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Allison Bender is currently an attorney at law firm, Wilson Sonsini in the cybersecurity and privacy practice. Prior to joining Wilson, she served at the Department of Homeland Security, serving as a senior cybersecurity attorney in the Office of the General Counsel. Allison is also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, noted public speaker at conferences such as BlackHat & International Association of Privacy Professionals, and is also named one of the "women in CyberSecurity to follow on Twitter" by Cybercrime Magazine.

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PATENT TROLLS (3) - The Patent Office is a Friend to Greedy Attorneys w/Lee Cheng

chris.sands@techgc.co (TechGC Inc.) — Mon, 3 Feb 2020 08:00:10 +0000

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Lee Cheng is an attorney and civil rights activist with a long history of achievement in business, law and public policy. He is presently a Partner at Maschoff-Brennan, a leading technology-focused law firm with offices in Utah and California, and the co-Founder and President of Symmetry IP, an organization focused on fighting patent abuse.

Lee is a two-time winner (2014 and 2016) of the National Law Journal’s America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel, the inaugural recipient of the Champion of Equal Opportunity Education Rights Award of the Asian American Coalition for Education (2018), and has been given numerous other awards for innovation and excellence in the practice of law.

He has worked for well known international law firms like Latham & Watkins, and as a C-level executive in global, multibillion dollar companies like Newegg.com and Gibson Brands (the owner of Gibson Guitars). While Chief Legal Officer of Newegg, he developed a reputation as one of the foremost opponents of abusive patent litigation, leading Newegg to victory against over 30 claimants and showing that resisting legal extortion could work both strategically and fiscally.

Lee has been deeply involved in business and community groups, including the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Legal Foundation, the Board of Directors of Publius Lex, the Board of Industry Leaders of the Consumer Technology Association (the largest technology focused trade association in the world and the operator of the Consumer Electronics Show) and the Board of Trustees of the CTA Foundation. In 1994, he co-founded and still serves as Secretary and as a Director of the Asian American Legal Foundation. He previously served on the Boards of the Association of Corporate Counsel-Southern California Chapter, the Harvard Club of San Francisco, the Lowell High School Alumni Association, the Organization of Chinese Americans-San Francisco Chapter, and AACE.

He is a graduate of Harvard University (History of Science,

magna cum laude

) and UC Berkeley School of Law.

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AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (3) - The Legal Secrets to Building an AV Business (w/ Matt Gipple)

chris.sands@techgc.co (TechGC Inc.) — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:00:45 +0000

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BLOCKCHAIN(3) - Crypto Has a Usability Problem, but There May Be a Community Solution (w/ Brynly Llyr)

chris.sands@techgc.co (TechGC Inc.) — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:53:59 +0000

PATENT TROLLS(2) - You Need Street Cred to Shake the Patents Mafia (w/ Ken Carter)

chris.sands@techgc.co (TechGC Inc.) — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:47:21 +0000

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES(2) - The Future of Transportation is Multimodal (w/ Susan Shaheen)

chris.sands@techgc.co (TechGC Inc.) — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:12:03 +0000

ABOUT THE GUEST

Susan Shaheen is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Susan has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on the energy and environmental aspects of transportation from UC Davis and an M.S. in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester. She has authored 67 journal articles, over 120 reports and proceedings articles, and has co-edited two books. She is working on a third book on Shared Automated Vehicles to be published in 2020.

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BLOCKCHAIN(2) - The Global Financial System is More Fragile than We Think (w/ Brian Brooks)

chris.sands@techgc.co (TechGC Inc.) — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:00:08 +0000

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Brian Brooks is a TechGC member and was also the keynote at our most recent National Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. Brian is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbabse - one of the largest digital currency platforms in the world, valued at over 8 Billion. Prior to Coinbase, he was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Fannie Mae - the largest financial institution measured by it's assets of 3.2 Trillion dollars. Brian is also an investor and advisor at numerous FinTech companies, including Andreesen Horrowitz's Fly Homes, Spring Labs, Earn Up and Grasshopper Bank.

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