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Venture Attorney (Barred in CA and WA)
Los Angeles, California, United States

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    Counsel
    Triumph Law
    Nov 2023 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    Triumph Law is reimagining legal services for high growth companies and those that support them. We bring decades of experience working with truly inspirational companies at all development stages from formation to exit.
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    Counsel
    SSM PC
    Sep 2023 - Current (1 year 9 months)
    SSM is a women-owned boutique law firm with attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Seattle. We represent micro-venture capital funds, technology companies, and industry-adjacent service providers who are forming and scaling their companies, fundraising/deploying venture capital, selling to, merging with and/or acquiring other businesses. Additionally, we assist our clients in managing relationships with their former companies, employees, partners, investors, service providers, or customers. We are a completely virtual law firm and rely on innovative legal technology to provide a high-touch service.
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    Director of Business Development
    Dori.vc
    Jan 2023 - May 2023 (5 months)
    • Go-to-Market, business development, customer success, marketing and sales lead for a generative AI company focused on automated venture transactions for startups, venture capitalists, accelerators and lawyers. • Implement our GTM strategy and repeatable sales motions. Reach out to founders, accelerators, law firms and venture capitalists via cold outreach and warm introductions. Provide a demo of our products and onboard customers onto the platform. • Served as interim GC and advised on privacy, cybersecurity and venture capital financings matters. • Trained LLMs on venture capital financing documents.
  • Carta
    Business Development Manager
    Carta
    May 2022 - Jan 2023 (9 months)
    • Managed law firm and service provider relations for the Carta cap table product. Worked with partners, associates, paralegals and legal assistants at large law firms, medium/regional law firms and solo practitioners. • Key contact for Carta's pro forma cap table product. Conducted 100+ demos and helped attorneys and founders troubleshoot the product. Also provided design feedback for Carta's equity financing product. • Provided partners, associates, paralegals and legal assistants with onboarding training and ongoing support. • Met with attorneys in market in various geographies and represented Carta at multiple events. Served on panels and workshops for founders.
  • Microsoft
    Senior Business Development Manager
    Microsoft
    Nov 2021 - May 2022 (7 months)
    • Identify, develop, and manage partnerships with remote monitoring and management (RMM) companies that provide software to managed service providers to create software integrations and GTM strategies that increase product adoption and utilization. • Work with internal SMB engineering product group to identify RMM providers with at least 15,000-25,000 MSP customers, creating partnerships with four of largest RMM providers and launching at least one software integration with each of them. • Interface with product, marketing, legal, and finance teams to create go-to-market strategies and acquisition strategies and develop KPIs to monitor product adoption of Microsoft Defender for Business and Microsoft 365 Premium. • Build and document ref
  • Silicon Valley Bank
    Corporate Development Manager, Access to Innovation
    Silicon Valley Bank
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2021 (9 months)
    • Leveraged relationships with teams, non-profit partners, and investors to develop strategic framework for an initiative focused on building educational, employment, and funding pathways for Black, Latinx, and Women founders and venture capital investors. • Negotiated and secured partnerships with LatinxVC, Black Venture Capital Consortium, and Halogen Ventures, publishing first issue of state of black venture report, launching SVB Fellows program, and providing event services for LatinxVC's Emerging Manager Showcase. • Developed and tracked metrics and OKRs, including participants in partner programming, social media interactions, membership numbers, YoY growth percentages, and businesses and venture capital partners participating in pa
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    Venture Fellow
    Pioneer Square Labs
    Jan 2021 - Jun 2021 (6 months)
    • Built and validated business model for a FinTech company focused on improving transparency of credit scoring models. • Worked with other business leads to validate business ideas by drafting high-level business model briefs, conducting customer interviews, researching competitors, and creating outlines and sketches to design minimum viable products. • Worked with ventures team to create a legal cheat sheet for venture financings, including common provisions found in venture financing transaction documents and what could be considered "market" terms for each of these provisions.
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    Co-Founder & General Partner
    Fuerza Ventures
    Sep 2020 - Current (4 years 9 months)
    • Co-founded a micro venture fund to invest in pre-seed to seed-stage startups with a focus on making a difference in society (venture capital endeavors) to support Black, Latinx, Native American, and Women founders. • Perform due diligence by reviewing product (or product idea), founder background, team experience, total addressable product market, co-investors in company, and existing milestones to determine investment decision. • Manage legal & fund operations for Fuerza Ventures Fund 1, including regulatory filings, transaction agreements, LLC agreements, taxes and accounting. • Source deals, pitch and close limited partners, design pitch deck, develop investment criteria and scorecard processes.
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    Venture Transactions Manager
    Belltower Fund Group, Ltd
    Jul 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 8 months)
    Review venture capital transactions for over 6,000 portfolio companies of AngelList managed funds, including acquisitions, financings, dissolutions, and stockholder consents. Reviewed over 1,000 legal transactions. • Created an internal process for completing Canadian securities filings for funds with Canadian investors in order to lower the Company's outside contractor spend, saving the Company approximately $50,000 per year. • Developed the initial framework and processes for the back-office operations and legal support of AngelList's newest products, Rolling Funds and Management Company in a Box. • Built a conversion calculator in Google Sheets to improve the accuracy and efficiency of transaction reviews where a fund's investment in
  • Fenwick & West LLP
    Associate
    Fenwick & West LLP
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019 (10 months)
    Represented startups, venture capital firms and Fortune 500 companies in mergers & acquisitions and various securities matters. • Drafted signing and closing documents for a merger between a late stage startup company and a Fortune 500 Company including disclosure schedules and closing ancillaries as well as payment spreadsheets detailing fund allocation. • Drafted Delaware/Washington/California incorporation documents including certificates of incorporation, organizational resolutions, founders stock purchase agreements, board consents, equity incentive plans, option agreements, employment agreements, stockholder consents, managing capitalization tables and consultant agreements; coordinate securities filings. • Represented clients in v
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    Associate
    O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year)
    Represented companies, venture capital investors and private equity firms in various corporate transactional matters, including venture capital financings, buy and sell side mergers & acquisitions and securities matters. • Worked with nonprofit clients to draft board governance and organizational contracts and waivers. • Researched case law for a motion to compel during the discovery process of an antitrust trial concerning the merger between AT&T and Time Warner. • Drafted disclosure schedules, signing and closing ancillaries and managed closing checklist for $160M acquisition of a chemical company.
  • KKR & Co. Inc.
    Legal & Compliance Intern
    KKR & Co. Inc.
    Mar 2015 - May 2017 (2 years 3 months)
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    Master of Business Administration
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOSTER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    Jan 2019
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    Bachelor of Science in International Relations
    University of Southern California Office of International Services
    Jan 2016