Sharon Reiche is Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property Policy, at Pfizer Inc. In her role as Corporate Counsel she works on IP policies that advance the protection of Pfizer’s substantial investment in research and development. She holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

A Swiss and Italian citizen, Gabriella Porcelli is a long experienced General Counsel and currently Senior Legal Advisor to CEO at Philip Morris Italia. She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1991, gained a solid professional experience in prestigious law firms in Milan and later moved in-house, gaining more than 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles across various industries. In 1993 she was selected for the British Council "European Young Lawyers Scheme" and she trained in English and Scots law. Gabriella also studied at INSEAD Fontainebleau (project management and business administration corporate program) and at SDA Bocconi (corporate governance). She is also an independent Board member at the listed company Terna Spa ( the Italian electricity TSO), a member in the ICC - Italy Competition Law and Practice Committee and in Confindustria working groups on Company Law and Corporate Crimes (Legislative Decree 231/2001). Prior to Philip Morris, she served for 10 years as Associate Legal Director at Pfizer Italia (pharma) and, before, as Senior Legal Advisor at ENI, specializing in international contracts negotiations, corporate governance, antitrust and corporate law. At Philip Morris she led a team of experienced lawyers and is currently a member of the Management Team and a Compliance Investigator. In 2014 the team guided by Gabriella was awarded the TopLegal Corporate Counsel Award as Best Legal Department of the Year in Italy in the Compliance category and in 2015 as Regulatory Best Legal Team. Gabriella is a member of the Board of AIGI (the Italian In-House Counsel Association), where she has demonstrated a strong commitment for recognition of the in-house legal status under Italian law. Married to a lawyer, she is the mother of two boys aged 11 and 14.

Nishat Ruiter is General Counsel of TED conferences, a non profit organization that believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. Through creativity, and a deep respect for TED's mission, Nishat's work is centered on ensuring that TED's legal requirements are met through a combination of practical and creative solutions that meets its needs, while still retaining the authentic TED voice across every area where possible. She manages the legal issues with respect to TED's licensing, partnerships, TM, brand protection, TED's code of conduct, data privacy, copyright, transactions and all corporate legal matters. Prior to TED, she worked as Associate General Counsel where she spent ten years in a variety of roles including managing legal issues on all marketing and advertising, M&A integration, and led the North American legal team responsible for the legal review of $1B/year in licensing transactions at CA Technologies. She also worked as Managing Counsel at LivePerson, provided in house counsel legal support to Chubb Insurance, Binary Tree.com and Capco. She is a visiting guest lecturer at Fordham Law School (New York) since 2013, faculty for the Practicing Law Institute, and has served on the Editorial Board of the International In-house Counsel Journal (London). Inspired by a Bahá’í perspective on things, she loves resolving the most complex problems with an elegant solution, but always with coffee on hand. She enjoys music, tennis, hosting Spiritual Cafes in her community to foster meaningful conversations, and finding connectedness with people from all walks of life. She is married and mother of two teenagers. You can follow her on twitter @nishatruiter.

Nicole Kelsey joined Amyris as General Counsel and Secretary in August 2017. Her areas of expertise range from U.S. securities laws, to international M&A and corporate governance. Prior to joining Amyris, she served as General Counsel and Secretary of Criteo, a global leader in commerce marketing, where she built a best-in-class legal department providing commercial, corporate, and compliance services to support the company’s worldwide operations. Previously, Ms. Kelsey was the senior securities lawyer for Metronic, a global leader in medical technology; she served as head M&A attorney for CIT Group, Inc.; was the general counsel of a private merchant bank; and worked for the international conglomerate Vivendi. Before going in-house, Ms. Kelsey practiced with the law firms of White & Case and Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, in Paris and New York. A Fulbright scholar, Ms. Kelsey holds a J.D. from Northwestern University and a B.A. from The Ohio State University, and is admitted to practice law in both New York and Minnesota.

Prior to recently forming Baker Jenner, Simon Jenner was Chief Legal Officer for Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Avion Pharmaceuticals, LLC, which are leaders in several important markets. He has significant experience in complex transactions and litigation, including intellectual property and Lanham Act, risk management, industry regulations, and commercial and corporate matters. Simon is practiced in helping corporate clients minimize legal and regulatory risk while maximizing transaction value. Simon graduated in 1999 from College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, with majors in History (with departmental honors), Economics, and Classics. He graduated in 2003 with a JD/MBA from the Thomas Backus School of Law and Weatherhead School of Management, also at Case Western Reserve University.

Chief corporate lawyer for the worldwide Chubb organization.

Chaim A. Levin is the Chief Legal Officer of Tradition America. ?Mr. Levin has managed important corporate transactions, intellectual property issues, regulatory investigations, employment controversies, corporate governance frameworks, and other matters in the U.S., Central and South America, England, France, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. Mr. Levin has been the Lead Counsel representing part of the Tradition Group in defending complex national investigations by the Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and 14 State Attorney Generals' offices, Mr. Levin has been awarded the 2015 Legend-in-the-Law by the United States Library of Congress, the American Bar Association and the Burton Foundation. Mr. Levin has also received a 2018 First Chair Award.

A proven leader, decision maker and crisis manager with more than 25 years of experience resulting from senior legal positions at a global institutional brokerage and financial technology firm, an international corporate and investment bank, the United States Department of Justice and a leading law firm. Exceptional judgment and integrity, strong communication skills and the demonstrated ability to manage and motivate diverse teams. Broad-based knowledge and experience in numerous substantive areas including litigation, securities, banking, regulatory and internal investigations, ethics and compliance, employment, general corporate, real estate, insurance, and M&A.

Gerald A. Stein is an attorney in the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission, Northeast Region, where he investigates and litigates enforcement actions involving merger and anticompetitive conduct matters in a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining the FTC in 2009, Gerald was counsel at the New York office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he was a member of the Firm’s Litigation Department and Antitrust and Competition Group from 2004 to 2009. From 1997 to 2004, Gerald was a senior associate in the Litigation Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. From 1993 to 1997, Gerald practiced at Bower & Gardner and then Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker. While in private practice, Gerald represented major corporations in a wide range of antitrust actions, including class actions and multidistrict litigation, involving allegations of anticompetitive and deceptive trade practices. He has broad experience representing clients in state and federal actions. Gerald is in the leadership of the American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, currently serving as Vice-Chair of the Content Delivery Committee and a member of the Long Range Planning Committee. His prior positions in leadership include Chair and Vice-Chair of Programs and participation in other task forces. Gerald is on the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association, and is Chair of the Unilateral Content Committee. Gerald frequently writes and speaks on various issues regarding antitrust law and litigation practice. He is an Adjunct Lecturer for Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining in Sports, Master of Science in Sports Business Program at the New York University School of Professional Studies. Gerald earned his J.D., cum laude, from Pace University School of Law, where he served on the Pace Law Review, and earned his B.A. from Tufts University.

As Vice President & General Counsel, Mr. Braz directs all of the day-to-day legal affairs of GFI and its affiliates, including the planning, structuring and negotiation of complex transactions, joint ventures, regulatory and compliance matters and corporate governance. Mr. Braz is a member of GFI’s Executive and Investment Committees and coordinates execution of the Company’s investment strategies. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Braz was the Director of Legal Services for Africa Israel, USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Africa Israel Investments, where he advised the company on all legal matters concerning the company’s U.S. real estate holdings. At Africa Israel, Mr. Braz played a key role on development projects including: 20 Pine- the Collection, a conversion of a high rise office building in Manhattan’s financial district to 409 luxury condominium residences and ground floor retail, the ground-up development of the Marquis, a 67-story luxury condominium and hotel located in downtown Miami and the redevelopment of the Times Square Building. Mr. Braz earned his bachelor’s degree, from Clark University, cum laude with honors in Economics, and received a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Gary has been patent counsel at Google since 2012, focusing on global patent portfolio strategy for the company. Prior to that, he was a partner at the firm of Baker Botts practicing all aspect of intellectual property but specializing in patent litigation. He is a 1982 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a 1990 graduate of the New York University School of Law. For the last twenty years, Gary has been an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching multiple patent-related course. Before becoming an attorney, Gary was an officer in the United States Navy, serving aboard submarines. He is a retired Captain in the Naval Reserves.

Ken Schreiber currently serves as President of HUB International Northeast’s Commercial Lines Division. A seasoned insurance professional with 30 years in the business, he is responsible for the overall Property and Casualty operation for HUB’s Northeast Region. Ken works closely with corporate risk management clients in ensuring the continued delivery of the firm’s services and resources, With over 20 years of experience with International Clients, Ken maintains contact with brokers throughout the world and assists with the creation and maintenance of global insurance programs. Prior to joining HUB, Ken spent 17 years servicing clients at several large regional brokers in New York, including five years working with an international portfolio of clients. He has provided brokerage and risk management services to numerous industries,including large multi-national firms (DaimlerChrysler, MAN Group, Schaeffler Group). Ken holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Hofstra University. Very active in many industry organizations, he sits on a number of Insurer Producer Advisory Councils. Additionally, he is the president of his co-op board and actively volunteers for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Alliance (OCRFA).

Sari Granat is Executive Vice President and General Counsel at IHS Markit, responsible for the company's legal, compliance, regulatory and government affairs, enterprise risk and information security functions. Prior to joining Markit in 2012, Sari was lead counsel and chief administrative officer of TheMarkets.com LLC. She has served in senior legal and strategy positions at media and technology companies including Dow Jones & Company and Kaplan, Inc. Sari holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Alan Konevsky is senior vice president and strategic initiatives counsel at Mastercard. In this role, he has global responsibility for providing legal and strategic judgement, guidance and oversight for mergers and acquisitions transactions, integration of acquired businesses, investment portfolio monitoring and other critical projects. Together with his team, Mr. Konevsky drives execution of Mastercard’s acquisitions, investments and joint ventures in close partnership with colleagues across the company. He joined Mastercard in 2014 as senior managing counsel of the strategic transactions group in the law department. Prior to joining Mastercard, Mr. Konevsky was managing director at Goldman Sachs in London, where he headed legal coverage for private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure investing in Europe, and was the principal deal lawyer responsible for other strategic transactions in the region. Previously, he was special counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell, an international law firm, where he had a broad practice emphasizing international mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate matters, and was based in the firm’s New York and London offices. Mr. Konevsky graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Columbia College in three years, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has been recognized in New York Super Lawyers and as a UK Young Deal Maker of the Year.

Scott serves as Mazars USA’s General Counsel. He directs regulatory affairs, government compliance, practice acquisition, and litigation, and advises management on all legal matters. Scott’s more than 40 years of experience include corporate litigation prevention and management, strategic counseling, professional liability, compliance design and supervision, SEC issues, crisis management, and media relations. He was recognized in 1996 by Accounting Today as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the Accounting Profession. He is invited to speak before bar and accounting associations on various topics, including litigation, arbitration, risk management, litigation risk analysis, cyber-security, use of expert witnesses, and trends in securities fraud class action. Prior to joining Mazars USA as General Counsel in 2008, Scott was General Counsel at BDO USA, LLP, and was Assistant General Counsel at Ernst & Young. He began his legal career as a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer and Wood. Scott graduated from Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Political Science, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Juris Doctorate and Master of Laws (Criminal Justice) from New York University School of Law, and was awarded the Root-Tilden and Jacob Fuchsberg fellowships. He is admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, two federal district courts, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

R. Mark McCareins is the general counsel of the Metals Service Center Institute (www.msci.org). He also is a Clinical Professor in the Strategy Department of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he teaches antitrust and business law. He practiced competition law with Winston and Strawn LLP for over thirty years where he was co-counsel for Respondent Spray-Rite Service Corp. in the referenced matter. He currently is a Clinical Professor in the Strategy Department at Kellogg.

Bruce R. Fox is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary with The Main Street America Group headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Mr. Fox’s duties include state and federal regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, complex transactions, corporate governance and litigation management. After a long career as an insurance defense litigator, handling civil trials and appeals in US state and federal courts, Mr. Fox became in-house counsel with The Main Street America Group, first by managing its staff counsel operations in Massachusetts before moving into a corporate counsel role and eventually becoming general counsel. Mr. Fox spent many years as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts and is the author of several legal articles published in US national law journals.

Daniel Anixt is the owner of Turnbull Consulting LLC which provides consulting services for technology and telecommunications companies. Prior to serving in his current position, Daniel was an Assistant General Counsel at Verizon in Ashburn, Virginia where he successfully negotiated several hundred million dollars worth of technology transactions for cloud, network services, and security solutions offered by Verizon. Before Verizon, Daniel was Vice President and the United States, Asia, and Latin America Division Counsel for Mitel Networks, Inc., a mid-sized Canadian technology and telecommunications system manufacturing company. At Mitel, Mr. Anixt was responsible for all transaction, government contracts, regulatory, and litigation matters in the United States including the management of all patent litigation. Mr. Anixt successfully planned strategy, managed outside counsel, as well as negotiated settlements and license agreements in various patent litigation suits brought by competitors and patent trolls against Mitel. He also planned and managed patent litigation brought by Mitel against one of its competitors that ultimately resulted in a highly favorable settlement for Mitel. Mr. Anixt may be contacted at danixt@yahoo.com and his Linkedin public profile is located on the web at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-anixt/4/a48/b29.

Rimma leads IP Legal support for Technology Agreements - Open Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems, complex multi-party collaborations and consortia: structuring and negotiating agreements for evaluation, development, protection, enforcement, transfer and/or licensing of technology. Rimma's passion is to enable Unilever business with fast and effective technology agreement infrastructure, Rimma's current responsibilities build on her extensive experience as a patent attorney. Prior to her Legal carreer, Rimma was a bench chemist.

Joseph J Bambara CIPP/US Attorney Most recently, Joseph is Of Counsel with withersworldwide.com developing their AI and Blockchain/Crypto practice. Specifically providing guidance on regulatory and governance issues while representing large enterprises , decentralized startups and crypto clients. For affiliate marketing clients he handles privacy policy and risk assessment, as well as mobile and email marketing practices and procedures to self-regulate and maintain compliance with applicable legislation including , HIPAA, CAN/SPAM, TCPA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley ECPA, COPPA and all related US privacy legislation CCPA as well as the European Union's Data Protection Directive and GDPR.. He has handled all interactions, inquiries with FTC. He has developed HIPAA compliant policies and workflow for prescription copay marketing, refill and adherence program. He is experienced with eDiscovery software and procedures. Entrepreneur/Technologist with architectural and software development experience with cyber security, banking, financial, manufacturing, health care and legal applications for Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Federal Reserve Bank, Viacom, Cablevision, Pfizer, Merck and Sloan Kettering Cancer Care. Currently architecting AI, IoT and Blockchain for atyourgate.com Educator/Speaker who has produced and delivered over 50 CLE courses and corporate presentations covering the intersection of technology and the law including: artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybercrime, cybersecurity, eDiscovery, privacy, mobile devices, social media and the internet of things. Author of ten plus books for McGraw Hill and other publishers on intersection of law and technology: mobile, internet, blockchain development and related technologies. Most recently, in 2019 he authored "Law and Technology: The Future is Now" and “AI, IoT and the Blockchain Using the Power of Three to create Business, Legal and Technical Solutions”. In 2018 he authored "Blockchain: A Practical Guide to developing Business, Law and Technology Solutions". See also https://muckrack.com/joseph-bambara/articles Admissions NY State 1981, US Supreme Court 1993 Courses/Lectures • Lectured as adjunct faculty at CCNY School of Engineering , Computer Science Department Instructor for over 50 CLE’s (not all courses are listed) • What You Need to Know About DeFi: Decentralized Finance and the Law NYCLA, September 2020 • AI, IoT, Blockchain: Business/Legal Ramifications NYCLA, April 2020 • Law and Technology: The Future is Now NYCLA, October 2019 • What Lawyers Need to Know About Cryptocurrency National Constitution Center, April 2019 • Ethics and Technology: What Lawyers MUST Know to Protect Client Data NYCLA, December 2018 • The Law and Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cryptocurrencies Lawline, March 2017 • eDiscovery: Trends and TAR Lawline, April 2016. Education CCNY School of Engineering • BS Computer Science • MS Computer Science Brooklyn Law School Juris Doctorate