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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.