Experience

A timeline of operating leadership.

Roles selected for what they reveal — about judgment, range, and the willingness to stand at the edge of legal practice and operating responsibility at the same time.

  1. Present

    Legal & Compliance Leadership — AI Evolution

    StoneEagle

    Leading the modernization of the legal and compliance function in a regulated automotive technology business — embedding AI governance, vendor risk, privacy, and contracting standards into a high-velocity operating environment.

  2. Recent

    Founder & Principal

    AI Product Explorer · Chaberista

    Building AI products with legal and security compliance baked in from day one. Chaberista brings AI-assisted compliance tooling to teams that need governance to keep pace with product velocity.

  3. Multi-year

    In-house Counsel & Compliance

    Public Companies & VC-Backed Startups

    Corporate, commercial, M&A, privacy, security, and regulatory work across publicly traded enterprises and venture-funded technology companies. Built playbooks, negotiated nine-figure transactions, and partnered with executive teams through funding, scaling, and exits.

  4. Ongoing

    Independent Counsel

    Startups, Founders, Talent

    Trusted outside counsel for early-stage technology companies, founders, talent, composers, producers, and writers. Referenced through AVVO. 40+ productions as legal counsel; 10+ as producer with budgets between $500K and $30M with theatrical and SVOD releases.

  5. 2008 – 2012

    Founder

    Moikka Company

    Early iPhone application studio shipping consumer apps in the formative years of the iOS App Store. Lessons in product, distribution, and platform risk that still inform how I advise technology executives today.

  6. 2014 – 2020

    Founder & Executive Producer

    Florenza LLC

    Producing investigative-journalism documentaries internationally, leading on-set teams of up to 100 across multiple countries. Operational leadership of complex, high-stakes productions with regulatory, talent, financing, and physical-security considerations.