Linda Netsch, Principal, Align Consulting; Lecturer - Harvard and Stanford Law Schools
Linda Netsch is the founder of Align Consulting and teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She works with business, legal, and government professionals throughout the United States, Europe, The Middle East, and Latin America. Her projects vary from helping The Citadel integrate women into its student body, to mediating business disputes, to helping companies develop new corporate strategies. Prior to starting her own business, Linda practiced law at an entertainment law firm in Los Angeles and worked as an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Attorney at the US Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C. As an ADR attorney, her duties involved increasing the use and effectiveness of negotiation, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution processes within the Postal Service. She also mediated federal contract and employment disputes and facilitated sessions on changing federal rules and regulations. Before private law practice, Linda served as an officer in the US Air Force - first as a communications-electronics program manager for a NATO satellite project and then as an attorney practicing criminal prosecution and labor law. She was on the faculty of the Air Force Academy for four years, teaching business law and negotiation/conflict resolution. Linda has a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

David Tollen, Attorney Partner, Adeli & Tollen, LLP; Author (The Tech Contract Handbook)
David Tollen is a founding partner of Adeli & Tollen. He is the author of the American Bar Association's manual on technology contracts, The Tech Contracts Handbook (ABA Publishing 2010), and also the author of The Tech Contracts Pocket Guide (iUniverse 2006). He focuses on technology agreements, intellectual property counseling, information security, industrial and commercial design transactions, and electronic commerce. His practice includes patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets law. Mr. Tollen has broad experience with international transactions, complex software integration agreements, patent licenses, and procurement contracts for financial institutions, among other types of deals. He is a frequent speaker on IP and IT issues. Before co-founding Adeli & Tollen, Mr. Tollen served as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company, as Vice President of Business Development for a profitable technology start-up, and as an associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP where his practice included patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret litigation.

John Soper, Founder and Senior Consultant, New Paradigms Marketing Group
John Soper is the founder of New Paradigms Marketing Group in 1994, where he has helped numerous Silicon Valley companies find creative business and marketing strategies to bring cutting edge technologies to market., including early Internet to current digital and mobile technologies. He has delivered and implemented successful and innovative business strategies for F100 companies, including Sun Microsystems, SGI, NEC and Siemens; as well as a host of startups, including Business Logic System Business Logic Systems, Instancia, CineLink, Mirage Networks, Escendo, and CRM Alliance. He has also worked in alliances with and provided professional development courseware to many of the key Silicon Valley technology companies, including HP, Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Apple. Prior to founding NPMG, John led key marketing and business development innovations at Sequent Computer, CableData and Prime Computer. Prior to that he broke new ground in developing university-commercial sector technology transfer relationships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. John is currently the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASSP-SV). John received a BA degree at Ohio Wesleyan University and an MA degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan.