Kevin Keller
Legal and Operations | Investor | Advisor | co-Founder | Board Member
Sunnyvale, California
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2024
Legal Counsel (Head of Legal)
2024
Legal and operational support for the development and deployment of useful general intelligence agents powered by multi-modal AI models. Responsible for regulatory, intellectual property, privacy, commercial and operational support for development and go to market teams. Achievements include development of agreements for commercialization of AI powered agents as a service and launching a patent program to protect inventions fundamental to the operation of AI powered agentic systems.
2015
Angel Investor
2015
Early investor in a range of industries from food science and health to space stations and solar cells.
1998
Co-Founder and Member of the Board
1998
Co-founded non-profit tech incubator operating at many of the top grad schools in the U.S.
2022 - 2024
General Counsel
2022 - 2024
Led legal and compliance functions for Series C startup focused on travel, e-commerce and fintech. Managed litigation, employment, commercial and go to market support. Supported brand transition and related trademark filings and domain purchases. Completed 3 part Series C fundraising and secondary offering, oversaw multiple layoffs, supported sale of e-commerce business, advised board on privacy, security and employment matters.
2021 - 2022
Head of Product Legal
2021 - 2022
Hired, developed and managed product counsel legal team supporting marketplace, ads, enterprise solution, hardware solutions and gig-working/shopper.
2019 - 2021
Director & Associate General Counsel, Product
2019 - 2021
Led the legal team supporting Facebooks growth, connectivity and social impact. Lead counsel for cross-product integrations.
2008 - 2019
AGC & Director of Legal - Devices & Services
2008 - 2019
Built Amazon's legal function to support hardware development and acquisition, including all Amazon consumer electronic products, Amazon Go and Amazon consumer robotics. Advised cross-company on patent licensing, operations,supply chain and contract and contracting process simplification.
2005 - 2008
Attorney - OEM software licensing and Hardware/semiconductor development and manufacture
2005 - 2008
Led support for custom silicon development and manufacture for Xbox, Zune and other Microsoft products; led development and OEM licensing program for Microsoft IPTV.
2003 - 2005
Senior Technology Transactions Associate
2003 - 2005
IP/Commercial transactions for technology companies in all industries.
2002 - 2003
Technology Counsel
2002 - 2003
IP/Commercial transactions, compliance management and trademark support.