Ambassador Nick Burns, previously the US Ambassador to NATO, US Ambassador to Greece and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, is currently a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a regular global affairs commentator on various television networks. Ambassador Burns is known for his ability to offer unique insights on major global political and economic trends that affect the technology sector. He serves as Senior Advisor to DLA Piper through the firm's exclusive relationship with The Cohen Group, where he is a Senior Counselor.

Eleanor Lacey joined Sophos in November 2016 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In this role she is responsible for the global legal affairs of Sophos.

Ms. Lacey joined Sophos from SurveyMonkey Inc., where she was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and was the Executive Sponsor of Diversity and Inclusion. Prior to joining SurveyMonkey in 2012, she was General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development at Corel Corporation, during which time the company completed its transition to a private company and undertook significant corporate restructuring. Before moving to Corel Corporation, Ms. Lacey held the position of Vice President of Corporate Development at SupportSoft, Inc. and prior to that was Vice President and General Counsel at Niku Corporation, which was acquired by Computer Associates in 2005.

Ms. Lacey began her career as a litigator in San Francisco after receiving her J.D. from Yale Law School, and graduated with a B.A. in History and English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She speaks conversational Mandarin Chinese and studied Chinese history and language in Xian, China and at Tunghai University, Taiwan. She is based in the Sophos office in Santa Clara, California.

Eve Saltman has served as GoPro's Vice President, Corporate/Business Development, General Counsel and Secretary since March 2018. Ms. Saltman served as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from February 2017 to September 2017, as Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from July 2014 to February 2017, and Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from January 2014 to July 2014. From September 2017 to March 2018, Ms. Saltman served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Asana, Inc., a web and mobile collaborative work management application. Prior to joining GoPro in 2014, Ms. Saltman served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of OL2, Inc. d/b/a OnLive, a provider of cloud gaming services from September 2012 to January 2014 and Vice President, Legal, OnLive, Inc., from September 2008 to August 2012. Since 2014, Ms. Saltman has also served as a director of Lexicon of Sustainability, Inc., a nonprofit organization. Ms. Saltman holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law School and a B.A. in History from Cornell University.

P. Bart Stephens is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the most established VC firm in the Blockchain sector, the first VC firm to raise a venture fund through an ICO, and the most active VC investor in the sector, with 75 portfolio companies across four funds. Their focus and domain proficiency give them early knowledge of upcoming ventures as they are sought after as a strategic partner, investor and brand, unlocking opportunities that aren't otherwise available and resulting in outstanding returns. Mr. Stephens is also a Managing Partner and Founder of Stephens Investment Management, a family-owned and operated hedge fund and venture capital firm. Mr. Stephens has a background of 20 years as both an operating entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Princeton University.

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column, "BoomTown," originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com.

Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the web's major players and internet policy issues as one of the Journal's first hires to cover the web, and also wrote feature articles on technology for the newspaper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home gadget issues called "Home Economics."

With Walt Mossberg, over the last 11 years, she has been co-producing D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries. Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg were also Co-Executive Editors of the AllThingsD.com website from 2007 until the end of 2013.

Ms. Swisher won a Loeb Award while at AllThingsD.com for her coverage of Yahoo. She also writes occasionally for Vanity Fair magazine, which is owned by Condé Nast.

Previously, she worked as a reporter at the Washington Post. She is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.

Ms. Swisher was an undergraduate at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and did her graduate work at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Dena Acevedo is Senior Corporate Counsel at Juniper Networks, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments. Before joining Juniper Networks, she was with a leading international law firm. Dena is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and Cornell University.

Over the past several decades, Angela Agrusa and her team of business litigators have been hired in some of the most high-profile cases filed across the country, litigating in federal and state courts from New York to Florida and Massachusetts to Hawaii. Angela tries high-stakes complex commercial, class action and civil cases on behalf of international brands, major companies and prominent individuals.

She obtains winning verdicts on both the defense and plaintiff side in courts across the country and successfully defeats numerous class action cases in their nascent stages. She is consistently ranked as one of California's top lawyers. The Los Angeles Daily Journal has named her among the "Top Women Lawyers" in California for the past three years, and Los Angeles magazine has listed her as a "Top 100 Lawyer" for the past nine years.

In a wide variety of complex disputes with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, Angela has represented her clients in an array of matters, including brand and individual reputation defense, business torts, consumer fraud and false labelling, competitor false advertising, unfair competition and privacy. She also maintains a sophisticated class action practice, strategically defeating class certification in single and multi-district litigation across the country.

Among Angela's clients are Fortune 500, public and privately held companies, municipalities and prominent public figures in a broad range of industries, including entertainment, media, consumer products and services, advertising and hospitality. She regularly counsels clients on pre-litigation and business strategy issues and is relied on for her knowledge of current market and industry trends.

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture capital firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in the future of work, with a focus on machine intelligence. He co-chaired, with New America's Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, a national effort to understand the 10-20 year future of work in the US. Mr. Bahat is also a lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Vice Chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom.

Mr. Bahat has been an entrepreneur, having started a venture-backed videogame console; a public company executive at News Corporation; a board member for companies and nonprofits; and in government in his hometown of New York. He was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business. He graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the son of immigrants, husband to a Midwesterner, and parent to two lightning bolts. He lives in San Francisco, where he tries, occasionally with success, to avoid email from Friday evening to Sunday evening.

Stephen Ballas joined Global Eagle Entertainment as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in April 2016 and has been its Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since September 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Ballas was a Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBG) from 2013 to 2016. From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Ballas served as a Senior Counsel at CBRE Global Investors, which is CBRE Group’s real estate investment management arm. He served as a Vice President at GSO Capital Partners, the credit-investment arm of The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), from 2010 to 2011, and as a Senior Counsel at the New York-based hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Ballas was a corporate associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 2002 to 2007.

Mr. Ballas has a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and a J.D. from Georgetown Law School.

Mary Anne Becking is Vice President, Corporate Legal, at Dropbox, where she leads the company's corporate legal affairs, as well as the intellectual property and stock administration teams. Mary Anne joined Dropbox in 2015 from networking equipment firm Juniper Networks, where she served as vice president and deputy general counsel and led the corporate legal affairs function.

Prior to Juniper Networks, Mary Anne held legal roles in business affairs and commercial contracts for Altera Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer (now part of Intel). She began her career at an international law firm, where she advised technology companies on a broad range of general corporate and complex transactional matters, including venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, SEC compliance and corporate governance.

Mary Anne graduated from Stanford University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Alisa Bergman is currently Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer at Adobe where she leads the Privacy, Trust & Safety team. Bergman has been a senior executive, global Chief Privacy Officer and law firm partner for the last 20 years. She has deep experience in privacy, data, emerging technologies, advanced advertising strategies, data security and incident response, data governance and information risk management, as well as legislative, regulatory and public policy matters, and government investigations. Prior to joining Adobe, Ms. Bergman was Senior Vice President & Chief Privacy Office at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Before coming in-house, she was a law firm partner in three leading privacy practices (DLA Piper, Venable and Dentons) in Washington, DC, and Brussels.

Larissa Bifano concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and federal courts.

She works with clients in diverse industries nationally and internationally to determine and execute a comprehensive IP strategy to address the client's needs in whatever situation or forum.

Larissa works with numerous clients in the following industries and technologies: clean technologies, including battery systems, solar, alternative energy, wind power; computer technology including artificial intelligence, software, computer databases, solid state devices and wireless positioning systems; medical technologies, including cancer treatment therapies, health and fitness monitoring and implantable devices; and various other technologies including nanotechnology, semiconductor processing, light-emitting diodes, optical systems, cellular networks, and options trading.

Stacey invests in business applications driving the future of work. She currently serves on the boards of directors of Aviso, Abstract, Demandbase, Extole, Lever, Namely (observer), Narvar (observer), Sailthru and Textio. Her prior board positions include HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS), Bizible (Acq: Marketo) and Vitrue (Acq: Oracle). Stacey also originated investments in ExactTarget, acquired by Salesforce, and Omniture, acquired by Adobe.

Stacey is a founding member of AllRaise and an advisor to University Growth Fund. Prior to ScaleVP, Stacey specialized in M&A within Bank of America's Corporate Development Group and worked in equity research at Morgan Stanley. She began her career as an account manager at Syntel.

Stacey holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Mason Borda is CEO and Co-Founder of TokenSoft, the market leader in launching and supporting compliant security token sales through its white label, SaaS token sale platform. An expert on blockchain compliance, Mr. Borda works closely with private equity funds, investment banks and other financial institutions to implement next-generation, blockchain-based equity structures, and has supported the launch of tokens as compliant securities in more than 50 countries.

Prior to launching TokenSoft, Mr. Borda developed and scaled foundational technologies for Bitcoin and Ethereum, the world's two largest cryptocurrency platforms. His notable achievements include architecting the custody infrastructure for the blockchain launched by the Royal Mint of England, developing the world's first-ever multi-signature Ethereum web wallet, and helping scale BitGo, a cryptocurrency custody platform, up to $1 billion in transactions per month.

Mr. Borda holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Po Bronson is a Senior Editor at Attention Span's FWD Group, reporting on the intersection of science and social change. Attention Span's futurism spans sports, medicine and food – large industries undergoing a convergence on human performance. Po’s science journalism has won nine national awards, including from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the PEN USA Literary Award for journalism. His work for The New York Times Magazine and Newsweek has been cited in more than 200 science journals and more than 500 books. He is the author of eight books, which have been published in 28 languages. 

Wei Chen is a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Salesforce, leading the legal functions for mergers and acquisitions, strategic investment, real estate and data center. During her nine-year tenure, Salesforce has become one of the most active acquirers and strategic investors in the technology space, the largest corporate tenant in San Francisco and a prominent leader in cloud computing. Wei received The Recorder's In-House Impact Award in 2015 and her team received The Recorder's Deals and Acquisitions Award in 2014.

Wei started her legal career at Skadden Arps and then at Cooley. Before joining Salesforce, she served as the Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, where she was responsible for all of its M&A activities. Wei is a sub-4-hour marathoner and an active volunteer in her community and local schools. When she is not busy doing deals, Wei loves coaching young students on their public speaking skills.

Lauren Cummings is a senior leader in Morgan Stanley's Technology Investment Banking group, leading the West Coast Equity Capital Markets effort. She has covered the equity product since 2001 − her entire career at Morgan Stanley − working in New York and London before moving to Silicon Valley in 2013. She has executed and advised hundreds of issuers on raising equity capital through IPOs, follow-ons and block trades, among other more nuanced equity products. She took a sabbatical from banking to write Warren Buffett's official biography, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a New York Times bestseller.

Lauren holds a BA in economics and Latin from Colgate University and played both Division I Soccer and Lacrosse there. She and her husband Derek live in San Mateo, California, raising five-year old daughter Alexandra and two-year old son Cole. An avid runner, Lauren is most proud of accomplishing a 2:51 marathon.

Reggie Davis leads DocuSign's award-winning Legal and Risk Compliance teams in driving acceptance and adoption of DocuSign's System of Agreement and digital signatures across all business verticals and the public sector. As Chief Privacy and Compliance Officer as well as General Counsel, he spends much of his time focused on privacy, data and corporate authorizations and certifications. DocuSign recently went public as one of the largest historical IPOs in the SaaS vertical. Mr. Davis regularly hosts colloquiums at DocuSign on becoming "The Digital General Counsel," focusing on the digital transformation of the in-house practice of law and the impacts of AI, Blockchain, legal operations, eDiscovery, eBilling, etc.

In 2010, Mr. Davis was an award winner of The Recorder's "2010 Attorneys of the Year." In 2012, his team was named "Most Innovative Legal Team" by Inside Counsel magazine. In 2013, the Silicon Valley Business Journal honored Mr. Davis as "General Counsel of the Year." In May 2016, he was named "In-House Impact" General Counsel by The Recorder. In December 2016, he was named "Innovative General Counsel" by the Financial Times "North America Innovative Lawyers" report.

Prior to joining DocuSign, Mr. Davis served as General Counsel and EVP at Zynga. Prior to Zynga, he spent nine years at Yahoo!, where he served as Vice President, Search Operations, and before that as Associate General Counsel managing litigation, security and risk management. Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Davis was a litigation partner at Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft (presently known as Duane Morris).

Mr. Davis received his J.D. from Tulane School of Law and his A.B. with Honors in European History and Sociology from Harvard University. He joined DocuSign after taking a year off from work, during which he backpacked around the world with his wife Rebecca and their four sons. The highlights of this family adventure were visiting tiger and elephant sanctuaries in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.

Brandee Diamond focuses on domestic and international M&A transactions and represents strategic and private equity buyers, public and private company sellers, and stockholders on both friendly and hostile transactions. 

She advises clients in all aspects of the deal process, including working with corporate boards and senior management on pre-acquisition planning, transaction structuring, drafting and negotiating acquisition and related agreements, and post-acquisition integration planning.

In addition to her transactional work, Brandee counsels emerging growth companies in connection with their formation and development, addressing formation, compensation, financing and other corporate matters.

Adam has been a senior executive and general counsel of two global public companies, has led a public company's corporate development team and has negotiated dozens of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures ranging from small to multibillion-dollar deals.  He helped lead the $2.5 billion sale of CSR plc to Qualcomm and has also been a board member and early investor in two private software companies, both of which were successfully sold to public companies.  Adam is currently a co-founder and board member of NextJuris, a proprietary SAAS platform that delivers video-based, mobile-friendly elearning, CLE and client alerts to businesspeople and in-house attorneys from their trusted law firms.

Mike Driscoll is a serial entrepreneur who has developed large-scale data platforms and analytics products across digital media, finance, and the life sciences. He is a founding partner at Data Collective (DCVC), a venture fund investing over one billion dollars in deep tech innovations. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder at Metamarkets, a real-time analytics firm acquired by Snap, Inc. in 2017. Previously, he founded the online retailer, CustomInk.com, and worked as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project. Mr. Driscoll received a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Brad Gersich represents both emerging and sophisticated private companies, and helps them manage their complex businesses, secure equity and debt financing and complete strategic business combinations.

Brad also assists venture capital firms, family offices and angel investors evaluate, structure and complete investments in promising early stage companies.

Combining extensive experience with employment and human resources matters with an understanding of equity compensation plans, Brad often represents senior executives of notable private and public companies in the negotiation of executive employment, retention and/or separation agreements.

Finally, Brad has considerable experience in navigating the practical and legal considerations associated with sales of capital stock of privately held companies and has successfully guided sellers in achieving liquidity through these types of transactions.

Patrick Giblin is the founder of 451 Degrees, which began as a consulting business for new technologies and business methods revolving around the Internet as they related to media company agendas.

With 451 Degrees, Patrick has partnered with and worked for an array of companies, among them Univision, Telemundo, UPN, Fox, NBC, Cox Media, IBM Watson, IBM Advertising, Advangelist Ad Delivery Network, the San Diego Union Tribune, Hard Rock Hotel and world-leading games and entertainment publisher IGN.  

Patrick is the inventor of Graffiti, the patented, GDPR-compliant SaaS of 451 Degrees. Graffiti uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural learning processes (AI, ML and NLP) to turn comments and reviews into better search terms, content recommendation, product recommendation and ad tech keywords on any article, product, image, video or music file.

Patrick currently holds five US patents issued protecting intellectual property around Graffiti's innovative technology: US 8,055,688; US 8,126,963; US 8,543,622; US 8,930,414 and US 9,471,677.

Vanina Guerrero is a corporate, securities and M&A lawyer, practicing in the firm's Silicon Valley and New York offices.

Vanina has handled a wide variety of IPOs, SEC-registered and Rule 144A/Regulation S securities offerings, high-yield debt offerings, corporate debt restructurings, M&A transactions and corporate governance issues. She has worked on complex client matters based out of New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing and Mumbai and led the Greater China/Latin America practice group of her previous firm based out of Beijing. Her clients represent numerous industries including internet and internet infrastructure, TMT, life sciences, biotech and clean tech/renewable energy.

Before joining DLA Piper, Vanina was General Counsel for both Reliance Communications (Enterprise), the flagship telecom arm of Indian conglomerate the Reliance Group, and Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) its global Internet and technology subsidiary, which owns and operates the world's largest private submarine cable system, where she was responsible for the company's global corporate and legal affairs and a member of the senior executive management team.

During her time at Reliance/GCX, Vanina led key corporate initiatives, including the company's corporate debt restructuring with high-yield bondholders and liability management exercises, strategic M&A and international arbitrations, and GCX's partnership with OTT players such as Alibaba Cloud to enable cloud services to India's largest startup community.

She is not admitted to practice law in California.

Katherine (Kiki) Haar is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader. Prior to becoming General Counsel, she was Informatica’s Deputy General Counsel, Corporate and Compliance, and was the primary attorney responsible for mergers and acquisitions, including Informatica’s $5.3 billion leveraged buyout by Permira Funds and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. As deputy general counsel, Kiki was also responsible for a broad range of legal matters such as corporate governance, regulatory compliance and SEC reporting, equity and employment arrangements, privacy and data security, social media and intellectual property issues and international legal affairs. Before joining Informatica, Kiki was a corporate and securities associate at a large international law firm, where she focused on public and private offerings, public company representation, and mergers and acquisitions. Throughout her career, Kiki has represented companies in a wide range of industries, among them enterprise software, telecommunications, entertainment and clean technology, and investment banking.

Eric Hagen has more than 20 years' experience representing domestic and multi-national clients in complex, high-stakes intellectual property disputes. He has successfully represented clients in a number of industries, including in the life sciences, technology, and media, sports and entertainment sectors.

Eric has served as a first and second-chair lawyer in jury and bench trials, as well as in arbitration and critical motion practice. He also has successfully guided cases through appeals before state and federal courts, including the US Supreme Court. In the courtroom, he has helped clients protect ground-breaking inventions and iconic brands and also avoid potentially ruinous liability. He is also a trusted advisor for several start-up companies in the development and protection of their intellectual property portfolios.

Eric is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School where he teaches an advanced course on intellectual property litigation. 

Jim Halpert advises clients regarding compliance and risk management strategies for transactions relating to transnational, federal and state security and privacy regulations, industry best practices and self-regulatory initiatives, and has represented clients in major security and privacy cases in the federal courts and before the Federal Trade Commission.

Jim represents companies on a broad range of data management issues, including cyber and data security, cloud agreements, managing privacy class action risks, trans-national data flows, navigating difficult conflicts between foreign privacy laws and US compliance obligations, regulation of advertising and marketing practices, healthcare and financial privacy, children's and student privacy,  privacy regulation of communications media, employee data, due diligence in sales of corporate assets, records management and responses to government surveillance requests.  He has extensive experience with European, Asian and Latin American privacy regimes, and regularly leads teams across DLA Piper's global network advising on complex international security and privacy matters.

As Juvo's VP of People and Culture, Lisa Haugh leads the company's people (HR) function, with an acute focus on the ways that reinforcing a culture of employee engagement and motivation can drive business success. Lisa has a unique background of 20 years of experience leading both the HR and legal functions for a range of startups and mature companies, including Udemy, Achievers, Intraware and OpenTV.

Lisa received her B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from UCLA and her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law.

Brett Ingerman's primary areas of practice are business and commercial litigation and arbitration, with a focus on complex commercial disputes and lender liability issues.

Brett also has significant experience in corporate investigations and compliance involving criminal, quasi-criminal and administrative agencies.

Brett has designed and implemented global compliance programs for companies large and small, and focuses on providing practical compliance advice consistent with best practices and local custom.

Kevin Iudicello is a managing director at Pagemill Partners, a Division of Duff & Phelps. Kevin has closed over 60 M&A and financing transactions in his 25 years of experience as both an entrepreneur and investment banker. He specializes in infrastructure and application enterprise software, mobile, Internet and gaming transactions and has closed deals with such companies as Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, Ubisoft, Autodesk and SAP.

Previously, Kevin spent six years doing software-focused M&A work at SVB Alliant / Alliant Partners while managing the firm's mobile practice. Prior to SVB Alliant, Kevin was a manager with Arthur Andersen's investment banking practice, where for three years he focused on executing M&A and placement transactions in technology and other sectors.

Prior to Arthur Andersen, Kevin co-founded a government leased real estate company, giving him unique insights into the challenges and rewards of founding a business. Working with two colleagues, he raised and structured over $100 million in equity capital for the company, filed to take it public and soon thereafter sold the business for over $400 million to a public REIT while pricing the public offering.

Kevin received his M.B.A. in finance from American University in Washington, DC and his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Southern California.

Natalia Karayaneva is the CEO and founder of Propy, Inc. which raised $15.5 million during its token sale. Ms. Karayaneva is an expert in token sales, ICO legislation, real estate sales, and on the token economy for physical assets. She is a frequent panelist and speaker at diverse blockchain and cryptocurrency events in Silicon Valley and Europe. Ms. Karayaneva has been recognized internationally for her exceptional achievements and significant contributions as an award-winning real estate developer, a well-known broker with expertise in a number of real estate markets in different European and MENA regions, and an Oxford-trained sustainability expert. Ms. Karayaneva is a managing owner of real estate development firm MP Group Ltd. She founded her first company at the age of 19.

In addition to her extensive and exceptionally successful track record as a real estate practitioner, Ms. Karayaneva also possesses a Master's Degree in Sustainable Real Estate Development from the University of Oxford (UK) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Russia.

Jerry Kral is the Senior Vice President and Chief Risk, Ethics and Compliance Officer at Brown-Forman Corp., one of the largest American-owned spirits and wine companies and among the top five largest global spirits companies. Brown-Forman sells its brands in more than 135 countries around the world and has offices in cities across the globe. In all, Brown-Forman has more than 25 brands (including Jack Daniel's) in its portfolio of wines and spirits.

Mr. Kral joined Brown-Forman in 2015. He began his career at a Big 4 consulting firm with a focus on advising clients on implementing elements of compliance to satisfy the federal sentencing guidelines. In 2008, he founded AegisAdvantage, an ethics and compliance consulting firm.

Chackan is an experienced payment industry executive who has been with Visa since 2003. A key leader in shaping the global payment ecosystem risk strategy, he co-led the initiative that set the US on its path to EMV deployment while enabling the use of mobile phones for PIN entry via the development of the PCI Software PIN Entry on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) standards. More recently, Chackan was responsible for leading an ongoing evaluation and analysis of new and emerging technologies, such as blockchains, digital fiat currency and IoT, with a focus on evaluating their impact and providing strategic recommendations to Visa. Before joining Visa, Chackan worked in Asia and the UK, bringing with him extensive expertise in information security at both the strategic and implementation level. 

Chackan is a graduate in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and also holds a Masters of Science in Information Security from the Royal Holloway College, University of London. 

Matt Larson is an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, a research platform catered to investment professionals on the Bloomberg Terminal that provides in-depth analysis and data sets on industries and companies, as well as the government, credit, litigation and economic factors that can impact decision-making. Matt’s research focuses on the technology sector, with particular emphasis on intellectual property matters and anticipating the potential impact of high-tech lawsuits or litigation trends on the financial markets.

Before joining Bloomberg, Matt worked as a patent attorney in Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, representing clients in private negotiations and before district courts, the US Patent Office and the US International Trade Commission.

Andrew Ledbetter brings a wide range of experience to the corporate and securities practice.

He regularly represents public companies in SEC periodic and current reporting, proxy statements, and related corporate and disclosure advice. Andrew has advised in dozens of initial public offerings, stock exchange listings, secondary offerings, public and private M&A deals, international transactions, PIPEs, spinoffs, going private transactions and other transactions. He has also represented numerous private companies, VC funds and other investors, and placement agents in venture transactions, as well as private funds and investment advisers in formation and organizational issues, Form ADV and securities compliance and related matters. Andrew leverages his broad securities knowledge to advise clients on emerging financing trends, such as crowdfunding, Reg A+ and initial coin offerings (ICOs), token generation events or similar distributed ledger or blockchain-enabled means for raising capital.

Louis Lehot's corporate, securities and M&A law practice focuses on advising public and emerging private companies and their venture capital and private equity investors from formation to liquidity. Louis has domain experience in public offerings and private placements of equity, equity-linked and debt securities, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments and joint ventures, as well as corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. He regularly represents US and non-US registrants before the SEC, FINRA, NYSE and NASDAQ.

Louis has represented both public and private clients in the United States and globally, with a focus on cross-border transactions.

What Louis most enjoys about his practice is helping his clients achieve growth in their business in new markets and greater returns.

Louis has been consistently rated as a leading lawyer by Chambers and other peer-reviewed legal guides, receiving praise for the high quality of his advice, his responsiveness and passion for his clients.

Neil Mandt is the founder of the ​Los Angeles-based companies Mandt Media and Mandt Bros. Productions. During his career, he has been a veteran producer of more than 3,000 episodes of network television and six feature films,​ as well as​ a pioneer in virtual reality and augmented reality, creating ​more than 2,000 pieces of immersive media content.

​Mr. Mandt is an active ​member of the Explorers Club,​ an owner of passport stamps from 119 countries, a five-time Emmy Winner, a​ member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Producer's Guild of America and Director's Guild of America.

Over the last 18 months, Neil Mandt worked with global leaders in real estate to ensure that their assets are protected and monetized, as immersive media forever changesour ​three-dimensional world. The usage ​of augmented reality ​on the mobile phone is transcending​ the traditional barrier between viewer and story. The resulting audience engagement will ​convert people from passive viewers into active participants in the stories and brands​ that surround them.

Mr. Mandt is a sought-after speaker in the emerging area of immersive content, and its value propositions for brands and organizations. Past keynotes included speeches in London, Helsinki, New York and Los Angeles. His experience helps brands and land owners ​harness the potential of immersive media content, distribution and rights management.

Nicolas Maquaire is a successful serial entrepreneur in the field of information management. In 2005, he co-founded EntropySoft, which normalized access to all content management systems. By 2010, its technology was used by five out of the ten biggest software companies and by 35 percent of the search engines worldwide. EntropySoft was acquired in 2013 by Salesforce. The product became Salesforce Files Connect and helped connect Salesforce with Microsoft or Google.

After successfully delivering new product to Salesforce, Nicolas started a new venture and created Kloop (Knowledge Loop), to evaluate the opportunities Artificial Intelligence was uncovering in his field. The team built a platform with multiple neural networks to extract key insights out of millions of web articles. They then launched Related Content, a feature allowing users to instantaneously get more context on any article in any app. Today, Nicolas and his team are leveraging this technology to revisit content curation.  

Rob Massey has 20 years of professional experience in tax consulting for technology companies including search, SaaS and gaming with particular experience in blockchain, cryptocurrency and tokenization. He serves companies throughout the blockchain ecosystem, including those involved in mining, specialty chip design and manufacturing, payment processing, wallet hosting, exchanges, ETFs, hedge funds, tokenization and protocol development. Rob leads Deloitte's blockchain efforts in tax for the global firm.

Rob is the president and site manager of Tax-Aid, a 501(c)(3) public charity that provides year-round free tax services to strengthen the San Francisco Bay Area community.

He earned his B.S. in Accounting at the University of San Diego and his M.S. in Tax at Sn Diego State University.

Todd McDonald is Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships for R3. He co-founded R3 in 2013 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of distributed ledger technology for financial services. In his current role, Todd focuses on building the partner application ecosystem for R3's Corda platform.

Prior to R3, Todd spent 14n years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in its Financial Markets group, where he held such positions as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas.

Todd holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University.

Rena Mears has more than 25 years of experience advising global companies in financial services, hospitality, technology, pharma, biotechnology and consumer products on data risk, privacy, cybersecurity and information security matters. She has built and led teams with the diverse skill sets necessary to manage information assets in the evolving global market. Rena has worked closely with boards and senior management to evaluate data risk and deploy effective risk mitigation strategies in the enterprise.  She  has also helped organizations design and implement the effective operational programs, processes and controls  required to comply with the legal, regulatory and contractual requirements affecting companies operating in complex regulatory environments.

Before joining DLA Piper, Rena was the national and global leader of Deloitte's privacy and data protection services, and more recently was managing director at a leading US law firm.  

Rena works closely with lawyers in DLA Piper's global Data Protection, Privacy and Security group – highly rated by Chambers and Legal 500 – to augment our offerings in privacy and cybersecurity assessments, program and control design, data mapping, and program and vendor-risk management.

She has significant experience leading major enterprise initiatives for global companies focused on:

• Data asset risk management services
• Privacy and security program development
• Third-party risk management
• Cybersecurity, data protection, and data breach response
• Forensics, data analytics, and data leakage
• Legal and regulatory compliance
• Privacy and security gap assessments and reporting
• Cross-border data flow compliance and management
• Security and privacy by design in products and services

Rena's engagements typically involve risk and threat analysis, strategy and program development (including governance, operations, assessment, and reporting), data mapping, controls assessment, and remediation and program sustainment activities. In addition, Rena has led multi-year engagements dealing with cyberthreats, incident response, and APT analysis for global companies.

She further advises clients on issues involving:

• General Data Protection Regulation; Safe Harbor/Privacy Shield• US breach notification laws
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• State privacy and data protection laws
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA)

Rena holds the following/certifications:  CISSP, CIPP, CISA, CITP. She also is a CPA in Alabama.

Rena Mears does not provide legal services.

Martin Minnoni is the co-founder and CTO of Wibson. He is an MIT-trained mathematician and economist and former IMF researcher in the Strategic Issues Division. He has more than ten years of experience in building tech companies. 

Martin is recognized as a leading thinker in data analytics monetization products that take advantage of massive, cross-industry datasets.  Most recently, he co-founded Grandata, a San Francisco-based data analytics company that provides a privacy-preserving data platform for companies to monetize their data assets. Wibson.org is a project of Grandata.

Martin has published several publications in peer-reviewed journals and won prizes from KDD for best paper in social networks analytics. 

Brandon Pace is the Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Assistant Secretary and Head of Corporate Legal for LendingClub. At LendingClub, Brandon manages the company's corporate legal functions, including contracts, corporate reporting and filing, intellectual property, investigations and litigation, licensing, operations, privacy, real estate, and regulatory change and compliance.

Before joining LendingClub, Brandon was the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel for eBay, which for many years also owned PayPal.  At eBay, he had global responsibility for asset protection, investigations and litigation, patents and open source, regulatory matters, and technology transactions.

In his many years of private practice preceding eBay, Brandon worked primarily for international law firms representing technology and financial companies in commercial, intellectual property, and investigation and litigation matters.

Neela Paykel is head of legal affairs and compliance at Proteus Digital Health. Before joining Proteus, Neela was assistant general counsel at Genentech, where she served as the lead attorney for the managed markets business unit. She advised on a broad range of managed care, healthcare law, privacy, antitrust and FDA promotional issues. Earlier in her career, Neela was at CVS Caremark, serving as the lead counsel for health plan business and was an associate counsel at Blue Shield.

Neela is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, with a Bachelor of Arts in International Business Administration, and received her Juris Doctorate degree from George Washington University Law School.

Mark Radcliffe's practice is split evenly between corporate securities (particularly venture capital transactions) and intellectual property licensing and strategy. He works with technology companies and companies that use technology throughout the world. Currently, he is particularly focused on the use of blockchain technology and the use of tokens for capital formation and implementing new business models.

Mark has been working in Silicon Valley for over 30 years and has worked on over 1,000 venture capital transactions. He has significant experience in applying the law to the issues raised by new technologies, such as open source software, blockchain, IoT and domain names. For example, in 1994, he assisted Network Solutions, Inc. in developing the first domain dispute resolution system which is still the basis for the system in use today. His clients range from Fortune 500 such as Oracle Corporation and Sony Corporation to unknown startups. Currently, he and his team work with over 50 startups. He has worked across a wide variety of industries, including software (in particular open source software), blockchain, IoT, semiconductor, consumer electronics, content licensing (from music to characters), and medical devices.

Erin Rinn is Corporate Counsel at VMware, Inc. focusing on mergers & acquisitions and strategic investments. Prior to joining VMware, Ms. Rinn worked at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Ms. Rinn is a graduate of Duke University School of Law and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Heidi Roizen is a venture capitalist, corporate director, Stanford educator and recovering entrepreneur.   She is an Investment Partner at leading venture firm DFJ. She is also currently a corporate director for DMGT (LSE:DMGT), Zoox, Planet, Memphis Meats, ShareThis and Helix.re. 

In the early 80s, Heidi co-founded software company T/Maker and served as its CEO for over a dozen years until its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation. After a year as VP of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple, she became a venture capitalist and corporate director. Heidi is also the co-lead of Stanford’s DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship Program. She has undergraduate and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford, and is the proud mother of two kids and two rescue dogs.

Jon is the founder and managing partner of Cisco Ventures, a newly formed independent venture firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.  He was previously a general partner with New Enterprise Associates, leading the firm's investments in Aera Technology, Brandless, DataVisor, Didi Chuxing, Elastic, HackerOne, OPOWER (NYSE: OPWR, acquired by Oracle), Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP), The Players' Tribune, ThirdLove and Uber.  Before joining NEA, Jon was an entrepreneur and co-founder of IMlogic, Inc. (acquired by Symantec Corporation) and served as its Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Products. Earlier in his career, he was with Goldman Sachs in its private equity group investing in software, internet, and communications.

Chen M. Shachar co-founded PlaySight Interacticve with the mission of connecting and inspiring the next generation of athletes.

Through PlaySight, Mr. Schachar  is proving that, in the next few years, a significant number of SmartCourts in every country will communicate with personal activity tracking sensors and mobile devices. SmartCourts will provide a variety of services for athletes, from advanced coaching tools to officiating, broadcast, and a platform to store, manage and share all their video highlights, memories, and statistics from their sports careers. 

PlaySight is bringing this future to tennis, squash, basketball and now soccer, handball, volleyball, judo, wrestling, and gymnastics, with more than 1,000 SmartCourts already installed all over the world.

Before establishing PlaySight Interactive, Mr. Shachar was a senior executive with more than 10 years of extensive experience in management, development, and delivery of state-of-the-art multidisciplinary training, after action review and command and control systems to the military and homeland security markets.

Mr. Shachar holds an M.E. in System Engineering and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, both from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and is a retired Major from the Israeli Armed Forces and an elite technology unit of the IDF.

Sally Shin is the San Francisco Bureau Chief at CNBC, overseeing coverage of Northern California, including Silicon Valley. Before taking on that role, she was the Senior Producer for Squawk on the Street and Squawk Alley, a one-hour program that focuses on the intersection of tech and Wall Street. She helped launch Squawk Alley in 2014.

In her time at CNBC, Sally has covered major IPOs including those for Facebook, Alibaba and Twitter and has spearheaded events including the IMF/World Bank meetings, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the UK's Brexit referendum.

She has a B.A. in journalism and economics from New York University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, with a focus on finance. Before joining CNBC, she was with Bloomberg Television.

Margo Tank focuses her practice on advising financial services companies, commercial enterprises and technology companies on the full spectrum of regulatory compliance matters related to the use of electronic signatures and records to enable digital transactions offered online and via mobile devices.

She also advises businesses on laws enabling money transmission and virtual currencies, emerging payments mechanisms including prepaid cards, debit cards, stored value and other asset value transfers utilizing smart contracts and blockchain technology. Ms. Tank also advises clients on laws related to privacy and data security surrounding electronic financial services and payments matters.

Margo began her legal career as counsel to the US House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Financial Services. An early advocate for the financial services industry's acceptance and implementation of electronic signatures, she served as counsel to the Electronic Financial Services Council and assisted the group draft and lobby for the Electronic Signature in Global and National Commerce Act, and is currently counsel to the Electronic Signatures and Records Association, where she works to further electronic financial services policy before Congress and federal regulators. She also is counsel and co-reporter for SPeRS (Standards and Procedures for Electronic Records and Signatures). She is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section and the Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace, a member of the Electronic Transactions Association's Mobile Payments Committee, is on the xDTM Standard Board of Governors, and is a legal member participant in the Digital Chamber of Commerce's Smart Contracts Alliance. In 2016, she was appointed as an Observer to the Uniform Law Commission's Study Committee to Amend the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts and the ULC Drafting Committee on Electronic Wills.

Margo has written books, articles, and surveys on electronic signatures, smart contracts, virtual currency, privacy, financial services websites and mobile apps, and more. She co-authored the 2016 Study for the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation, Digital Documents – Financing Paperless Transactions; eight editions of Thomson Reuter's The Law of Electronic Signatures and Records (2012-2016), and three editions of Standards and Procedures for Electronic Signatures and Records (SPeRS), a compilation of guidelines, procedures, checklists, and strategies for developing systems to create, deliver, sign, manage, and transfer legally enforceable electronic records and signatures in commercial and consumer transactions.

She has been recognized by Legal 500 (2014-2017) in the area of Media, Technology and Telecoms – Technology: Cyber Law (Data Protection and Privacy). She is the recipient of the 2015 "ESRA Cornerstone Award" in recognition of her foundational vision and influential leadership in the advancement of electronic signatures and records. She was named a 2009 "Mortgage Banking Technology All-Star" by Mortgage Banking Magazine.

Tom Trowbridge is the President of Hedera.  He has been advising and investing in technology companies since 1996, starting his career as an investment banker in the telecom group of Bear, Stearns & Co. Tom began investing in early-stage companies in 1998, when he joined the private equity firm Alta Communications. Over three-and-a-half years, he executed ten deals in technology, telecom and media and served on two boards. After Alta, he spent almost four years at Goldman Sachs before holding various positions at Lombard Odier and Atticus Capital. Prior to joining Hedera, he started and ran the New York office for UK-based Odey Asset Management.

Tom has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University with honors. He is a member of the honor society Beta Gamma Sigma.

Ervin Tu is a partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors.

At SoftBank, Ervin leads the firm's strategic initiatives. He helped lead the negotiations associated with the formation of the SoftBank Vision Fund and led the firm's investment in Uber and the acquisition of Boston Dynamics from Alphabet. 

Before joining SoftBank in 2016, Ervin was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on M&A and advised clients on over $90 billion of announced M&A transaction volume. 

Ervin received an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Betsy Tucci is Associate General Counsel for Boston Consulting Group, focusing her support on its BCG Digital Ventures division, which invents, launches, scales and co-invests in innovative digital products and companies. Prior to BCG Digital Ventures, Ms. Tucci served as Principal Counsel for The Walt Disney Company, where she supported digital projects for Disney's domestic and international theme parks and resorts. Betsy Tucci graduated from UCLA Law in 2001 and started her legal career in the corporate transactions department of the law firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Century City.

Dan Vaughn is an Associate General Counsel, Managing Director Legal, ICAP M&A at Intel Corporation, where he previously served as a Director of M&A Legal. Prior to joining Intel, Dan served as Vice President, Corporate Legal at McAfee.

He has over 20 years of experience working in corporate finance and M&A, the last 10 spent in-house with McAfee and, subsequently, Intel after its acquisition of McAfee.

Dan is a graduate of Washington State University and the University of Virginia School Of Law.

Nick Washburn is a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Intel Capital, which invests in innovative startups targeting artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, workload accelerators, 5G connectivity, virtual reality and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US $12.3 billion in 1,530 companies worldwide and more than 660 portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired.

Nick's career experience includes venture capital equity and debt investments, public and private company M&A, leveraged buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, restructurings, IPOs, PIPEs, dispositions, tender offers, spinoffs, joint ventures, hostile takeovers, corporate takeover defensive measures and portfolio company management, including complex cross-border transactions.  Nick was recently co-named #6 on the Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018 list of the top 100 rising stars in the corporate venture capital ecosystem.

Nick previously served as a Managing Counsel (Americas) and a Senior Attorney for Intel Capital.  Prior to joining Intel Capital, Nick worked at prominent international law firms in Palo Alto and New York.  He is a graduate of the Villanova University School of Law (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) and the College of the Holy Cross.

Grant Wernick is the Co-Founder and CEO of Insight Engines. Insight Engines is a leader in natural language search technologies. The company builds products for the data curious to augment human intelligence with machine intelligence via its patented natural language processing technology. The flagship product, Insight Investigator for Splunk, enables people, no matter how tech-savvy, to ask questions of their log data and get answers in seconds. Insight Engines products are utilized by the Fortune 500 as well as some of the largest government organizations. Investors include August Capital, Splunk, Google Ventures and DCVC.

Mr. Wernick is a recognized speaker. He's spoken at events like Techcrunch Disrupt, Splunk .conf and SXSW.  He is often quoted in the press, appearing in business and trade media, including CSO from IDC, Government Computer News, diginomica, eWeek, siliconANGLE, Fortune, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and CNET.

Prior to Insight Engines, Mr. Wernick was the CEO and Cco-founder of Weotta. Where he built and led the talented team of natural language and machine learning engineers who developed the revolutionary natural language local search app used in over 1,000 US cities daily. Grant's experience in high-tech spans almost 20 years, ranging from Applied Materials to part of the AngelList founding team.

Peter White has over 20 years of experience in the professional sports business, representing various parties in commercial, development, financing, corporate and M&A transactions involving the world's major sports leagues, including Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, England's Premier League and Italy's Lega Serie A.

Over the years, Peter has gained significant experience representing teams, owners, banks, investors and other parties in the development and financing of sports properties, including leagues, clubs, media interests, stadiums, arenas, concessions and related assets.

As Global Co-Chair of the firm's Media, Sport and Entertainment Sector, Peter helps coordinate the firm's financing, M&A, sponsorship, development, major events and disputes practices in this sector around the world and manages significant client relationships.

Steve Wilson is currently Vice President of Product for Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) at Citrix. He has more than 20 years of experience developing and marketing products at multi-billion dollar technology companies such as Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Prior to Citrix, Mr. Wilson led development for a software product line with $1 billion in annual sales. During his time at Sun Microsystems, he was an early member of the team that developed the Java computer programming system, the most widely used set of software development tools in history.

Steve Wilson is the lead author of "Java Platform Performance: Strategies and Tactics," published by Addison-Wesley. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and a second-degree black belt from the American Taekwondo Association.

Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is leading the transition to software defining the workplace, uniting virtualization, mobility management, networking and SaaS solutions to enable new ways for businesses and people to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility through secure, mobile workspaces that provide people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in 2014 of $3.14 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by more than 100 million users globally.

Roseanne Wincek joined IVP in March 2015. She focuses on investing in later-stage, high-growth consumer and enterprise companies.

Roseanne currently serves as a board member for MasterClass and a board observer for KeepTruckin and has actively worked on IVP's investments in Compass, Cyence, Glossier, Looker, Lulus, MuleSoft (CRM), Qubole and TransferWise.

Roseanne was previously a Principal at Canaan Partners, a leading early-stage venture firm, where she invested in companies including Metacloud (acquired by CSCO), Turo and UNIFi Software.

Roseanne's tech career started when she co-founded imthemusic and built apps on the early Facebook platform while working on a Ph.D. at Berkeley. She has been a product manager at NextBio (acquired by Illumnia) and an associate at McKinsey & Co in New York.

Roseanne holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she served as Co-President of the VC Club and Chair of the Social Committee, as well as an M.A. in Biophysics and a B.S. in Chemistry, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jed York began his career with the San Francisco 49ers in 2005. He was promoted to CEO in 2010. Mr. York led the development and construction of Levi's Stadium. The 49ers have played in three NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl during his tenure, and were named ESPN's Humanitarian Team of the Year in 2017.

Mr. York graduated from Notre Dame with degrees in finance and history. He started his finance career at Guggenheim Partners in New York. Jed York serves on the boards of Tipping Point, Chegg, and VenueNext. He and his wife, Danielle, have two sons, Jaxon and Brixton.

Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law and the Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. A graduate of Harvard (A.B., summa cum laude), Oxford (M.Sc. as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale (J.D.), he specializes in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature. Mr. Yoshino taught at Yale Law School from 1998 to 2008, where he served as Deputy Dean and the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law. He is the author of three books: Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights; A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice; and Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial. Mr. Yoshino has published in major academic journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He has also written for more popular forums, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He makes regular appearances on radio and television networks, such as CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS. In 2011, Mr. Yoshino was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers for a six-year term (and served as President of that body inthe 2016-17 academic year). He also serves on the Board of the Brennan Center for Justice, the Global Advisory Board for Out Leadership, and the External Advisory Panel for Diversity and Inclusion for the World Bank Group. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, including the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014 and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award in 2016.