J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980

A.B., Columbia University, 1976

Experience:

March 2000-present Management consultant providing assistance to Internet start-ups. Services include strategic consulting, assistance with corporate structure and operations, business plan drafting, and positioning for acquisition, venture funding or IPO. Clients include Moving.com and Netsetgoods.com.

1995-2000 Net Quotient Consulting Group, President and CEO. I founded this Internet consulting firm as a business unit of my former employer, Pencom Systems (it was originally known as Pencom Web Works). The mission was to assist Fortune 1000 companies and well-financed start ups in developing business applications using web technology. Clients included CVS Pharmacies, GE Capital, Citibank and New York Life. Public sites we developed included www.finance.com, www.smartpromo.com, www.floodcert.com. I grew the business from inception to twelve percent net profitability and a thirteen million dollar run rate (2000 target 17 million). In 1999 we sold the business to Applicom Software Industries, an Israeli company, and I continued as CEO until March 2000.

1990-1995 Pencom Systems Incorporated, Vice President of Operations. Pencom is a recruiting and contract programming firm which founded several consulting divisions for eventual spin-out between 1989 and 1999. My responsibilities included hiring and firing, supervision of IT and accounting, employee motivation and benefits, structuring compensation, negotiating bank loans, leases, partnership and client agreements, participation in the board of directors, strategic issues and marketing.

I supervised the investment banks and outside counsel in taking another Pencom business public, Concero (Nasdaq: CERO) and served a three year term on the board of directors of that company.

As an internal management consultant, I designed and supervised development of the Concero project management system as well as initial requirements for the software development methodology.

I also served as General Counsel of Pencom and Concero, involved in all corporate governance issues, contract negotiation and drafting, intellectual property, and management of outside counsel in litigation and immigration matters.

1980-1990 Private practice of law, specializing in computer-related legal matters. During most of this time I was in solo practice; from 1984-1987 I was a partner in Meatto, Russo, Burke and Wallace. Clients included software development, consulting, contract programming and software product firms. The matters I handled included general corporate and commercial legal advice on the structuring and daily operations of computer-related businesses; drafting of complex agreements, including shareholders' agreements, software licenses and fixed bid software development contracts, transactional work such as sale of business assets and software copyrights, intellectual property work including copyright and trademark filings and advice, and litigation (I was first chair in more than forty commercial and computer-related trials, hearings and arbitrations.)

Publications:

I have written several books and numerous articles on computer and Internet-related policy and legal matters, including the following:

Books

(with Mark Mangan) Sex, Laws and Cyberspace: Freedom and Censorship on the Electronic Frontier (Henry Holt 1996)

(with Rees Morrison) Syslaw: The System Operators' Legal Manual (LLM Press 1986)

Understanding Software Law (Alfred Publishing, 1984)

Articles

"The Specter of Pervasiveness", Policy Briefing, 1998.

"Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity and the Internet", Policy Briefing, 1999.

(With Michael Green) "Bridging the Metaphor Gap: The Internet and Freedom of Speech", Seattle University Law Review, 1997.