San Jose, California, United States
With over two decades of corporate legal experience, I've honed a robust skill set in all facets of commercial contracting, advisory/risk mitigation, and strategic communication, and providing the team with a competitive edge through astute contract deal-making and management. As a skilled multi-tasker, transactional expert, and operational thought leader with years of global experience, I have been dedicated to the mission of innovation and purposeful excellence in whatever role I play whilst never losing sight of team-first principles and holistic success.
Lead SEA Legal commercial contracts focused team member managing high complexity and high volume matters. Subject matter expert and main APAC Legal POC for multiple product areas. Project manager for legal/tax/policy compliance matters and internal legal department technology and operations initiatives. Partnerships | Product Marketing | Content Licensing | Procurement | Cloud | Hardware | Vendor Management Commercial Contracts Management and Leadership Main contracts negotiator and legal advisor to diverse group of product and inbound business teams Manage first of their kind deals in APAC with cross-border finance/tax/regulatory compliance implications Legal representative for x-functional deal approval forums responsible for escalations/policy violations Template repository manager and legal playbook reviewer for product Deal Desk teams and ancillary outside counsel support Legal training leader for product teams on contractual mechanics/fallbacks/communications Product Area Dealmaking Extensive experience across APAC region negotiating complex product specific agreements leading numerous concurrent negotiated matters requiring multi-region and multi-jurisdictional guidance Product specific in-depth expertise include: Google Ads | Google Marketing Platform and Analytics | Google Ad Manager | Google Play, Retail & Payments Activation | Android Enterprise | YouTube | Google Cloud Platform | Google Maps | Google One | Google Travel and Hotels Some notable deals as lead APAC Legal negotiator include: First-ever launch of Google Play gift codes in Vietnam YouTube Shorts Co-Marketing campaign launches in Indonesia with XL Axiata (press release) and in Thailand with AIS Zeed Enabling Google Play direct carrier billing for two preeminent Thailand telecoms: dTac and True Move H Launching Google Family Link with #1 Thai telco AIS Largest ever APAC Google Cloud Platform and Professional Services deal at the time Indonesia (2016)
APAC Legal Subject Matter Expert Google Ads Platforms Software Suites *Represent APAC in global cross-functional forums and global legal working groups managing Google Marketing Platform (fka DoubleClick), Google Analytics, and Google Ad Manager, covering issues such as GDPR, data sharing, global ads regulations and compliance *Mentor and train commercially focused lawyers and non-lawyer support teams on complete platforms suite Google Play and Android Enterprise *APAC point person across array of Google Play and Android Enterprise initiatives and agreements, and APAC localization expert fo country-specific needs and local law compliance modifications in order to scale proper frameworks APAC Marketing *Primary APAC legal team member on global cross-functional forums and global legal working groups managing all things APAC marketing *Lead negotiations across Google marketing initiatives from brand marketing, co-marketing and investment, live event/online/streaming marketing campaigns and releases, JBPs and partnerships Project Management Legal and Tax Compliance for Google Ads Products *APAC legal advisor for platforms ads revenue generating products subject to local regulation by relevant governmental and tax authorities *Experience with multiple APAC affiliate entity creation and inter-company agreements and Critical contributor to governmental and regulatory inquiries and audits: AU | NZ | JP | SK | ID | IN | TW | VN Legal Operations and Technology Tools *Key APAC Legal representative for contracts management system deployments and in-house legal department tools for streamlining processes and coordinating with corporate engineering teams *Part of evaluation and scoping team of global legal team members tasked to establish both in-house developed tools and external contract life-cycle products *Regional escalation point for multiple internal BPO deal desk support and globally dispersed outside counsel teams overseeing standards based contracting
Joined Google Legal as a temporary worker in April 2004 in a contracts administrator role, and converted to permanent, full-time Contracts Manager position in May 2005. Promoted to Sr. Contracts Manager in 2006, before transferring to APAC Legal regional team in June 2011. Legal negotiator and business client advisor on various agreements for Google legacy products including: Google Adwords | Google Books | Google Search Appliance | Google Toolbar/Chrome Distribution Procurement lead legal team member across all inbound matters including: NDAs | Inbound Services Agreements and SOWs | Inbound Software Licenses | Facilities and Lease Agreements | Audit Engagement Letters | Benefits/Insurance Agreements | Case Studies | Releases and Clearances Contributor to numerous Legal department committees in charge of creating forms and drafting guides, regional localization guidelines, indemnities and liabilities guidance and fallback language, and forum escalations parameters Completed 9-month rotation in the real estate workplace and data center services legal group (2009) Lead organizer of multiple Google legal department global/regional/small team summits and off-sites; event planning, substantive content workshop creation, breakouts coordination, and celebration generator
Corporate Securities | Mergers & Acquisitions | Series Funding/Financing | Public Company Filings | Legal Research *Supported Mario Rosati’s corporate securities group, assigned to one partner and three associates *Assisted with corporate incubation, formation, stock capitalization and international M&A transactions (Sanmina-SCI merger and financing, 2002) *Maintained and submitted time-sensitive SEC filings for public clients (10Q-K, Forms 3-5, 424, S-4, S-8) Researched Blue Sky federal/state laws; prepared stock certificates, Blue Sky letters, other ancillary securities correspondence