| summary I have been a lawyer for 35 years and am currently licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and before Commonwealth and federal courts. I have negotiated and written many hundreds of commercial agreements, some with the largest companies in the country. I am also a technology innovator and business leader; a strategist, technologist, marketer, entrepreneur and Certified Business Architect®. I have counseled a variety of Fortune 500 clients on digital strategy and tactics and have built my own companies by assembling technologies to solve business problems. I am currently a partner at Thematix, a New York / Silicon Valley boutique consultancy specializing in semantic technologies and business architecture, providing solutions to major banks, pharmaceutical and travel companies. Experience |  | General Counsel Online. Founder and Principal Attorney. Online, on-demand legal services for the start-up and small businessperson. Fixed price and subscription-based affordability. A re-formulation of the legal business model for the online milieu.
| |  | Founder and partner of Thematix, a business architecture and semantic technology consultancy, serving financial services, travel, retail and entertainment. Consult to a wide variety of fortune 1000 clients on business transformation; most recently, Boeing, Merck, Nordea (the largest bank in Scandinavia), Sotheby's (auctions), Disney and Wells Fargo Securities. | |  | Founded and built a New York-based, venture-backed, travel booking system – Portaga, the first of its kind multi-supplier-connect that used the Outlook and Google calendars for drag-and-drop travel management. It was also the first mobile booking engine. Aimed at underserved small to mid-size business market. | | 
| Co-founded and built a public company -- US Interactive (Nasdaq: USITQ), a 'digital agency' to Fortune 500 clientele, such as American Express, UPS, RCA, Toshiba and Royal Caribbean. Built and ran strategic consulting group and later New York operations. | |  | Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, teaching a graduate school course in systems and business modeling, covering everything from philosophical foundations to org theory to UML. Students were in a grad program on communications, culture and technology. | | 
| Started a career in digital technology at Prodigy (an IBM, Sears, CBS company and precursor to the internet). Senior Counsel and Product Director. Wrote and filed a pioneer patent. Designed a B2B online service working with D&B and Mead Data Central. | |  | US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Ground-breaking reports on technology and intellectual property. |
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