Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Orinda

I am a practicing attorney in Orinda, working with businesses and entrepreneurial clients. I advise on corporate, legal, financial and strategic matters. I have acted as an officer, director and general counsel to many start-up and emerging businesses.

I have also participated in an Officer or Director role in a number of companies ranging in size up to $225,000,000.00 per year in revenue. For the most part my experience is in privately held and `family' run businesses.

I started my first company in 1984 and sold it in 1986. In 1986, I started a company that made acid and solvent reprocessors for use in the semiconductor industry in order to solve an environmental problem; we sold the company in 1993.

I have acted as an Officer or Director for a number of companies and non-profit public benefit companies such as the Alameda County Food Bank. I have also been on the Board of VIP Mentors, Inc. for 23 years, a statewide group that mentors at-risk youth.