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| Gina M. Grandolfo |
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| George R. Halsey |
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| Michael P. Mount |
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| Kristin L. Wetenkamp |
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Gina M. Grandolfo is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Santa Clara University School of Law. Ms. Grandolfo has fourteen years of experience advising Fortune 500 corporations and start-ups, as well as small and medium sized businesses. She has spent over ten years advising high technology clients and teaches Technology Licensing at Santa Clara. Prior to opening her firm, she was General Counsel at Cataphora, Inc., Assistant General Counsel at Hyundai Electronics America, Inc. and Senior Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Before going in house, she was an Associate at law firms in Sacramento and San Francisco. Her practice focuses on intellectual property licensing and business law.
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George R. Halsey counsels start-up companies and individuals in all aspects of technology licensing, marketing and distribution. As a former General Counsel of SunExpress, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, an Associate General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Honeywell, Inc., he was a lead legal negotiator in technology acquisition, licensing, distribution, trans-national transactions and multi-party tax leveraged transactions including transactions in excess of $250 million. Elected chairperson of the Boston Bar Association, Computer Law and Internet Committee, he is a speaker on topics of intellectual property law and legal issues in the life cycle of technology products. He was a founding member of the American Committee for Interoperable Systems (ACIS) which influenced changes in US, European and Japanese copyright law culminating in international treaties promoted by the World Intellectual Property Organization portions of which are included in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. He was a member of the legal steering committee that launched the Infiniband Trade Association, (IBM, Sun, Dell, HP and Intel) that defined new standards for high bandwidth interoperable systems. In addition to technology legal matters, he has successfully resolved a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, a European Commission anti-dumping claim of significant magnitude and a number of high level executive employment issues. Mr. Halsey started his legal career as a “first chair” trial and appellate lawyer on numerous civil and criminal jury trials and seven precedent setting appellate cases. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned his JD from the Boston University School of Law.
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| Michael P. Mount has extensive experience in business transactions, copyright, trademarks, communications and media, entertainment. Previously he was Senior Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc., (30,000 employees) and an Associate Attorney at Cray, Ware & Friedrich (500 - 1000 attorneys). Michael received his BA at the University of California, Berkeley and his JD at the University of California, Berkeley. |
Kristin L. Wetenkamp provides legal services to businesses in the technology, financial, and government sectors. She has experience in litigation and transactional matters, and has worked in both private practice and a corporate law department. Before becoming a legal consultant, Kristin was Senior Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and an associate attorney at Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor & Pascoe, PC in Colorado, and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Oliver, LLC in California. Her practice has focused primarily on intellectual property and technology, employment, and business law matters. She had the unique opportunity to second-chair an Americans with Disabilities appeal presented to the United States Supreme Court. Kristin was a contributor to the Public Key Infrastructure Assessment Guidelines published by the American Bar Association. Kristin received her JD from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where she was active in international law issues, and has a BA in Middle East Studies and Arabic from the University of Utah. She served in the US Army and the Utah Army National Guard as an Arabic linguist and Military Intelligence Officer.
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