Vice President, Corp. Affairs; General Counsel; Corp. Secretary

Recognized by the San Francisco Daily Journal as “one of the country’s preeminent experts on open source software licensing,” and named as a Northern California Super Lawyer® for 2006, Jason supervises MontaVista Software’s worldwide legal and corporate policies and practices, and develops and implements the company’s intellectual property strategy.

Jason speaks nationally and internationally, and is a published author on open source licensing and the GPL.  Jason also regularly lectures at law schools on both technology licensing and international business transactions.  He is a founder of Open Bar (www.open-bar.org), a not-for-profit organization founded to educate legal professionals in the emerging arena of open source/free software. He is also a contributing columnist to the Enterprise Open Source Journal.

Jason was previously a VP and General Counsel for Advanced Data Exchange, an electronic document exchange company, and also practiced law with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), where he was a member of the Corporate and Securities Group and the Life Sciences Group. At WSGR, Jason focused on technology licensing, financings, and mergers & acquisitions, and was responsible for many public and privately held clients concentrated in the high technology and biotechnology arenas.

Jason has a J.D. from the University of California, Davis, where he was an editor of the U.C. Davis Law Review, and has degrees in economics and English from Stanford University.