About

Boutique legal practice serving angel and VC-backed (Kleiner Perkins, DFJ, Andreessen-Horowitz, Charles River, Oak, Madrona, etc.) emerging growth companies in Silicon Valley, Seattle and elsewhere on a diverse range of legal matters including general corporate, licensing, IP strategy, labor and employment, open source, real estate, securities and international issues.

Education

The University of Michigan Law School
Juris Doctor

The Wharton School – University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science in Economics (cum laude)

Reid Hall Paris Program – Columbia University
Study abroad program in language, literature and art history in Paris, France

Le Cordon Bleu Paris Cooking School
Certificat de Cuisine Élémentaire

Prior Experience

Isilon Systems (IPO - 2006)
General Counsel and Secretary

F5 Networks (IPO - 1999)
Corporate Counsel

ViAir (acq. by Good Technology)
Director of Business Development

Concur Technologies (IPO - 1998)
Director of Business and Legal Affairs

Peapod Seattle
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

Perkins Coie
Associate

Personal

Languages:
English (native), Spanish, Korean and French (conversational but inexorably in decline).

Likes:
Travel (57 countries visited from Bhutan to Zambia), deeply curious people, Soren Kierkegaard, The French Laundry, Le Bernardin, Kyubei, Narciso Rodriguez, MaxMara, existential psychology, Rushmore, Dogville, Magnolia, Harold and Maude, Lost in Translation, anything written by Jane Austen or Alain de Botton.

Dubious Distinction:
Once ate basashi (horse sashimi), tori-sashi (raw chicken) and fugu (poisonous pufferfish) on consecutive evenings in Tokyo. I'm still here!