Sales Marketing

CO M M E R C I A L CO U NSE L

SA L E S MA R K E T I N G PR O D U C T D E V E L O P M E N T BUS I N ESS OPP O R T U N I T I ES

Versatile and articulate attorney w ith more than 10 years of experience in diverse areas of law.

Licensed in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and pending Registered In-House Counsel in California.

Motivated leader, trainer, and mentor in all areas of expertise.

Technically savvy, w ith up-to-the-minute knowledge of current technologies and their accompanying legal issues.

Responsible and capable of providing legal counsel in multiple areas and to multiple teams or clients simultaneously.

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Sales and Distribution Law Marketing/Promotions Data Protection/Breach

Response

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Advertising Content Licensing IP Licensing

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Endorsements/Sponsorships Copyrights/Trademark Terms of Service

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Training/CLE Privacy Policies

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Compliance

Online/Social Media Resale Price Maintenance

• Antitrust

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IN TEL CORPORATION Santa Clara, CA June 2013 to Present

ATTORNEY SALES, MARKET ING, ENG INEERING, A ND BUSINESS OPERATIONS FOR INTEL MEDIA ( A CQUIRED BY V ERIZON )

Serve as lead sales attorney for OnCue, recently acquired OTT device and service including providing counsel to sales steering

committee, forward/reverse logistics, and drafting and negotiating contracts. Assist business operations and advanced advertising teams

w ith general terms of service, privacy notices, and other disclosures stemming from perpetual technology, geo-targeting, and online

behavioral data collection.

• Counsel: Serve as counsel to engineering, business development, application development, advertising operations/sales,

marketing, customer care, and communications teams at all phases of product development up to anticipated launch for compliance

and product liability issues.

• Compliance: Monitor compliance with United States and major international laws regarding intellectual property, content

regulation, digital-rights management, consumer protection, and advertising.

• Contracts: Draft and negotiate inbound and outbound IP licenses, OEM, joint development, co-location, content licenses. SaaS

application hosting, advertising services, and marketing/promotional agreements.

• Accomplishments: Drafted, negotiated, and closed first corporation-wide master purchase agreements with major online and

brick-and-mortar retailers, facilitating all product sales under single agreement. Closed multiple TV, movie, music and new-channel

l inear, VOD, EST, and broadcast agreements with launch targeted designated market areas.

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS A MER ICA Ridgefield Park, NJ May 2008 to June 2013

C OUNSEL M ARKET ING AND D IG ITAL M EDIA (JUNE 2009 TO JUNE 2013)

Served as primary US legal counsel for eighth largest global brand, supporting all marketing and advertising by providing counsel,

contract review and approval, dispute resolution, and staff training. Provided counsel for digital marketing, social media, mobile and

location-based marketing, production, guild matters, acquisition and distribution of content, and third-party rights issues. Oversaw

domestic management of large global trademark portfolio for all Samsung properties, including strategy, search, clearance, application,

registration, renewal, and administration of portfolio.

• Responsibility: Solely accountable for review and approval of copy, claims, marketing concepts, and promotional strategies in

advertising and contests/sweepstakes for TV, print, radio, mobile, email, social media, and US website.

• Contracts: Drafted and negotiated joint-marketing, agency-of-record, market-intelligence, talent/spokesperson, insertion-order,

music-synch, sports/entertainment event-sponsorship, cause-marketing, and web-development/analytics agreements.

• Accomplishment: Lead counsel for the Samsung.com US Website re-launched in September 2010 including all privacy, terms

of use, e-commerce, CRM, D MCA/CDA, data storage, and IP issues.

C OUNSEL M EDIA SOLUT IONS, PRIVACY, AND C ONTENT (JUNE 2009 TO JUNE 2013)

Served as head legal contact for content-solutions teams, responsible for acquisition and distribution of applications and content,

including apps, music, movies, VOD, and television through Samsung Smart TV and mobile platforms. Counsel for device, online, and

advertising interactive technology as well as second-screen product-integration development. Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated complex

technology-licensing deals including inbound content, application development, joint development, SDK, EULA, advertising services,

and click-through agreements. Provided compliance counsel for global data protection and privacy, spam, copyright and fair use, online-

user agreements, COPPA, DMCA/CDA, cookies and online behavioral advertising, social media, royalties, and data sharing.

• Training: Provided company-wide legal training regarding new laws and regulations, enforcements, standards, consortia, and

industry best practices.

• Data Breach Response: Headed legal aspect of data-breach response team, assisting in development, enhancement, and

administration of corporate policies as well as procedures for collection, protection, storage, usage, sharing, breach response, and

disposal of data.

• Accomplishment: Developed all US service, privacy notice, content licensing, and click to agree terms and conditions for the

f irst Smart TV ecosystem in consumer electronics.

COUNSEL SALES, MARKET ING, AND CONSUMER LAW (MAY 2008 TO JUNE 2013)

Served in additional role as counsel for product sales, distribution, marketing, and promotions as well as for Best Buy, Lowes, Circuit

City, Sears, and regional reseller accounts.

• IP Litigation: Provided outside counsel management, e-discovery, and legal-hold assistance for IP litigation with Korean parent

company.

• Accomplishment: Revitalized resale price-maintenance policy upon precedent of Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v.

PSKS, Inc., 551 US 877, a policy eventually adopted by CE industry.

VERI ZON W IRELESS Basking Ridge, NJ JANUARY 2005 TO MAY 2008

A TTORNEY L EGAL AND E X TERNAL A FFAIRS

Provided counsel in support of B2B contracts, advertising and marketing review, legal challenges to competitive claims, and post-

contract disputes for nation’s largest wireless service provider. Drafted and negotiated voice/data sales agreements, IP licenses, NDAs,

entertainment-concept agreements, and marketing/promotion agreements for media platforms including wireless, data, Internet, and other

technologies. Served as legal contact for record-label distribution deals, music videos, ringtones, ring-back tones, professional-sports

sponsorship deals, and major-artist tour sponsorships.

STRUBINGER LAW OFFICES Palmerton, PA M AY 2003 TO JANUARY 2005

A SSOCIATE A TTORNEY

Served as attorney and litigator in employment, domestic, real-estate, PI, criminal-defense, Social-Security, and bankruptcy cases for

fast-paced general-practice law firm serving five counties. Sole attorney responsible for providing business counseling to clients on

issues of general commercial law, contracts, intellectual property and licensing, employment, and corporate securities.

EDUCATION

JURIS D OCTOR, 2002 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, F INANCE /

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, BACHELOR OF A RTS, I NTERNATIONAL BUSINESS,

W I T H H ONORS, 1999

Philadelphia, PA

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD

Judicial Clerkship for President Judge Richard Webb,

Carbon County, Jim Thorpe, PA, Summer 2001

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Implementing a Social Media Strategy for Promos, Sweeps, Contests, while Adhering to Specific Platform Guidelines

ACI 4th Annual Focus on Sweepstakes, Contests, and Promotions September 24, 2010

How Recent Advertising Trends Have Raised the Bar & Created Complex New IP Challenges for Counsel

ACI Advanced IP Forum for Advertising Counsel April 27, 2011

Best Practices for Protection of IP Rights when Employing Social Media

ACI Workshop Advanced IP Forum for Advertising Counsel April 29, 2011

Trademark Enforcement in a Global Economy

ALM IP Trademark, Copyright, and Licensing Forum September 14, 2011

Maintaining Followers: Ensuring Your Online Content is Fresh/Exciting in a “Hyper Real Time” Environment

ACI Social Media, Business Technology, and the Law October 27, 2011

Brand Protection in a Digital Age

ALM Social Media: Risks and Rewards December 1, 2011

Privacy Compliance in Advertising &Marketing: Behavioral Advertising, Social Marketing & Protecting Brand Name

ACI Privacy and Security of Consumer and Employee Information – July 28, 2012

Capitalizing on Cause Marketing: Integrating Philanthropy with Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions

ACI Digital Advertising Compliance: Sweepstakes, Promotions & Social Media – September 11, 2012

Preventing, Implementing Effective Protocols, and Examining Procedures to Mitigate Damages if a Breach Occurs

ACI 6th Annual Advanced Forum on Cyber & Data Risk Insurance – September 28, 2012

Open Source Software and Third Party Content Licensing (Advisory Board Member)

ALM IP Trademark, Copyright, and Licensing Forum October 25, 2012

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