Jiyeon Yang is an accomplished commercial attorney with 20+ years’ success in enterprise and consumer technology.  She has extensive experience as a technology transactions and supply chain in-house counsel, including SaaS, enterprise software, professional services, marketing, privacy, and international operations. Her key skills include:

●    Strategic negotiation of high-value enterprise contracts.
●    Expert analysis of key commercial, privacy, and IP issues in enterprise and product development deals.
●    Support enterprise sales teams to meet or exceed fiscal year goals.
●    Strategic business and legal guidance to large corporate teams, including formal/informal training. 
●    Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills, in executive and group settings. 
●    Set the business and legal policies to enable transactional field attorneys and business desks. 

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Jiyeon's legal services include the following:  
●    Assistance on commercial transactions and negotiations on software licenses and consulting services; 
●    Internal investigations;
●    Preparing contract templates for software license sales and consulting services;
●    Preparing a guidelines playbook for lawyers and business clients for commercial transactions; 
●    Managing and expanding relationships with strategic partners;
●    International operations;
●    Privacy by design and data security for product development and marketing activities;
●    Assistance to small to medium companies to grow their business in scale; 
●    Korean government outreach; and 
●    Act as a trusted legal and business advisor to the executives
 

Work Experience 

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• Arch & Lake, Bellevue, WA (May 2024 to Present)

• VMware, Inc. & Broadcom Inc. (Sept. 2013 - Feb. 2024)

• Microsoft Corp. (Jan. 2011 - Sept. 2013)

• Microsoft Korea, Inc. (Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2011)

• President of BSA, the Software Alliance, Korea Chapter (2008 - 2011)

• Bae, Kim & Lee, LLP (Jan. 2001 - Jan. 2003)

• Dorsey & Whitney, LLP (Aug. 1999 - Dec. 2000)

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