Cheryl is a Senior Counsel on the Corporate Legal team at Dropbox, Inc. Prior to joining Dropbox, Cheryl was a Corporate Associate at Reed Smith LLP, where her practice focused on general corporate matters, venture capital and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactional matters. Cheryl received her B.A. from UC Davis and J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Kavita Aggarwal is VP, Legal at Coupa Software, Inc., headquartered in San Mateo, CA. At Coupa, Kavita is responsible for product counseling, commercial transactions, employment law, and all things IP. Kavita started her career as a patent attorney, and worked as a patent prosecution and strategy associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Palo Alto before starting her in-house legal career as Patent Counsel at Rambus. Kavita received her JD and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
Jaya K. Reddy is a committed family law practitioner at Hoge Fenton. Her practice focuses on high asset marital dissolutions, prenuptial/post-marital agreements, and custody disputes. She earned her B.A. from UCLA, and her J.D. from Santa Clara Law, where she served as President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA). Jaya is a Bay Area native, 2017 APABA Silicon Valley Equal Justice Scholarship Recipient, and current chair of the Small Firm/Solo Practitioner Committee of APABA Silicon Valley.
Lindsey Pho is an associate in her firm’s Intellectual Property and Corporate practice groups. She provides transactional work, including drafting both internal and third-party agreements. She also counsels her clients regarding intellectual property issues, trademarks and copyrights, and employment matters. Lindsey has years of experience in corporate litigation, in both federal and state courts, involving a wide spectrum of matters including patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, wage and hour violations, breach of contract disputes and related tort actions.
Growing up and working in the Silicon Valley has provided Lindsey with a unique opportunity to work with many innovative clients, including those in the High Tech, entertainment, apparel, e-commerce, and food & beverage industries.
She is on the Board of Directors for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley, the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys, and the Vietnamese American Professional Women of Silicon Valley. When not serving her clients or her community, you can find Lindsey hiking, biking, snowboarding, skiing, or traveling the world – she has been to 30 countries. In April 2016, she became a certified yoga instructor.
Andrew is a startup and venture capital attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Andrew is a Silicon Valley native and a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. Prior to his legal career, Andrew was a computer programmer working on solving the problem of broken links on the internet.
Robert Chou is a transactional tax associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto. His practice focuses on the tax aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions and renewable energy project financing and structuring. Robert received his J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Thomas is a senior patent counsel at Align Technology, where he works on patent portfolio building, IP diligence, and IP strategy for products such as Invisalign aligners and associated treatment software. Thomas received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas, where he served as President of the Asian Law Students Association and as an editor on the Board of the Texas Law Review. Thomas also received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics, both from the University of Texas at Austin.
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