast-growing consumer products company with operations in China and the United States. He holds BSEE & MSEE from Drexel University and MBA, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Mark Chinn
Partner of CMG Partners
Mark Chinn is a Partner at CMG, a growth consultancy that helps clients better realize their market potential. Mark’s focus is in cable, wireless and telecommunications, where he has led projects across B2C and B2B in the areas of strategy, go-to-market planning and execution, new product launch and pricing. During his six years with CMG, Mark has supported business cable initiatives across topics including small cell, service and equipment pricing, wireless planning, cross-sell and upsell campaigns, WiFi and a number of new product launches. Prior to CMG, Mark was VP of Marketing and Product Management at RCN.
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David Byrd
Venture Partner of Acequia Capital
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Michael Carmen
Senior Managing Director, Partner, Private Equity Lead Portfolio Manager and Equity Portfolio Mgr of Wellington Management
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Sarah Williamson
Partner of Wellington Management
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Dara Panahy
Partner of Milbank
As leader of the firm’s Transportation and Space Group in Washington, D.C., Dara’s practice involves representation of satellite operators, aerospace manufacturers, launch services providers, communications companies, banks, private equity firms and hedge funds in debt and equity offerings, project, structured and vendor financings, mergers & acquisitions, financial restructurings and in negotiating commercial contracts. He also advises on regulatory, sanctions, anti-corruption, national security and export control matters.
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Brien Wassner
Partner of Milbank
Brien M. Wassner is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Wassner represents private equity funds, domestic and multinational privately held and publicly traded entities, hedge funds, venture capital funds, financial institutions, entrepreneurs, and emerging growth companies, as purchasers, sellers, and investors, in a wide range of corporate transactions and business combinations, including mergers, tender offers, auctions, private equity investments, stock and asset acquisitions, going private transactions, joint ventures, debt and equity financing, and general corporate and securities matters. His experience encompasses a broad range of industries, including financial services, consumer products, retail, traditional and renewable energy, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, pharmaceuticals, health care, real estate, technology, telecom and communications, biosciences, commodities, media and entertainment.
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Robert Kennedy
Partner of Milbank
Robert F. (Bob) Kennedy is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Kennedy advises public and private entities in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments, and general corporate matters. He has represented private equity funds and strategic buyers and sellers in leveraged recapitalizations, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, and private investments. His practice encompasses a broad range of industries, including financial services, commodities, energy services, communications, and health care-related businesses. Mr. Kennedy has been the lead lawyer on a number of large cap transactions, most recently the $2.7 billion sale of a global agriculture and commodities business on behalf of a consortium of private equity sponsors.
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Christina Ungeheuer
Partner of Milbank
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Robert Kennedy
Partner of Milbank
Robert F. (Bob) Kennedy is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Kennedy advises public and private entities in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments, and general corporate matters. He has represented private equity funds and strategic buyers and sellers in leveraged recapitalizations, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, and private investments. His practice encompasses a broad range of industries, including financial services, commodities, energy services, communications, and health care-related businesses. Mr. Kennedy has been the lead lawyer on a number of large cap transactions, most recently the $2.7 billion sale of a global agriculture and commodities business on behalf of a consortium of private equity sponsors.
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Christopher Boies
Partner, Founder & Chair of the Corporate Practice of Boies Schiller
Boies is partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he leads the firm’s corporate practice, which he developed, and also serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Since joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in 1998, Boies has represented a multitude of prominent corporate and individual clients including: several major energy companies, numerous international financial and investment groups, a variety of manufacturing and industrial concerns and public and private company boards of directors in a number of important transactional matters involving mergers and acquisitions advisory work, project and corporate finance matters, corporate governance advice and contract interpretation, construction and amendment issues. Prior to joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Boies was an investment banking associate in the Project Finance group at Credit Suisse First Boston and an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.
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Nicholas Eisenberger
Managing Partner of Pure Energy Partners
Nicholas Eisenberger is a pioneer of the clean economy. As a successful entrepreneur, investor, strategist, and highly regarded speaker and author, Nicholas has worked for two decades to advance the clean technology industry. Nicholas is the founder and Managing Partner of Pure Energy Partners, a venture catalyst firm that works at the intersection of finance, technology, and industry to accelerate cleantech commercialization. He is also a co-founder of GO Ventures, which invests in pathbreaking cleantech enterprises, a co-founder of the Clean Economy Network, and was recently elected by its members to the board of directors of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the leading national umbrella organization for the industry. From 2005-2009, Nicholas was Managing Principal of GreenOrder, which he and his partners established as one of the most influential sustainability strategy firms and sold in 2008. Called one of the “go to guys” in sustainability consulting by Fortune, Nicholas is widely recognized for his groundbreaking work with global companies such as GM, DuPont, HP, and GE, whose multi-billion dollar ecomagination initiative Nicholas played a key role in guiding from its launch Prior to that, Mr. Eisenberger was the founder and CEO of Ecos Technologies, an environmental management enterprise software company and a venture capital investor at Churchill Capital, one of the very first dedicated cleantech funds. In the mid-nineties, he also co-founded Mypoints.com, a pioneering public Internet marketing company that was purchased by United Airlines. Nicholas is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and received a Certificate in Environmental Law from the University of California. He serves on numerous boards in the cleantech sector including the Investment Advisory Board of Tundra Capital, the EOS Climate Advisory Board, the X PRIZE Foundation’s Energy & Environment Advisory Board, the Scottish Government’s Saltire Prize Advisory Board for Marine Renewable Energy, the President’s Advisory Council of the National Wildlife Foundation, the New York Council for Global Green USA, the Board of Directors of New York Sun Works, a sustainability and science education non-profit, and the Board of the New York Growing Up Green Charter School.
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Jan Pritchett
Managing Partner of Law Firm of Schlosser & Pritchett
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Anand Shah
Partner, US FS Banking and Ops Leader of KPMG International Limited
Anand Shah is a Partner from the KPMG Atlanta office aligned to the Financial Services Banking Practice. Anand currently serves as the KPMG US Banking Technology leader focused in the Banking Transformation (Retail and Commercial), Lending, Digital, and Advanced Analytics. Over the course of 22 years in the consulting industry, he has served as Engagement Partner on several large scale end-to-end banking transformation initiatives at several Top 20 US and global banks, ranging from Merger Integration, Enterprise Risk, Core Bank systems replacement, and multiple Loan transformation initiatives. Anand Shah also serves as a thought leader, having driven multiple banking use cases leveraging the power of data to drive cost optimization and revenue generation via Analytics, while enhancing the overall customer and employee experience.
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Shivani Sopory
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Shivani Sopory is the Partner at KPMG.
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Tomas Otterstrom
Partner and Advisory of KPMG International Limited
Tomas Otterström is the Global Lead of KPMG’s Sustainable Finance Services. He also leads KPMG’s Responsible Investment and Sustainability Services in Finland and Sweden. Tomas has over 20 years’ consulting experience and a solid knowledge of business management, responsible investment and asset management, ESG in investor relations, climate finance and markets, ESG Due Diligence and environmental economics. He has supported financial sector actors with integrating ESG in their investment processes and corporates with integrating sustainability in business strategies and key business processes.
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Scott Jones
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Scott is a Partner in KPMG’s Strategy group, leads the firm’s Semiconductor Practice for Advisory and has nearly 20 years of experience working with semiconductor and other high tech companies. He began his career at Intel in finance and later became a program manager in the Enterprise Product Group. After departing Intel he covered the Semiconductor sector at JPMorgan for the #1 ranked equity research team on Wall Street. Later he joined AlixPartners to lead their Semiconductor Practice and the Digital Transformation for the Technology, Media and Telecom sector. Scott is recognized as a thought leader in the Semiconductor industry with a series of publications on R&D Efficiency, Portfolio Management and Operations. He has also led numerous panels and delivered presentations on advanced technology topics such as 3D/2.5D TSV, EUV, 3D NAND, and AI at industry and client events. He has worked with a large group of clients across the high-tech landscape including: Intel, Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries, ARM, Western Digital, Xilinx, Lam Research, VMware, HP Enterprise, Microsemi, Allegro Microsystems, Microchip Technologies, KKR, CVC, Veritas Capital, One Equity Partners and others.
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Lindsay Farnsworth
Partner of KPMG International Limited
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Jim Adams
Partner, National Aerospace and Defense Leader at KPMG LLP of KPMG International Limited
Jim Adams is a principal with KPMG in the Industrial Manufacturing Strategy practice bringing over 20 years of experience in aerospace & defense, energy, technology, and highly engineered products and services. He specializes in strategy-based transformation, corporate strategy / corporate development, acquisition support, and improving company and product competitiveness, including operations / margin improvement Prior to joining KPMG, Jim was with PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) for over 12 years. His most recent role was the U.S. Aerospace and Defense strategy practice leader for Strategy&. Previously, Jim worked at Boeing for about ten years with roles in engineering, operations, and program management. He also spent two years with Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory where he assisted in design and manufacture of ultra-violet sensors for space-based observation. Jim also had a short tenure with Toyota Financial Services in the Treasury group as a Senior Derivatives Analyst. Jim earned a MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a MS in Engineering from UCLA (he was a Hughes Fellowship recipient for his MS in Engineering). Jim’s undergraduate degree is from the University of California Berkeley with a BS degree in Engineering. Jim is also a U.S. Army veteran.
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Lisa Daniels
Managing Partner KPMG & Risk Consulting Partner of KPMG International Limited
Lisa Daniels is the Managing Partner KPMG & Risk Consulting Partner at KPMG.
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Judith Venturino
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Judith Venturino is Partner @ KPMG.
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Michael Mackiewicz
Partner of KPMG International Limited
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Jacob Pszonowsky
Principal (Partner) of KPMG International Limited
Jacob Pszonowsky is the Partner Advisory Board member (volunteer) at Ping Identity.
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Jacob Pszonowsky
Principal (Partner) of KPMG International Limited
Jacob Pszonowsky is the Partner Advisory Board member (volunteer) at Ping Identity.
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Kristopher Brown
Partner of Dechert
Corporate lawyer and angel investor.
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Craig Smith
Partner of Dechert
Craig Smith is a Partner at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia. Mr. Smith represents a number of significant private equity sponsors, including Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners, L.P., Jefferies Capital Partners, Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. LLC, and One Equity Partners, in transactions across industries, including consumer retail, telecommunications, travel, business services, and software. He is currently co-chair of the hiring committee for the firm’s Philadelphia office. He earned J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, in 1996.
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Timothy Spangler
Partner, Financial Services Group of Dechert
Timothy Spangler focuses his practice on the intersection of alternative investment management and financial technology innovations. Mr. Spangler assists clients with the formation, structuring and negotiation of private investment vehicles across numerous jurisdictions around the world. He regularly advises fund sponsors and promoters on the structuring and launch of hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds, as well as with respect to their co-investment arrangements, internal partnerships and personal investments. On a selective basis, he advises potential investors in private investment funds. Mr. Spangler also has particular experience counseling clients on the ongoing compliance obligations of investment management firms operating in a rapidly evolving global regulatory landscape, including the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. Dividing his time between the firm’s Orange County and Silicon Valley offices, Mr. Spangler also advises clients on the impact of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and digital assets on the financial services industry and the innovation economy. Mr. Spangler was recently recognized by The Legal 500 (US) in the area of alternative/hedge funds, and has been recognized in Chambers Global in the area of USA Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, Foreign Expert for UK. He is listed in The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Investment Funds in both the United States and the United Kingdom. He is also “Recommended” for his work with Investment Funds in The PLC Cross-Border Investment Funds Handbook and is mentioned in The International Who’s Who Legal for Private Funds.
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Roby Yadegar
Founder & Managing Partner of Yadegar Law PC
Roby is a former BigLaw attorney and now Managing Partner of Yadegar Law PC (www.yadegarlapc.com), a Los Angeles based corporate law firm representing entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes with corporate transactional matters from formation to exit and everything in between. Roby started Yadegar Law in an effort to modernize the practice of corporate law by eliminating the inefficiencies he saw first hand at his previous firms, to create exceptional value for clients. By using the most up-to-date legal technology combined with lean infrastructure and streamlined processes, Yadegar Law is able to provide it’s clients with the highest level of legal representation at a fraction of the cost of traditional law firms. Roby understands business. Before starting Yadegar Law, he co-founded his own LA based tech startup, and credits that experience with making him the practical, efficient, entrepreneurially-minded attorney he is today. Roby is passionate about business and about helping his clients succeed.
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Murray A. Indick
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Murray Indick is a corporate partner at Morrison & Foerster, where he co-chairs the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice and is a member of the firm’s FinTech group. Murray Indick has more than thirty years of corporate law and investment fund experience, both in private practice and as partner and general counsel to Blum Capital Partners and Prides Capital Partners. His practice involves guiding startup businesses through all parts of the lifecycle, from initial formation through exit, as well as representing venture capital firms and investment funds on financings from seed round to nine-figure late stage investments. He also devotes a substantial portion of his practice to forming investment funds and subsequent transactional and counseling work for these funds, frequently as outside general counsel. The investment businesses he advises range in size from “startup” money managers to a global investment firm with assets under management in excess of $20 billion. Murray received his law degree, magna cum laude, in 1984 from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied history and English and graduated magna cum laude.
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Timothy Harris
Partner, Palo Alto Managing Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Jamie Levitt
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Jamie Levitt is a Partner at Morrison & Foerster.
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Zeeshan Ahmedani
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Eliot Adelson
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Eliot handles complex legal issues facing clients across the globe. He provides clients with strategies for resolving a broad range of disputes, including civil and criminal antitrust litigation, and internal and government investigations. Eliot has appeared in federal and state courts and tried numerous bench and jury trials to verdict. He has litigated matters for both corporations and individuals, and has significant experience in civil and criminal antitrust litigation and internal and governmental investigations. Among his recent matters, Eliot Adelson represents a Japanese global manufacturer of electronic components in a putative class action; the largest local TV station operator in the U.S. in a putative class action; and an auto parts company in several antitrust investigations. Before joining Morrison & Foerster, Eliot cultivated an international client base across industries and geographies over his fifteen-year tenure at another global law firm. Japanese companies, in particular, look to him for his deep knowledge of antitrust matters. In addition to his private practice experience, Eliot Adelson served as a Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County in California.
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Charles Comey
Corporate Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Catherine Polizzi
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Catherine Polizzi is a Partner at Morrison & Foerster, where she helps emerging and established companies through the challenging process of obtaining patents, providing strategic, effective portfolio counseling and management. She develops valuable, strategic portfolios around breakthrough therapies in a variety of areas, including personalized medicine, cancer and cancer immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Diseases. She also works with small and large molecule therapies, drug delivery and formulation technologies, cell-based therapies, tumor microenvironment, microfluids and genomic screening technologies. Her practice also includes due diligence evaluation and counseling in the context of venture investment assessments, as well as in connection with public and private financing, spin-offs, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions. Catherine Polizzi is recognized as a leader in technology law and as one of the top intellectual property attorneys in California for eight years running.
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Susan Mac Cormac
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Charles Comey
Corporate Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Susan Mac Cormac
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Catherine Polizzi
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Catherine Polizzi is a Partner at Morrison & Foerster, where she helps emerging and established companies through the challenging process of obtaining patents, providing strategic, effective portfolio counseling and management. She develops valuable, strategic portfolios around breakthrough therapies in a variety of areas, including personalized medicine, cancer and cancer immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Diseases. She also works with small and large molecule therapies, drug delivery and formulation technologies, cell-based therapies, tumor microenvironment, microfluids and genomic screening technologies. Her practice also includes due diligence evaluation and counseling in the context of venture investment assessments, as well as in connection with public and private financing, spin-offs, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions. Catherine Polizzi is recognized as a leader in technology law and as one of the top intellectual property attorneys in California for eight years running.
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Alfredo Silva
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
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Derek Johnston
Partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Derek Johnston is Partner at Bryan Cave.
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Derek Johnston
Partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Derek Johnston is Partner at Bryan Cave.
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Ben Curwin
Managing Partner of Sero Partners
Early stage investor and advisor with US/global operational expertise for early stage businesses and established large corporations. Has the distinctive ability to leverage media, music, lifestyle and technology sector experience, to identify strategic business opportunities for early stage growth. Also a catalyst for developing and driving innovative solutions to shape and scale businesses, create brand and customer value, and generate ROI. Highly regarded for mobilizing resources, nurturing talent, and empowering teams to deliver results.
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Matthew B. Lehr
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mr. Lehr is a member of Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, practicing in the Menlo Park office. He heads our intellectual property litigation practice, focusing primarily on complex patent litigation matters. He has extensive experience in patent and technology cases involving such areas as biotechnology, medical devices, computer architecture, chemical products, pharmaceuticals, plasma physics, electrical devices, computer networking and software, and consumer products. Mr. Lehr has served as lead counsel in numerous bench and jury trials and has represented clients in complex cases involving trade secrets and commercial litigation, as well as Lanham Act and antitrust actions in courts across the United States. He has also appeared and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Anthony I. Fenwick
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mr. Fenwick is a partner in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, based in the Menlo Park office. He has extensive experience litigating patent infringement and other intellectual property cases, as well as complex commercial disputes concerning technology-related issues.
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Sarah K. Solum
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ms. Solum is a corporate partner in Davis Polk’s Menlo Park office. She advises on public and private corporate finance transactions, including initial public offerings and convertible and other debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, SEC disclosure and corporate governance.
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Daniel G. Kelly, Jr.
Retired Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Daniel G. Kelly, Jr. is a founding partner of Davis Polk’s Menlo Park office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and joint ventures. He has significant experience in representing boards of directors in governance and sensitive corporate matters. Mr. Kelly has also been actively involved in a number of large financial restructurings as both a lawyer and, earlier in his career, an investment banker.
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Bruce K. Dallas
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
A member of Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, Mr. Dallas is a founding partner of the Menlo Park office. He advises on corporate finance, derivatives, SEC disclosure and corporate governance. His transactional work includes initial public offerings (with an emphasis on high-technology and bio-technology companies), high-yield, convertible and straight debt offerings and issuer repurchase programs.
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Alan Denenberg
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Alan Denenberg joined Davis Polk & Wardwell as Partner in 2000.
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Neal A. Potischman
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mr. Potischman is a member of Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, based in our Menlo Park office. He has represented individuals and institutions in a variety of civil, regulatory and criminal matters. He has participated in and helped prepare multiple cases for trial, including by cross-examining a number of fact and expert witnesses. He also has represented a number of witnesses in testimony before the Securities and Exchange Commission. His practice focuses on securities and acquisition-related litigation, antitrust and consumer fraud class actions, and regulatory matters (including relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act).
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Rachel D. Kleinberg
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ms. Kleinberg is a partner in Davis Polk’s Tax Department and works in our Menlo Park office. Her practice focuses on advice to corporate and private equity fund clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs and reorganizations, as well as cross-border restructurings. She also has significant experience in the areas of corporate finance and derivatives.
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Christopher Hockett
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Kirtee Kapoor
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Christopher Hockett
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Arthur J. Burke
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
As a member of Davis Polk’s Litigation Department in New York and Menlo Park, California, Mr. Burke has represented clients in a variety of antitrust, securities, corporate governance and general litigation matters. In his antitrust practice, he advises clients on the competition law aspects of mergers and acquisitions and represents clients in investigations of mergers undertaken by federal antitrust authorities pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
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Steven Salmon
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Bret Livingston
VP, Partners Performance of United Capital
Bret Livingston is the Chaplain at US Army.
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Jesse Levey
Partner of Basis One
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John Lockton
Partner of BearingPoint
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Stuart Higgins
Partner, Consumer Goods and Retail of BearingPoint
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Steve King
General Partner of Second & Fourth
As a Quintessential Business Development Leader, Steve’s success lies in his ability to rapidly execute innovative ideas from concept into multi-million dollar operations. For more than 14 years, Steve has established and led top-performing organizations with national and global market presence. Previously, Steve revolutionized the social media platform as Vice President of Sales for LocaModa, Inc. He established the interactive digital media company in the marketplace, driving global business and million-dollar revenues. Prior to LocaModa, Steve served as Regional Sales Director for Dotomi, Inc. (Acquired by ValuClick $295Mil) , an interactive media services startup specializing in behavioral and database marketing. In his early career, Steve was on the ground floor at Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), the world’s largest social utility site. As one of the first 15 employees hired at Facebook, Steve directed Media Sales in several key verticals. Here he was responsible for landing landmark relationships such as Apple, Panasonic and Microsoft that paved the way to unprecedented revenue and market share growth. Additionally, Steve drove startup success for a Boston-based venture acquired by Monster (NASDAQ: MWW), the world’s largest job portal, and began his career in media sales as one of the first sales hires to develop the New England market for Yellow Book, a subsidiary of British Telecommunications.
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